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iOS 17 Music App Features: Crossfade, Collaborative Playlists, Song Credits and More

eicca said:
Wait WHAT?

They seriously block you from syncing files you own if you're subscribed?

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Add yet another reason I don't want to upgrade past Mojave.
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A year or so ago I had Apple Music. It integrated my music with Apple Music but it totally screwed up my own music after I unsubscribed. It wouldn’t let me sync my own music. I had to download imazing and pay for the license to reupload my music off my iPod back to my iTunes library. And my library is 6000 songs so it’s thousands of dollars of music worth plus memories associated with the songs.
 
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1rottenapple said:
A year or so ago I had Apple Music. It integrated my music with Apple Music but it totally screwed up my own music after I unsubscribed. It wouldn’t let me sync my own music. I had to download imazing and pay for the license to reupload my music off my iPod back to my iTunes library. And my library is 6000 songs so it’s thousands of dollars of music worth plus memories associated with the songs.
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Case and point: Apple has ditched “it just works” and now runs on “you do it OUR way and shut up about it.”
 
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Nautilus007 said:
They made it too complicated and too bloated.

The music app should be simple, easy and light on the eyes. Instead its like a Times Square billboard of chaos...
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Agreed! Too many playlists. Too many choices. Too many menus. Makes it difficult to simply find some music to listen to.

Throw tomatoes at me if you must, but we find Amazon Music to be a far superior service. The app doesn't integrate nearly as well with iPhone (no surprise), but if you can get over that aspect you might just like it. Playlists are spot-on. Good music is easy to find. Recommendations are much better. Even their 'Ultra HD' has a better sound than Apple's 'Hi-Res Lossless' to me. Its the #3 streaming service in the US for a reason.
 
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1rottenapple said:
A year or so ago I had Apple Music. It integrated my music with Apple Music but it totally screwed up my own music after I unsubscribed. It wouldn’t let me sync my own music. I had to download imazing and pay for the license to reupload my music off my iPod back to my iTunes library. And my library is 6000 songs so it’s thousands of dollars of music worth plus memories associated with the songs.
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If it wasn’t for iMazing(MacOS), and MediaMonkey(Windows) I would’ve switched to Android
 
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eicca said:
Case in point: Apple has ditched “it just works” and now runs on “you do it OUR way and shut up about it.”
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Nah it’s more like pay us a monthly to make it work.

Apple Watch music storage is horrible and unreliable. There’s really no excuse why you can’t transfer all of your music there.
 
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nnoble said:
As long as crossfade is optional - fine. For me, it ranks with video autoplay and unsolicited 'trailers' all of which are designed to remove sanctuaries of momentary silence to pause, appreciate and think. An ideal music streaming interface for me would be a blank sheet and an ability to add and erase from options available. 'Music WE love' would never see the light of day.
I find Deezer has the least worse interface and the IOS 'Focus', combined with it's underlying algorithms that - just works.
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the worse thing about crossfade for me is the "train wrecks" if you're listening to anything to begins and ends with a beat. really don't see the appeal...
 
Few years ago, they’ve removed “Play after next”, today they have even removed “play later” option. So now apparently you cannot just queue songs one after another. Instead, we’ve gotten Karaoke updates:-(
 
nnoble said:
As long as crossfade is optional - fine. For me, it ranks with video autoplay and unsolicited 'trailers' all of which are designed to remove sanctuaries of momentary silence to pause, appreciate and think. An ideal music streaming interface for me would be a blank sheet and an ability to add and erase from options available. 'Music WE love' would never see the light of day.
I find Deezer has the least worse interface and the IOS 'Focus', combined with it's underlying algorithms that - just works.
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Yes! I don’t want or need any smarts. Just infinite songs in my pocket.
 
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