Siri No Longer Able to Rate Apple Music Songs on Request in iOS 15 and Later

[Localcelebrity]

And Final Cut Pro, AND MacOS itself. The initial release of OSX lacked a TON of features. Some folks couldn’t migrate until 10.1 and, even then, there were still lots of features that power users wanted that took a long time to be re-introduced and some have never been reintroduced.

But man, while people were up-in-arms at the time, I miss absolutely nothing about MacOS 9.

 

[Localcelebrity]

You reminds me to seek for other open source alternatives rather than iTunes for managing my music. It’s sad if star rating goes away, but that also means I have one less reason to stick to a Mac. Either way, I will pay close attention to next dot release of Monterey.

As for feature bloat, sure, that’s definitely one way to make software lighter, but there are many software that cuts power user features in favour of dumbing down used to be good software to make them more “modern”. Aperture comes into mind, also iWork suites, where newer version gets feature reduction to unbelievable level just to make software more “modern”.

Apple killing Aperture hurt me personally in a way that I have yet to recover from, I keep waiting for Photos to come even close to some of the workflow abilities it had. The fact that you can't copy and paste adjustments in bulk drives me bonkers. But... I digress.

Adding on to my comment though. Despite missing power user features of Aperture. I have my entire photo library from 2000 to today on iCloud and I can carry them with me on every device anywhere regardless of my local storage, the location info is in there, the facial recognition is in there. All of the things Photos does well as objectively done better than Aperture ever could have done on that clunky codebase built around a locally managed central library, while also letting user manage their own file structure if they preferred. That type of feature is just functionally incompatible with the future Apple was building towards.

Also, it's worth noting that every version of Aperture was painfully slow compared to Lightroom at the time and Photos today.

Priorities.

 

[mechno]

Does it work for you? Then we’ll know if it’s server-side or not…

It's definitely server side.

 

[mechno]

This is so typical Apple to remove features that people use and (for visually impaired users) depend upon like a thief in the night. They don't care that people are wasting time opening support tickets for a function that they intentionally pulled and never issued a statement or clarification.
This is SO irritating.

 

[Phaddydee]

This is my fault.

This was the only way for the user to enter a tiny bit of data into the music app.

I literally used it every time I listened to music... Must've been me bogging down Apple servers.