Beta has been out for a few days now. Has anyone actually tried the Music app and seen any difference in performance?
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I specifically turned off Sync because of this. A good chunk of my music is from other sources ("Included digital download" are my 3 favourite wrods), a good chunk of my music is not on iTunes, and I LOATHE having to do EVERYTHING on my phone when it comes to creating playlists.
I barely use Apple Music as is; so long as I can still actually PURCHASE my music (because I DO.NOT.STREAM, FFS stop pigeon-holing me into one, maybe 2 genres), then I'm good.
Things I would love? When I create a playlist, let me choose a default sort/view setting, rather than making me remove artwork, artist & album, and then showing track numbers.
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In other words, same awful interface, but with the ability to push crappy recommendations and thinly disguised ads for Apple "services" faster than ever!
You say that like that's a bad thing. 🤣
Even if it's not the most "elegant" interface, iTunes made a lot of sense for people who like to manage their own music and podcasts. I've kept my home mac on Mojave specifically to avoid Apple's newer media apps, but I do need to move to a newer OS for other reasons. When I move to a new version of macOS on my Mac, I'll be moving my iTunes environment to a Windows machine.
That's literally what they have done. It's all native now.
Oh you really really REALLY don't want to be using iTunes on Windows. I run iTunes on Monterey, but I stick to the web interface on Windows.
According to some sites this is already built and in the beta version. I'm seeing small improvements (no complete reload of the first three tabs - listen now, browse and radio) but overall not a massive improvement - yet....
I agree I feel like apple music has made significant steps towards having a better curated playlists, but the app itself is slow and lacking what I believe to be a lot of basic features that spotify has had for literal years.
Are you aware of an alternative Music app I could try that is able to support dolby and Apple Music library? I know there are quite a few for iOS but cannot find anything for Mac
This guys found a way to bring iTunes up to Big Sur, might work for Monterey as well, but I did not tested it
GitHub - cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive: Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve.
Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve. - ...
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Works perfectly on Monterey, but not for Apple Silicon unfortunatelyThis guys found a way to bring iTunes up to Big Sur, might work for Monterey as well, but I did not tested it
GitHub - cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive: Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve.
Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve. - ...
SwiftUI is not ready for prime time. And I’m not sure if It ever will be. Using it is a huge paradigm shift. The documentation for it is abysmal, and designing the whole UI in code, rather than visually with Interface Builder like you do with Appkit is a huge step backwards.
And It doesn’t really make it much easier when writing cross-platform code. Too many things don’t work the same. Too many gotchas.
I’m not sure what apple are thinking TBH
It is a paradigm shift, yes, but in a good direction. And you can still build your interfaces visually using the Canvas. SwiftUI just simplifies development and state handling dramatically.
Unlikely. They'll want to have as broad backward support as they can to keep subscribers. Also, while I know nothing about JET, if it's a web technology there would be nothing in the code that would require the new architecture or be handled inherently better by it.
I would bet money that it's at least not backward compatible in the initial release.
With newest Monterey beta, my Music app is freezing up (beachball, silence) at random.
Yep - latest release isn't any better. Maybe they are waiting for the next OS in June? HD660s awesome headphones BTW...
It's worse than ever! The cursor jumps out of the search field as you type, and it frequently crashes when searching. on my M1 MBP it doesn't track the screen position of the pointer properly, and plays a song different from the one that I double-click to play (it doesn't do this on my 2019 Retina 5K iMac). AirPlay frequently doesn't work with my HomePods - the animation shows that it is playing the song, but the sound doesn't come through the HomePods. Ugh! Is anyone QAing this thing?
Sorry to awaken an old thread!
It’s not just me …. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/05/24/swiftui-in-2022/
Hopefully Apple will announce some major improvements to SwiftUI at WWDC from tomorrow
Well we still don't have that native app...
It's a native rendering of the Apple Music backend. Anything AM related that was rendered as a webview before is now much more responsive.
Really? As of when "Monterey" ?
It makes no difference then, it's still slow and sluggish. Takes too long to search and takes too long to start playing tracks.
I'd really like the speed from clicking play on a track to it's actually starting to be faster. If I want to very quickly skip through a search result it's laboursome - that was the one thing Spotify had right, it felt like every track in their library was downloaded to my desktop.
This sometimes happens on iOS as well to be fair - sometimes stuff starts quite quickly other times it seems to freeze and you have to stop and try again or skip through the track.