You can do that with Marvis , it’s not ideal but you can do much more with this app
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iOS 17 Music App Features: Crossfade, Collaborative Playlists, Song Credits and More
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Music is awful on iOS and absolutely dreadful on macOS. Lucky for Apple that Spotify have stumbled in bringing lossless and hi-rez audio to their service or I'd be out for sure.
A long-time Spotify user, I switched my family plan to AM a few months ago and am quite happy (better sound, better artist payouts and I actually prefer AM more spacious UI compared to Spotify.)
AM has its issues, but I would encourage everybody who feels strongly about them to submit a feedback directly to Apple, as posting about AM’s bugs & imperfections here is very unlikely to improve it.
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AM has its issues, but I would encourage everybody who feels strongly about them to submit a feedback directly to Apple, as posting about AM’s bugs & imperfections here is very unlikely to improve it.
Let Apple know you care here:
Marvis gives a lot more control to Apple Music on iPhone , like landscape mode , they also added a sidebar similar to the iPad music app
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Wasn’t cross fade a feature on iPhone/iPod like 15 years ago?
Apple has really left behind onboard music user like me who own thousands of songs 😑. lol I’m going back to my iPod now haha.
Recently discovered Spotify free has unlimited skips now and repeat with ads that imho are not intrusive cuts like radio but better. And songs are in order.
Recently discovered Spotify free has unlimited skips now and repeat with ads that imho are not intrusive cuts like radio but better. And songs are in order.
I don't care about any of the listed new features. They need to bring the Classical app to macOS. THAT is something I care about. How difficult could that really be?
On iPad too
I hate the interface. Sorting Playlists doesn’t work- sorting by recently updated or played shows playlists I haven’t opened in months and I have to scroll down to see ones I’ve just added songs to and/or played.
I also hate the controls- no 15 second skip back or forward so you have to hold down the rewind/fast forward buttons for way too long. And in CarPlay you should be able to tap the progress bar to jump to any spot in the song, not hold rewind for 5 seconds just to go back a bit. Unsafe.
I can’t believe how after all these years it’s still so reliant on a computer- I can’t even rename songs or edit metadata without doing it on my MacBook.
And most frustrating is that if I add songs to a playlist on my iPhone and then sync it to my Mac it creates a duplicate playlist in Music on the Mac with the same name followed a 1 or 2 or 3 (and so on) that has the additonal songs on top of the original playlist that doesn’t include them. Wtf?!
I also hate the controls- no 15 second skip back or forward so you have to hold down the rewind/fast forward buttons for way too long. And in CarPlay you should be able to tap the progress bar to jump to any spot in the song, not hold rewind for 5 seconds just to go back a bit. Unsafe.
I can’t believe how after all these years it’s still so reliant on a computer- I can’t even rename songs or edit metadata without doing it on my MacBook.
And most frustrating is that if I add songs to a playlist on my iPhone and then sync it to my Mac it creates a duplicate playlist in Music on the Mac with the same name followed a 1 or 2 or 3 (and so on) that has the additonal songs on top of the original playlist that doesn’t include them. Wtf?!
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I think it's because when you connect your phone it is automatically backed up first, then your new playlist is synced/added which Music thinks is a duplicate. I get all capitalized letters on one of them.
They should also have an option to corroborate or group music playlists of songs by genres that we create on Apple Music when we buy songs from iTunes (I have a bit over 2,000 songs that I bought from iTunes being on one playlist).
Edit: Oh, & give us the option to completely delete songs from the “Hidden playlist” section from “iTunes For Windows” & “iTunes For Mac” that we don’t want anymore in order to prevent us from re-downloading or rebuying the same versions or numbers of songs that we previously bought.
Edit: Oh, & give us the option to completely delete songs from the “Hidden playlist” section from “iTunes For Windows” & “iTunes For Mac” that we don’t want anymore in order to prevent us from re-downloading or rebuying the same versions or numbers of songs that we previously bought.
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Things I really believe AM needs to implement:
1. Ability to control other devices playing music a-la-Spotify. Ie, I should be able to play my music on a docked iPhone, and control what music plays on that iPhone from my iPad or my Laptop. This could be as simple as signed in Apple Music devices appearing as destinations in the airplay menu, or some other method. Either way, this is the one thing I miss from Spotify.
2. Landscape mode on iOS
3. The ability to have visibility to "liked" tracks
4. Rebuilt apps on all platforms built for speed and stability.
5. Streaming data on the Artists page similar to how Spotify does it - i'd love to quickly be able to see how popular a song or album is. (This is great for digging as it tells me if a track or artist is truly unheard of or if I'm just late to discovering a very popular song or artist)
6. I'd love to be able to scan physical album barcodes in search, ie I have tons of Vinyl records and I'd love to be able to just scan the bar codes and listen to those albums vs typing in the full album name. This would be especially helpful for those albums that have different versions.
7. Eliminate the gaps between songs - this is especially apparent on DJ mixes and Live Albums. This seems to be an easily fixable issue and it's very strange to me that such a nice little detail has been ignored by Apple of all companies.
1. Ability to control other devices playing music a-la-Spotify. Ie, I should be able to play my music on a docked iPhone, and control what music plays on that iPhone from my iPad or my Laptop. This could be as simple as signed in Apple Music devices appearing as destinations in the airplay menu, or some other method. Either way, this is the one thing I miss from Spotify.
2. Landscape mode on iOS
3. The ability to have visibility to "liked" tracks
4. Rebuilt apps on all platforms built for speed and stability.
5. Streaming data on the Artists page similar to how Spotify does it - i'd love to quickly be able to see how popular a song or album is. (This is great for digging as it tells me if a track or artist is truly unheard of or if I'm just late to discovering a very popular song or artist)
6. I'd love to be able to scan physical album barcodes in search, ie I have tons of Vinyl records and I'd love to be able to just scan the bar codes and listen to those albums vs typing in the full album name. This would be especially helpful for those albums that have different versions.
7. Eliminate the gaps between songs - this is especially apparent on DJ mixes and Live Albums. This seems to be an easily fixable issue and it's very strange to me that such a nice little detail has been ignored by Apple of all companies.
Totally useless unless you have subscription. Why do they offer the app at all with devices?
If you even have a Music subscription, it still doesn’t sync between devices.
I gave it up, ended the subscription, and only use it from 2 devices for how it now works for mainly tracks I've added myself.
Listen to my own music collection, not often, from the Studio.
For new music, and some older, I have YouTube Music as I subscribe to YouTube - like at least 100x more worth than Apple Music. It’s about to pick our subscriptions.
If you even have a Music subscription, it still doesn’t sync between devices.
I gave it up, ended the subscription, and only use it from 2 devices for how it now works for mainly tracks I've added myself.
Listen to my own music collection, not often, from the Studio.
For new music, and some older, I have YouTube Music as I subscribe to YouTube - like at least 100x more worth than Apple Music. It’s about to pick our subscriptions.
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How about an option to never play any Springsteen?
I would say those are annoyances that could be improved rather than “atrocious”. Needing a ground up redesign seems a little extreme.
Reminds me... my YouTube Premium sub comes with YouTube Music. I really should look into how to better utilize that :\
I know you're (half) joking, but that's another thing I miss from Spotify - the ability to block an artist from ever appearing in any form anywhere that I listened to music. For example, I blocked Justin Bieber on Spotify and his trash music never appeared anywhere in any recommended algorithms or playlists or anything. He just vanished and even if I had a friend who had bad taste and included him in a playlist, I never saw it or heard him.
I wish you could access other people's playlists in Apple music via the search function. I miss that about spotify. I'm also a little disappointed that Apple Music doesn't have some music thought they'd have. Is there a way to contact Apple and ask them to add a band???