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Check Out iOS 10's Redesigned Apple Music Experience

I realize I am an old dude, but I have a large library of music. I don't care about streaming in the least. All I want is an app that lets me play the music I have purchased, ripped, or recorded on my phone. Every revision of the music app has been worse for the way I happen to listen to music.

I really wish they would just come out with separate apps for all the streaming content and whatever I have in my personal library.

Even streaming all my content isn't ideal because I don't have reliable wi-fi at work and I don't want to use my data streaming my music if I can just load it on to my iPhone and play whatever I want.
 
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I don't like this new design and I blame everyone in this forum that mindlessly complained about the app in iOS 9. There was nothing wrong with the current design. This is not intuitive, it's not easier. It takes more work to do simple tasks like looking at an artist's page... Ugh!!!
 
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TMRJIJ said:
I don't like this new design and I blame everyone in this forum that mindlessly complained about the app in iOS 9. There was nothing wrong with the current design. This is not intuitive, it's not easier. It takes more work to do simple tasks like looking at an artist's page... Ugh!!!
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There was plenty wrong with the outgoing version of Apple Music. Let's start with the damn status bar that gets lost depending on the artist album cover. How about the tiny targets? Ok on a tiny phone, not okay on a 6+. Apple is finally ditching the thin fonts OS-wide. This was never a good idea and it looks like the adults are back at steering the ship.
 
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Seriously! I think its time for Apple Music top stop being an iOS feature (since it's already on android and iTunes) and start to be an app of its own that we can get regularly updated on. While I like the director they are taking this in, I'm really not sure if a yearly update will suffice since all the competitors are constantly improving.
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The OS gets updated several times a year. Usually not the kind of updates that completely change the look and feel of apps like Apple Music, but bug fixes, performance enhancements, and sometimes even new features.
 
Thresher said:
I realize I am an old dude, but I have a large library of music. I don't care about streaming in the least. All I want is an app that lets me play the music I have purchased, ripped, or recorded on my phone. Every revision of the music app has been worse for the way I happen to listen to music.

I really wish they would just come out with separate apps for all the streaming content and whatever I have in my personal library.

Even streaming all my content isn't ideal because I don't have reliable wi-fi at work and I don't want to use my data streaming my music if I can just load it on to my iPhone and play whatever I want.
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I'm right there with you. A clean, intuitive native Music app from Apple is now a thing of the past. Each new version just shoves their streaming service more and more, making a clean alternative impossible.
 
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TMRJIJ said:
I don't like this new design and I blame everyone in this forum that mindlessly complained about the app in iOS 9. There was nothing wrong with the current design. This is not intuitive, it's not easier. It takes more work to do simple tasks like looking at an artist's page... Ugh!!!
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I agree. However, they should have made some minor changes and they went completely nuts.

I am hoping they do something about it before the initial release, but I am afraid this is their new style.

Note: I haven't used it, so maybe it is better with actual use, but I can look at the screen shots and see that there is huge font where music used to be.
 
duffman9000 said:
There was plenty wrong with the outgoing version of Apple Music. Let's start with the damn status bar that gets lost depending on the artist album cover. How about the tiny targets? Ok on a tiny phone, not okay on a 6+. Apple is finally ditching the thin fonts OS-wide. This was never a good idea and it looks like the adults are back at steering the ship.
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There is nothing wrong with fonts in iOS 9. My 67 year old grandfather can see the buttons easily without his reading glasses. Apple is wasting space with these bold text. Just think how much content can fit in the For you tab without the titles taking up 25% of the screen for no reason.
 
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Thresher said:
I realize I am an old dude, but I have a large library of music. I don't care about streaming in the least. All I want is an app that lets me play the music I have purchased, ripped, or recorded on my phone. Every revision of the music app has been worse for the way I happen to listen to music.

I really wish they would just come out with separate apps for all the streaming content and whatever I have in my personal library.
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Exactly! I am sooooo tired of the music app showing me what's in my iTunes match library all the time despite using the toggle switch to select it to only show what's downloaded into my phone and not in the cloud. I still can't fathom why they can't keep this from happening. It is especially annoying when you have a very large library
 
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Thresher said:
I realize I am an old dude, but I have a large library of music. I don't care about streaming in the least. All I want is an app that lets me play the music I have purchased, ripped, or recorded on my phone. Every revision of the music app has been worse for the way I happen to listen to music.

I really wish they would just come out with separate apps for all the streaming content and whatever I have in my personal library.

Even streaming all my content isn't ideal because I don't have reliable wi-fi at work and I don't want to use my data streaming my music if I can just load it on to my iPhone and play whatever I want.
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Apple seems to think we all have unlimited data and battery life, and simple music collections of complete albums.

The music app and iTunes have become storefronts. Remember how fast and easy iTunes 10 was, before the redesign?

I still use my 4S on iOS 6 for music at the gym instead of my iPhone 6 sometimes and it's rather refreshing.
 
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TMRJIJ said:
There is nothing wrong with fonts in iOS 9. My 67 year old grandfather can see the buttons easily without his reading glasses. Apple is wasting space with these bold text. Just think how much content can fit in the For you tab without the titles taking up 25% of the screen for no reason.
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Keep telling yourself that. After going way too thin in iOS 8 Apple has been correcting itself. But keep telling yourself the small text with equally small targets are okay.
 
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