These are my major gripes:
1. Genius playlists are not fully supported in Apple Music. Even if you have the feature enabled in iTunes, the automatically generated Genius Playlists cannot sync to your iPhone/mobile device.
2. The "Recently Added" preview is visually distracting and very intrusive, taking up a good portion of the iPhone screen. Even when disabled in iTunes, you cannot disable this feature in the Music App -- anywhere.
3. If you decline the Music subscription like I have, then a good chuck of the UI elements become functionally useless, and do nothing but clutter your view/navigation. I find this especially problematic when driving, as there's no way to quickly navigate through the app. 3/4 of the quick launch buttons are functionally useless to me (playlists (no genius support), radio, connect).
4. There's way too many hidden menu items with small icons. For instance, in order to shuffle through all songs from a single artist, you need to click the "..." beside the album cover (infinitesimally small), and then select "next song", which is hardly intuitive.
These are just some of the minor but varied complaints that I have with the new Music app. Granted, everyone's needs will be different, but there's no doubt in my mind that this is functionally inferior to the previous iTunes app. If anyone has any solution to the above issues, I'm all ears.
In the meantime, I've stopped using my iPhone to listen to music during my commute. The missing features, terrible UI, and unintuitive navigation make it both distracting and dangerous, and so it has literally stopped me from listening to my music.
In my view, that is the definition of FAIL.
1. Genius playlists are not fully supported in Apple Music. Even if you have the feature enabled in iTunes, the automatically generated Genius Playlists cannot sync to your iPhone/mobile device.
2. The "Recently Added" preview is visually distracting and very intrusive, taking up a good portion of the iPhone screen. Even when disabled in iTunes, you cannot disable this feature in the Music App -- anywhere.
3. If you decline the Music subscription like I have, then a good chuck of the UI elements become functionally useless, and do nothing but clutter your view/navigation. I find this especially problematic when driving, as there's no way to quickly navigate through the app. 3/4 of the quick launch buttons are functionally useless to me (playlists (no genius support), radio, connect).
4. There's way too many hidden menu items with small icons. For instance, in order to shuffle through all songs from a single artist, you need to click the "..." beside the album cover (infinitesimally small), and then select "next song", which is hardly intuitive.
These are just some of the minor but varied complaints that I have with the new Music app. Granted, everyone's needs will be different, but there's no doubt in my mind that this is functionally inferior to the previous iTunes app. If anyone has any solution to the above issues, I'm all ears.
In the meantime, I've stopped using my iPhone to listen to music during my commute. The missing features, terrible UI, and unintuitive navigation make it both distracting and dangerous, and so it has literally stopped me from listening to my music.
In my view, that is the definition of FAIL.