This any good for you? Pharrell Williams
And you have thousands of additional unless posts just like it!
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Apple Music Connect's 'Clunky' Posting Process Detailed by Indie Artist
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This any good for you? Pharrell Williams
And you have thousands of additional unless posts just like it!
Great isn't it!!
Um, those are the comments from users/fans on Connect. I never open those comments, I just watch/listen to what the artists themselves are posting on Connect, that's the whole point.
EDIT: I can see where maybe you are confused about Connect if Pharrell Williams is the only artist you've looked at, all I see from him on Connect is a photo he's posted... with over 2000 comments! So yeah, that sucks... But check out other artists, again like Trent Reznor, you may not be a fan, but for his fans, he's posted his entire "With Teeth" album without vocals, so an instrument version of the album, for free. And he's posted videos from his concerts, old, rare behind-the-scenes photos (if you are into that stuff.)
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Shame that the consumer side is lacking too....
Apple increasingly doesn't understand how to make products that just work.
Doesn't he work for Apple now? Maybe that's the reason he is one of the few that are using it right. This will soon be forgotten by most as they disable the tab.
Welcome to Ping 2 my friends. Apple just doesn't get social - I believe they never will.
Long ago in days of yore, Apple UI and process was elegant, slick and "just worked". If there was ever a term that the folks at Apple should despise whenever a user was to describe using one of their products it is "clunky". In the past that was a term that would never even be considered in the lexicon of Apple. These days however, it's become quite common.
Apple really needs to rethink where its going with its software design as well as it's offerings. It's been a long time since I've seen anything they've put out that was elegant, slick and "just worked".
Long ago in days of yore, Apple UI and process was elegant, slick and "just worked". If there was ever a term that the folks at Apple should despise whenever a user was to describe using one of their products it is "clunky". In the past that was a term that would never even be considered in the lexicon of Apple. These days however, it's become quite common.
Apple really needs to rethink where its going with its software design as well as it's offerings. It's been a long time since I've seen anything they've put out that was elegant, slick and "just worked".
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The band seems to think that the listeners are the Band's customers, that's not how it works in Apple's ecosystem. These are Apple customers first and foremost. If Apple decides to do something different, it will only be because they were humiliated into it by people like Taylor Swift.
Or how about Connect including stuff from other platforms? Wants to have to post this stuff to all these different places? Apple doesn't need to try and become a social platform.
It's ironic as their hardware has became more and more minimalistic over the years the software has bloated to the point of being clunky and disjointed.
Connect has good potential, but there are some work to be done.
We need to be able to upload stuff from a computer and it would be great to know if you have any followers.
Also the comments section is very messy, it should be laid out more like facebook. It's good to be able to reply comments.
They need some feedback to make things work like they should. Hope they listen.
We need to be able to upload stuff from a computer and it would be great to know if you have any followers.
Also the comments section is very messy, it should be laid out more like facebook. It's good to be able to reply comments.
They need some feedback to make things work like they should. Hope they listen.
Well, yeah, if the artists in question could actually POST a song. I have an Apple Music Connect Artist Profile, and I just spent the whole day trying to push a single, rare remix exclusively to Connect. I experienced most of the things that article-writer complained about, and every upload failed. I gave up.
How am I supposed to post exclusive music if I need to first sync it up to my iPhone and then use THAT to post it there?
I'm not ready to boot up GarageBand and go that way, but maybe I should just give up and ram a track into GarageBand and hope it's Apple Music Connect will work..... Good grief Apple!
Ping 2 was my first thought too. I don't get how a company who's so good at what they usually do can be so utterly bad at social. When all of us armchair quarterbacks can do a better job at least conceptually pointing out the flaws, it's not good.
I agree on all counts. We need some method of getting notified if there's a comment. Need a way to be able to reply to that comment - and the person who left the comment, should be notified when they receive a response from the artist.
Uploading music from iTunes OSX should be absolutely glaringly obviously there, from day 1.
And I still don't know how to slam in a profile picture to my Apple Music Connect Artist, or a cover photo. Come on!
I agree it's not the best method. It failed on me once, but then I found another way to post music... put your music in Dropbox, then open the Dropbox app on your iOS device, choose the song and click the "share" button and choose the "Open In..." icon where you then get a choice to open that song from Dropbox into the Music app. Then you simply choose your Artist name, add a Cover Photo and post away! I've done several songs and videos this way for 6 of my music projects with no issues.
Here's the video I posted today - Out Of This World
But I do wish they had a web-based interface where you can just drag-n-drop your music directly to your profile page, that would be nice! I'm much more concerned about all these people (mostly here) that don't get what Connect is actually about, so they are removing it and/or bashing it without actually giving it a fair chance.
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The blog has ben updated:
"got an email from Trent Reznor this afternoon. Apple is aware of the growing pains and is working to address them."
Profile pictures would be great. I don't know who's doing the artwork now on all the big names. Is it apple themselves or the record companies?
I took a look at Pink Floyd, almost every album has their own artwork made for the album pages. It would be great if we were able to do that aswell.
Let's be honest, first three months this is effectively a beta. It will improve before anyone starts paying for it , including the artists side and the artists are getting a cut from the start.
Though people raising these issues are going to get some free publicity
Though people raising these issues are going to get some free publicity
Man, thanks for your post. I also found that I can enable "Share to Music" from the Camera Roll Share-window and managed to post a few images. I'm yet to try the Dropbox method, maybe that's the real trick. I was really hoping to try it out properly with just regular iTunes.
I went and installed GarageBand OSX - and was unable to find the "Share to Apple Music Connect". I went and installed GarageBand iOS , and didn't see Share to Apple Music Connect - until I enabled it from inside of the Share button. I don't really make music on my iPhone & GarageBand so I'm not going to check out if it would work. Could be good if you were, say, someone who's prone to singing multiple takes of the same vocal using a dinky iPhone microphone and layering them on top of eachother.. Or an off-hand demo of a track that you really want to share to your fans before posting it.
Incidentally, clicking on the Out Of This World link of yours did take me to the website, but when I clicked on it to take me to iTunes, I just got my regular Apple Music Connect feed. So, the links are not universal (they're not "Deep Links" like iOS touted). I hope they will be, one day.
I too am absolutely shocked at the amount of people who are spreading news on how to remove your Apple Music Connect. This was supposed to solve a lot of issues that independent musicians had, and help them, now everyone is just having it removed before it gets to take off properly? What's the point..
Oh well, too bad. The code is set in stone now and nothing will ever be changed. Nothing will be improved and no features will ever be added. That's just the way it is. If you don't like it there's always pandora.
Someone: I wonder if he's trying to be sarcastic?
Me: Yes, it's sarcasm.
Someone: I wonder if he's trying to be sarcastic?
Me: Yes, it's sarcasm.
What's hilarious is that describes exactly what did happen with iTunes Match. I'm sure people defended it saying it was 1.0 and it would totally improve. But then it never did. Of course theoretically Apple could make improvements this time, but their track record for server based services is pretty poor.