One thing is to like, listen to music and entirely different thing is being OCD about it.
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Replace the 'Apple Connect' Tab with a 'Playlists' Tab in Apple Music
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One thing is to like, listen to music and entirely different thing is being OCD about it.
This is a great tip! Now if someone can figure out how to get rid of the "Recently Added" section, my app would be just fine!
Some people just want the music app to listen to music. I'm pissed they took away the option to customize the menu at the bottom of the screen. I would be ok with keeping Connect if I could click the "more" button to get to it. Just let me have Artists, Songs, Playlists, and More to get to all the streaming junk. I really hate how Apple doesn't want us to have our own music any more. Of course the same thing happened with the AppleTV a while ago.
Between this and Aperture, I'm finally looking at moving my content away from Apple apps. Just need to figure out how to get my music database (playlists/ratings/song count) into Synology Audio Station.
So much +1 to this. I suggest everyone who feels this is an issue to bombard Apple with feedback.
Thanks, great tip to disable a "feature" I'll never use and clean up a messy interface.
Ok, you convinced me to keep it there. What is the name of your band so I can follow?
I really don't get it, you explicitly and voluntarily signed up for iCloud Music and now you complain that Apple 'forced' you to do so? How dare Apple offer a streaming service and advertise it.
Just disable 'Apple Music' in the iTunes preferences and the music streaming service is gone.
I'm a bit ticked they got rid of it for Music... I'll be livid if they ditch it for Video. I never know what I'll be in the mood to watch and they don't make a 3.7TB iPhone yet so I can take my entire TV/Movie library with me... Mine are all rips of DVDs I own so unless Apple strikes an "iTunes Match" deal for video I'll be SOL... or switching away from Apple.
Music Home Sharing is nice for me anyway, we have everything centrally stored...alot of stuff either higher quality than iTunes or it doesn't have it..so mixing local and iCloud purchases gets messy it seems. So sharing was a nice local way to have it where we want it.
Video is a huge plus, i love it. can stream movies from the same location without interrupting...same with music too, don't have to get a family plan of apple music, while apple music is nice, we have what we need for now
I agree with irishv. I'm a bit sad to see the customizable menu go away. I'd put all the streaming stuff behind the "more" button as well. Not everyone wants to be controlled as to how they use their devices. If I don't want the Apple Music/Connect stuff on the main menu, I should be allowed to move it off and replace it with what I want. Not just a take/pay-for-it-or-disable-it BS choice.
I'm perfectly fine with you leaving it on your menu, why can't you be fine with people wanting it in a less prominent place? Thats all a customizable menu is... choice. Apple seems to be backing away from giving choices about things. I guess some people need that (others making choices for them), I don't.
Apple is slowly pushing "owned" music aside. (yes, I know you never own it no matter where you got it from)
With this Music app it feels like the next step for Apple is going to be: "If you didn't buy it from us, we don't want you to use it on your devices (...but maybe we'll let you keep it: on your computer, or if you give us money constantly, your phone too)".
It would be nice if there were a way to replace the Connect button on the tool bar while still allowing access to the page via some other, less prominent navigation. I'm not opposed to Connect, and it's certainly too early to judge its appeal. But it's not important enough to me to sacrifice precious screen real estate that I could be using for something like Playlists.
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The concept is fine, and it's great to hear that smaller artists have the same access as the larger acts. But while I enjoy music, I'm not obsessed with the daily happenings of celebrities and artists. If an artist I like posts an unreleased track, that's great, but not so much if I can only listen to it within the Connect environment. If anything I find it somewhat annoying how long it takes new tracks to become available and how they're sometimes only released to specific channels or individuals. Content such as this, plus things like rehearsal videos, selfies from Ibiza, etc., simply don't appeal to me enough to justify a dedicated button on the global navigation bar.
Did they actually get rid of it, or is it just hidden in this disaster of a UI?
I swear, Apple is taking lessons from Google in how not to design a UI.
Yeah, never change anything in your UI. That is evil because you are controlling as to how to use your products.
Just curious , has anyone figured out to get rid of the recently added section like it's been possible to do on iTunes for a while?
I guess that's what I'm trying to figure out, if this is worth it for an Artist. Though to be frank, this is definitely the wrong crowd to ask. I guess us "techie" people don't really care about celebrity/following the day to day of our favorite artist (I know I don't actually, except in a couple of rare occasions.) But many average people (consumers) do, otherwise there wouldn't be stupid shows like TMZ, or Extra.
It just kind of saddens me how jaded so many of you are here... (not you in particular freediverx, just Macrumors posters in general.)
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Apple is changing the UI to accommodate new 'categories' that require a new organisational level. There is 'Your Music', 'New Music', 'For You Music', Radio, Connect. 'Your Music' is split into 'Library' and 'Playlists' (removing Connect elevates Playlists into the first category) Artists, genres, albums, etc. are subcategories of the 'Your Music'/Library category. Genres are subcategories in the 'New Music' categories. 'Apple Music Playlists' and 'My Playlists' are subcategories within Playlists. These subcategories are accessed via a dropdown menu. Different stations in the Radio category are represented by tiles as a playlists in the 'For You' category. Different subcategories in 'New Music' are represented by blocks with tiles within them.
There is method to this madness and a surprising variety in how different subdivisions are presented (to best suit the type of subdivision). If all these subcategories were individually selectable for the bottom row of icons, you would loose this hierarchy of categories and all would have to be presented via the same method (icon in bottom row). The hierarchy and the different methods by which the subcategories are represented (dropdown menu vs tiles vs blocks) would be lost.
I rather doubt that Apple will make more money from streaming than from downloads and at best that difference will be marginal compared to the overall profits of Apple. Streaming is what an increasing number of people prefer (streaming services are growing steadily while downloads stagnate). By offering it, Apple provides people with (a) what they want and (b) in a way that provides users with something extra that other streaming services don't offer: integration with existing personal iTunes music libraries plus potentially better ways of discovering new music and great playlists. This of course helps Apple (by stemming the losses to other streaming services and making their devices more appealing, though with Apple Music coming to Android the effect is more indirect by making the brand Apple more appealing) but it is also designed to help the user (via the iTunes library integration and better discovery methods).
Reducing this change to an attempt to reduce choice by Apple is an extremely narrow point of view that hangs its argument onto one small change (having to use a dropdown menu to switch between albums, song, artists, genres instead of an icon in the bottom row) and ignores all other changes in its narrative.
I can appreciate your position here and it sounds like you're really trying to involve your fans, which is great. (And I'm not saying that sarcastically either - it is great.)
Some of us will love that. Others, like me, really don't care. To me, this is Ping 2. And I'm not interested.
In the my music section, when I sort by Albums, my albums are not in alphabetical order any more, any tip to see all my music albums arranged in alphabetical order like in the pre ios 8.4 music app?
Solution:Figured out the solution, need to go to settings, music and here sort albums by title. The default was By Artist.
Solution:Figured out the solution, need to go to settings, music and here sort albums by title. The default was By Artist.
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I probably didn't phrase it as well as it could have been. I've been doing that for a while on iTunes itself. However, I'm interested to find out if there's a similar toggle for Recently Added in the new Music app on iOS 8.4