Yeah ... Apple's Cloud services are awful. They really need to focus on that.
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Many Apple Music Listeners Seeing 503 iCloud Connection Errors
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Now I get to laugh at those people who tell me I need to get with the times and stop buying music (on vinyl, CD, download)... that streaming is the future and the way to go. Future looks a bit icloudy to me.
owning my music > renting music
owning my music > renting music
Any environment variable used by another application and AM, a process used by AM that was stuck at some point or not responding as it should have, a file that was locked for reading, etc. There's many possible reasons.
And why rebooting instead of rebooting the service, well... Because he probably had no means to find what was the cause and rebooting usually comes to mind (especially if you were on windows < 8)
Also, simply restarting a service wouldn't necessarily reset the configuration as it was before it changed it.
Anyway, this is all speculation, we don't even know if the reboot fixed it or if it was coincidental, but hese are all possible reasons
Yeah fair enough, We joke around at work when developers cannot solve an issue and say "have you rebooted it yet"
All of Apple's online services are surprisingly spotty for such a huge, valuable, reputable company. iCloud backup burned me before, so I avoid it. I think the worst is the whole Developer Center thing, where I've seen really weird glitches that come and go randomly.
You should complain about what they were doing before while all these technicians were hired since it's their job to hire/manage, not fix the problems themselves. They can't seem to run web services properly. Maybe because Google hires most of the talent. They definitely seem to appeal to college students and graduates a lot more.
Well, the cloud is a tough beast to work with..
Time to a cuppa, or several...
In the meantime, I got a stockload of local music to catch up on..
Sounds like an effort for you.
If you send me all your music, I’ll listen to it for you, so you won't have to catch up.
And me, incredibly annoying since my work rig is an iMac connected to some H&K SoundStick IIs!
I've given up with Apple Music and gone back to Spotify. I can't take the bugs and annoyances. I find it less intuitive to use than Spotify.
iOS 9 and El Cap are fantastic and will be well received when released. Apple Music on the other hand deserves a Beta tag in my opinion.
I'm still umm'ing and ahh'ing over which to pick. I'm quite 'invested' into Spotify with playlists and I appreciate that it's on my PS4, but I do like Apple Music's For You section. It really is as good as people say.
There are some good parts to Apple Music. For You, New and Beats1. It needs some work and fixing. It's also missing a lot of music that Spotify has.
I've been seeing a lot of errors about security certificates being wrong, or missing, in the past few weeks, nearly month.
It's really sad to see a company that used to have such a rock solid(ish) facade, showing cracks that make me wonder if anyone really knows what the hell is going on.
I take a dim view of broken links, and security popups, especially on a website that I frequent, or in a program I'm forced to use.
steve jobs might have been a tyrant, but poop worked... (Even MobileMe worked very well for me. No problems)
It's really sad to see a company that used to have such a rock solid(ish) facade, showing cracks that make me wonder if anyone really knows what the hell is going on.
I take a dim view of broken links, and security popups, especially on a website that I frequent, or in a program I'm forced to use.
steve jobs might have been a tyrant, but poop worked... (Even MobileMe worked very well for me. No problems)
As much as I love Apple, I'm afraid I have to agree with you. Quality control seems to have gone out the window. For a company who has that much cash, these issues are embarrassing. Apple needs to be more transparent about issues, not leaving users in the dark.
I just discovered that my mac mini's iTunes isn't controllable via the Apple Remote app anymore. Well, or seems that way.
I bought the 'server' version, and now I can't even remote into it since I upgraded it to Yosemite...
Like I just said, steve jobs might have been a tyrant, but poop worked...
Yeah! Like when iTunes went down, like every day for what, three weeks?!?! And Apple's 'System Status' page nearly always seemed to say 'What me worry. Everything is working perfectly. It's supposed to do that'
I wonder if steve and Tim played 'bad cop, good cop' around there before he died. We aren't hearing about people being nailed to the walls as much (at all) under Tim's leadership.
I know some people live and breath iCloud... but for me it's just not reliable. Apple has a huge consumer base - so yes, I understand things "happen" and there are always going to be issues. But they have pretty regular outages to the point that, for me - I have no desire to keep everything there.
Oh noes! The service is temporarily unavailable! That's never happened before on the internets.
Yes, it's a new service where there may be 50million+ people accessing it simultaneously and the system isn't fully tuned up yet for huge loads - and I personally wouldn't have a clue on how difficult that is to test for before it actually happens. But still, this is ME, and I demand perfection, and I have a keyboard and a bag of Cheetos to make sure it happens.
The sky is falling! And to top it off my bag of Cheetos just a has a couple left. What am I going to do? I want it now or I'm going to hold my breath.
Yes, it's a new service where there may be 50million+ people accessing it simultaneously and the system isn't fully tuned up yet for huge loads - and I personally wouldn't have a clue on how difficult that is to test for before it actually happens. But still, this is ME, and I demand perfection, and I have a keyboard and a bag of Cheetos to make sure it happens.
The sky is falling! And to top it off my bag of Cheetos just a has a couple left. What am I going to do? I want it now or I'm going to hold my breath.