I love what apple music is trying to be and I have faith it will only improve, but the bugs and flaws are making it harder and harder to love right now.
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Apple Focused on Improving Apple Music Ahead of Android Launch
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I would settle being able to synchronize my iTunes playlist and podcasts with my Android phone. I'd rather not upload them to Google Music as a workaround.
My girlfriend said Apple Music was "****" and that she was going back to Spotify. Then I found out her biggest complaint was the fact she couldn't stream music over cellular, so I enabled it for her in settings.
After that, she said she's going to stick with it! I asked her about all the features, as she's not a tech-nut like me, and doesn't have a pro-Apple bias:
"Do you use the New tab?" "Not really."
"Do you use For You?" "Only at the beginning, to rebuild my music collection as a lot was missing from Spotify."
"Do you use Connect?" "Only to keep up with All Time Low news." (Her favourite band.)
"Do you use Radio?" "Yeah, but it's annoying you can only see what's next. On Spotify you can see further along in the playlist."
It seems that Apple Music isn't as bad as people thought. Maybe it's classic Apple: First-gen product not being that great. Once the kinks are worked out, it'll be awesome.
After that, she said she's going to stick with it! I asked her about all the features, as she's not a tech-nut like me, and doesn't have a pro-Apple bias:
"Do you use the New tab?" "Not really."
"Do you use For You?" "Only at the beginning, to rebuild my music collection as a lot was missing from Spotify."
"Do you use Connect?" "Only to keep up with All Time Low news." (Her favourite band.)
"Do you use Radio?" "Yeah, but it's annoying you can only see what's next. On Spotify you can see further along in the playlist."
It seems that Apple Music isn't as bad as people thought. Maybe it's classic Apple: First-gen product not being that great. Once the kinks are worked out, it'll be awesome.
I really love Apple Music. When I had Spotify I only listened to playlists I created myself or from friends on Spotify (missing feature in Music). The curated playlists on Apple Music is brilliant. I now not only listen to music that I already know but also to new music that match my taste. I check at least 3 times a day what playlist Apple Music are offering to me. I never listen to Beats 1 and Connect is disabled (replaced by Playlists) in the music app.
I have 6 family members that feels the same about this and we are going to pay for the family plan.
There are some homework to do for Apple. I have iTunes Match and have a music library, mostly songs from local singers and bands, without a global presence and most probably they never will be, and I'd like to share that music with my family members. Currently we cannot do this or I need to connect with my Apple ID on those devices means we will have the same playlists and we noticed already that you cannot listen with the same Apple ID at the same time.
Also, I want my iTunes library to be separated from Music. If I create a playlist in Music I don't want the album covers from the song to appear on my iTunes library (album cover view). My iTunes library (with the local cd's) looks like a mess and makes it difficult to find.
Hope Apple fix them both. Also, waiting for the Sonos app for the extra convenience. I am currently using my Play 5 wired with my iPhone.
I have 6 family members that feels the same about this and we are going to pay for the family plan.
There are some homework to do for Apple. I have iTunes Match and have a music library, mostly songs from local singers and bands, without a global presence and most probably they never will be, and I'd like to share that music with my family members. Currently we cannot do this or I need to connect with my Apple ID on those devices means we will have the same playlists and we noticed already that you cannot listen with the same Apple ID at the same time.
Also, I want my iTunes library to be separated from Music. If I create a playlist in Music I don't want the album covers from the song to appear on my iTunes library (album cover view). My iTunes library (with the local cd's) looks like a mess and makes it difficult to find.
Hope Apple fix them both. Also, waiting for the Sonos app for the extra convenience. I am currently using my Play 5 wired with my iPhone.
Make all the changes you want, but if you're not playable on my PS4 while I play Destiny, you're useless to me. Spotify wins.
i went back to Spotify because its nearly impossible to find any good playlists without flipping through a billion sub-menus. i also do not understand why i can keep making the same song available for offline listening when it is already offline. oh and why are some songs not available in an album, like on the latest The Weeknd album but when you search for the song itself you can get it
I'm afraid I'm all still for Spotify. It's simply the better app. So for the moment auto-renewal is disabled.
What I dislike in Apple Music is:
What I dislike in Apple Music is:
- When I like a song (star or heart it) it doesn't end up in a playlist to find later. For the moment liking music is purely for algorithmic reasons it seems, not to mark it as something you want to keep.
- The UI is a confusing mess with mostly pointless content features set as the primary sections (Connect, Radio, New). My music is most important to me, other music is secondary so the primary sections should still remain as Artists, Albums, Playlists etc.
- Like many others here my playlists have been befuddled and destroyed. Some are empty, some are duplicated, some are empty duplicates, some have half the items they had before. What the hell caused this.
- Local songs I had before on the device are no longer offline and now need to be downloaded again as DRM versions which I have no interest in.
- The ability to shuffle all songs or shuffle an artists collection is gone. It was actually in the old app and it's been nicked.
Apple Music is too complicated and not user friendly, it needs to be made a lot simpler.
Can anyone tell me if you can shuffle your up next list on Apple Music.
Can anyone tell me if you can shuffle your up next list on Apple Music.
You could turn off cellular data for the music app if it's going through your data.
I hope that "cleaning up" a few things includes allowing me to easily see what I personally own vs what I added to "My Music" via Apple Music.
There is definitely something screwy with the download offline functionality. I've had a really hard time with getting my playlists to be available offline on the subway. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I never know until I'm underground.
Other than that, I really like it.
Other than that, I really like it.
What? There are people that want to filter out explicit songs? Why would anybody want this? The Apple censorship is already bad enough. Must be a US-thing I guess?
29 days until my free trial ends. Not holding my breath for massive improvements. The one I noticed was shorter time to start playing music, which is hardly a huge achievement, Spotify always plays my choices a second after double-click. Curated playlists they suggest to me tend to have at least a third of tracks I already know, and after AM suggested I listen to Celine Dion I realised that they have no clue about my taste whatsoever. Spotify, which is not integrated with iTunes, serves me weekly playlists that are 90% new music, music that I actually like, with (this is a pattern) one song out of 30 that I have no time for. My library hasn't been ruined because it's too big for iCloud, but I'm not stupid enough to switch iCloud on when they expand to 100k tracks next week (?). Sorry, Apple, I wanted you to be great (like many people in this thread), but you aren't. Goodbye.
Ping should have been a button in iTunes where you could plug in Twitter and/or Facebook and click Ping and it would post your now playing status to those networks. That's all Ping should have been, and I'd say that would have been successful.
Now i understand what all the issues are relating to "deleting my music"
I had albums to apple music, but most of the songs are removed over time... thus, i'm left with "incomplete albums" and its not what i added, despite they are still in catalog... Apple just decided to remove songs from playlist.
Rather than wine, i go to the top, to be prepared for yet another battle Apple.. Since i already have a case, i know it will be escalated, this shouldn't take long
when i complain, Apple does listen, u can be sure of that one.
Apple music is good for what is does, no one should have to sift though albums just to re-add songs, to fix up Apple's issue.
I had albums to apple music, but most of the songs are removed over time... thus, i'm left with "incomplete albums" and its not what i added, despite they are still in catalog... Apple just decided to remove songs from playlist.
Rather than wine, i go to the top, to be prepared for yet another battle Apple.. Since i already have a case, i know it will be escalated, this shouldn't take long
when i complain, Apple does listen, u can be sure of that one.Apple music is good for what is does, no one should have to sift though albums just to re-add songs, to fix up Apple's issue.
TV?
Oh no! What will Apple, Taylor Swift and Dr. Dre do without you?
My trial ends at the end of the month and I won't be subscribing. I'm not paying for a broken service that Apple has had 2+ months to fix. Even Apple realizes that few will actually subscribe ("Schusser assures that Apple is only interested in the long-term picture for Apple Music, rather than constantly measuring how many users are signing up.")
Apple under Mr Jobs truly fought to keep "it just works" relevant.
Mr Cook has not continued the fight. Apple found themselves behind on Maps, a watch and streaming, set top box... Instead of waiting until they were truly ready and able to stamp it with "it just works" they release prematurely in order to not lose too badly on market and mind share.
Mr Cook has not continued the fight. Apple found themselves behind on Maps, a watch and streaming, set top box... Instead of waiting until they were truly ready and able to stamp it with "it just works" they release prematurely in order to not lose too badly on market and mind share.
My requests to improve Apple Music from a GUI standpoint:
Include an album artwork thumbnail in the mini player (it looks really dull without it, especially on the iPad since it used to have it there).
Also in the mini player (iPhone version): have more controls by simply swiping left or right on it.
Better screen optimization for the iPad: Full screen Album Art, etc.
Remove the transparent status bar from the now playing screen because it's unnecessary and distracting from the album art.
Bring back cover flow (or something better) in landscape view because seriously, it really does feel like a half-assed app design partially because of this.
Remove the pink color scheme in the app, it still looks really tacky and inelegant.
Bring back shuffle all songs, one of my biggest grievances about the new Music App and I'm sure others feel that way too.
Bring back shake to shuffle: I loved the convenience of this feature and I don't understand why they had to remove it completely since it was always optional.
And finally: Change the icon! I really liked the icon from iOS 8.0-8.3 as it was really well done and looked distinct. Now it's another ugly and dull icon with a white background (like Calendar, Safari, Health, etc.) and doesn't really stand out the way it used to. I would like to see the icon redesigned by having the multi-colored gradient be the background and the music note symbol be white. Same for the iTunes icon on OS X.
Include an album artwork thumbnail in the mini player (it looks really dull without it, especially on the iPad since it used to have it there).
Also in the mini player (iPhone version): have more controls by simply swiping left or right on it.
Better screen optimization for the iPad: Full screen Album Art, etc.
Remove the transparent status bar from the now playing screen because it's unnecessary and distracting from the album art.
Bring back cover flow (or something better) in landscape view because seriously, it really does feel like a half-assed app design partially because of this.
Remove the pink color scheme in the app, it still looks really tacky and inelegant.
Bring back shuffle all songs, one of my biggest grievances about the new Music App and I'm sure others feel that way too.
Bring back shake to shuffle: I loved the convenience of this feature and I don't understand why they had to remove it completely since it was always optional.
And finally: Change the icon! I really liked the icon from iOS 8.0-8.3 as it was really well done and looked distinct. Now it's another ugly and dull icon with a white background (like Calendar, Safari, Health, etc.) and doesn't really stand out the way it used to. I would like to see the icon redesigned by having the multi-colored gradient be the background and the music note symbol be white. Same for the iTunes icon on OS X.
+1 for Spotify
For me to switch to Apple Music, it needs to be a significant improvement for me, and right now I see no benefits at all. Add in the fact that a lot of people can get it essentially for free (If you're a Vodafone customer) and there's no reason for me to ditch Spotify for Apple.
It's the same logic that so many people stick with iPhone. If you have something that's great, there needs to be some significant factor for you to change from it.
For me to switch to Apple Music, it needs to be a significant improvement for me, and right now I see no benefits at all. Add in the fact that a lot of people can get it essentially for free (If you're a Vodafone customer) and there's no reason for me to ditch Spotify for Apple.
It's the same logic that so many people stick with iPhone. If you have something that's great, there needs to be some significant factor for you to change from it.