That's odd because I can use the radio and I have apple music turned off in fact all my radio stations are still there and work just like it did in 8.3
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New Musik App abolutely horrible
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That's odd because I can use the radio and I have apple music turned off in fact all my radio stations are still there and work just like it did in 8.3
So I was checking my app usage today in settings to see how much battery was used for the new Music App. I played music from my library for about 45 mins and it shows 6% battery but underneath that it says background activity. I'm not streaming and apple music is turned off, just listening to my own music I imported from CDs to my library why is there background activity?
You said Apple Music is turned off, yet you're listening to music. I'm a bit confused. If Music is not running you can't be listening. If you're listening, the Music app is working in the background, using battery.
In the USA, radio doesn't require a subscription. What country are you in?
I'm in the UK, which I guess explains it. By not subscribing I'm going to be stuck with a portion of the music app that's unusable.
That does explain it. Here is the UK version of same webpage. It's probably a licensing issue. You do get three months free to try it out, though. So why not give it a go and see if you like it?
Show apple music is turned off in settings and connect is off. I'm listening to my own music using the music app why is it using background activity?
Because you're listening to music. The app has to run in the background to make the music play for you.
I thought that was obvious it makes it seem like it's doing some other kind of activity.
Exactly what i thought. I'm a happy Spotify user, and thought i'd give apple music a try, so i installed 8.4 on a 5S i don't use. I thought for sure i'd be canceling spotify. But from the get go apple music was a big fat turd. I don't think apple actually tests anything anymore. I think they just say they do, and sit around laughing at us.
Exactly. If the slider for Apple Music is set to off the premium features should be removed, or at least "greyed out" to give a visual cue that it's not enabled for you. I am based in the UK (see a few posts up about a potential licensing issue with radio)
I actually love the For You tab, have found great playlists.
My gripes so far are:
My gripes so far are:
- If I leave an album or playlist - why can't I go back to the album?
- If I'm playing a random song I like, why can't I hit the elipsis and choose go to artist? why do i have to search again for it?
- Connect is a mess. I hid it under Settings. So that takes care of that.
- Drives me nuts when i hit elipsis and see so many action options ,they need to condense that or find a more elegant way to show all that stuff.
- Recently app crashed, erased everything, and then redownloading everything back again totally randomly. what gives?
After you tap on the ellipse, you can actually tap on the song name (the first option). It brings you to the album. From there you can access the artist page by tapping the artist name.
I had no idea that worked but I just tried it and it works. Another example that this interface is not intuitive. I would never know about tapping on the song name to get to the album from in random mode. Thanks
most of the time this goes to a blank unknown artists/unknown playlist screen. Can't figure out what the conditions for this are though, or for when it works. Any idea?
Great find! Totally intuitive, but thanks for pointing it out. Was driving me crazy.
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