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New Musik App abolutely horrible
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You can filter out to only see offline songs by going to 'My Music' tab and selecting 'Artists'/'Albums'/'Songs'/etc.
I was on 8.4 beta so I was using the new Music player (but without Apple Music) for some time. In that version the tabs are 'My Music', 'Playlists', and 'Radio'.
Things were already not as obvious as Apple was already trying to integrate streaming (iTunes Match) with offline music.
With the Apple Music integration Apple in squeezing in a ton more content/features/functionality into a single app, hence it takes some time getting used to.
Apple is also further integrating Apple Music streamed songs with your old playlist to make it unified, so there may be more confusion produced as a result.
Still, I'm pretty satisfied already even though I would like further streamlining of the interface.
Maybe there will be an update after Apple receives all the feedback from the three month trial period?
Things were already not as obvious as Apple was already trying to integrate streaming (iTunes Match) with offline music.
With the Apple Music integration Apple in squeezing in a ton more content/features/functionality into a single app, hence it takes some time getting used to.
Apple is also further integrating Apple Music streamed songs with your old playlist to make it unified, so there may be more confusion produced as a result.
Still, I'm pretty satisfied already even though I would like further streamlining of the interface.
Maybe there will be an update after Apple receives all the feedback from the three month trial period?
+1 I don't understand people saying the design is awful :S
Seriously!? I'm in the exact polar opposite stance of thinking it's one of the best apps I have ever used.
I do a search, select the three dots... next to the album or song I am search for and select "Add to My Music", the My Music animated checkmark comes up. Then I go to the My Music tab and it's not there. What am I doing wrong? I have "iCloud Music Library" switch to on.
I just came back to this thread to say I figured it out. It was in another thread. It's not exactly intuitive. But, for others who read this. Go to the My Music tab. Near the center, under the Recently Added display you will see it say "Artists, Albums, Songs, Music Videos, Genres, Composers, or Compilations", in red, depending on which one is selected. To the right of whatever it says is a tiny down arrow. I missed that down arrow.
When you select the red sort (Or is it a view), it gives you a dropdown menu where you can choose a new sort (view). At the bottom of that is a switch that says "Show Music Available Offline". Turn off that switch and it will work as expected.
I miss the customisble tabs at the bottom. You have to take quite a few steps back to find the option to view albums now. Atleast they fixed the artist>albums view.
I haven't cared for the stock music app since they butchered it from iOS 7. I'll stick to using picky music app from the app store.
I haven't cared for the stock music app since they butchered it from iOS 7. I'll stick to using picky music app from the app store.
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I am never going to use Apple Music or Radio so both those tabs are absolutely useless. Plus on every page you have the icon on the top left to sign up for it.
Although you can remove the Apple Music tab you can't change anything else...
I really miss the ability to customize the bottom tabs.
Such a mess. I miss how it was in iOS 6.
Perhaps a "simple mode" with JUST the music‽
Although you can remove the Apple Music tab you can't change anything else...
I really miss the ability to customize the bottom tabs.
Such a mess. I miss how it was in iOS 6.
Perhaps a "simple mode" with JUST the music‽
If you have a big library, it's really hard to navigate. I use Genre sort all the time. Now under Genre, it's only sorted by album title, not artist, so I have 600 albums by 200 artists all together alphabetized together instead of a scrollable list of artists within that Genre that I can click to see their albums only.
I hate the little corner icon that shows if a song is on your phone or not. It's very small and not having the cloud on songs in the cloud seems backwards. It's dumb. I rolled my phone back to 8.3 and won't update again until it's changed.
I hate the little corner icon that shows if a song is on your phone or not. It's very small and not having the cloud on songs in the cloud seems backwards. It's dumb. I rolled my phone back to 8.3 and won't update again until it's changed.
Wish you could disable the stuff you don't use. It's bloatware now.
What a totally stupid, unthought place to put the play/pause button.
It's impossible to use one handed and 50% of the time I press the awful "for you" page.
It's impossible to use one handed and 50% of the time I press the awful "for you" page.
Jony Ive should fix it before leaving... at least his current position to another.
It's not intuitive at all. They tried to cram a lot of functionality in a single app and it failed imo.
I think there should be two seperate apps; Music and Beats1/Radio.
Step child iTunes Store app should be merged with one of them as well; probably w/ Music app.
There are top hit lists on both iTunes Store app and Music app so functionalities overlaps, you can buy music from both of them (alas services are different) again functionalities overlaps....
It's not intuitive at all. They tried to cram a lot of functionality in a single app and it failed imo.
I think there should be two seperate apps; Music and Beats1/Radio.
Step child iTunes Store app should be merged with one of them as well; probably w/ Music app.
There are top hit lists on both iTunes Store app and Music app so functionalities overlaps, you can buy music from both of them (alas services are different) again functionalities overlaps....
You can turn apple music off in settings. It changes the music tab to be first instead of last. Removes one too. Still wish it was more customizable.
If you guys are complaining about the new Music app.. Are you seriously saying that the old app was better.
The old app was outdated...
The old app was outdated...
Imo the old app doesn't differ all that much from the new one. The new one has all the integration with the online stuff which is both its biggest pro and con. Yes it gives you something extra, more to discover but it also gives you a complete maze where you can get lost rather easily. I've turned it off as I don't care for Apple Music at all. I just want to listen to my mp3 songs. The addition of the play next feature is something I consider to be the best thing they've added in the new app because it puts the functionality of the mobile app on the same level as the desktop app.
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Did you have a iTunes Match subscription?
But I am really into Apple Music... I did the Family Plan and added 2 users to it so far. I plan on adding 2 more later on. It was puzzling under the Family Plan under Apple Music in the beginning.
But I understand it, only negative about it... Is that I originally had iTunes Match on 9 devices. Now I'm unable to share my iTunes Match library. Because Apple Music Family only works when each user is tied to their own iCloud account.
It's as if I'll have to choose iTunes Match or Apple Music going forward... I'll decide in 3 months though.
I think the issue is that it's "new." There needs to be time to adjust to it.
Although they were huge criticism to iOS 7, eventually it grown on users. Although there a plenty still prefer iOS 6, but compared to the initial reaction to iOS 7 it was doomed!
Outdated? Sure, but it worked. Change might not mean anything to someone who has to deal with music on a 16GB device, you're constantly adding and removing stuff. But to someone who has their entire device dedicated to music, which they've been racking up since the iPod days, it means a lot. The changes are a huge disruption to how we manage music on iTunes, and how we go through it on our devices.