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TikTok Launches Support for Adding Songs to Apple Music Library

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TikTok today launched its new "Add to Music App" feature with support for Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music.

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The feature allows users to directly save songs they find on TikTok to their preferred music streaming service library via an Add Song button located beside the track name at the bottom of a TikTok video. Users can also use the Add to Music App feature from an artist's Sound Detail page.

The first time a user presses the button, they will be asked to choose their preferred music streaming service and it will default to that service from then onwards. Any added songs will also be saved to a new playlist in the music app and users can select other playlists to add to if they wish. The Add to Music App feature is now available in the U.S. and UK, with more countries to follow.

Article Link: TikTok Launches Support for Adding Songs to Apple Music Library
 
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TikTok is such a scam. It’s not that I have anything interesting for the Chinese to steal personal data wise, it’s that by using such a creepy app, I am facilitating profiting a company owned by the Chinese government and thus profits them. No thanks. And unlike Apple devices, which also profit the Chinese unfortunately, I have no real alternative choice if I want smart devices. I do have a choice to use TikTok or not.
 
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GuruZac said:
TikTok is such a scam. It’s not that I have anything interesting for the Chinese to steal personal data wise, it’s that by using such a creepy app, I am facilitating profiting a company owned by the Chinese government and thus profits them. No thanks. And unlike Apple devices, which also profit the Chinese unfortunately, I have no real alternative choice if I want smart devices. I do have a choice to use TikTok or not.
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100% Agree.
Unfortunately, no person I know seems to care.
 
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GuruZac said:
TikTok is such a scam. It’s not that I have anything interesting for the Chinese to steal personal data wise, it’s that by using such a creepy app, I am facilitating profiting a company owned by the Chinese government and thus profits them. No thanks. And unlike Apple devices, which also profit the Chinese unfortunately, I have no real alternative choice if I want smart devices. I do have a choice to use TikTok or not.
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Sounds like a double standard. Why is that?
As with Apple, did you know thousands of Americans work for the company?
 
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summiter said:
Sounds like a double standard. Why is that?
As with Apple, did you know thousands of Americans work for the company?
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It is somewhat of a double standard. But in my job, I have to have smart devices, and thus my options are limited to manufactured in China, thus of all the choices I choose Apple. But I don’t have to use social media, and certainly don’t have to use TikTok. It’s an algorithm designed to essentially erode the pleasure pathways in the brain, as has been demonstrated in neuroscience just recently. Big reductions in dopamine and dopamine receptors throughout the VTA and Nucleus Accumbens, diminished hippocampus/amygdala size as well. Social media is just dangerous beyond an hour a day. It’s addicting because it’s stimulating the same areas of the brain that reinforce drug addiction. TikTok is a bigger offender because of the nature of how the UI is designed, the short videos then swipe, and the intentional algorithms used, that might I add, are far more damaging than the Chinese allow in their own version.
 
This article fails to mention a key limitation: the song you’re “adding” must be available in the streaming service you choose.
 
The sinophobes always come out whenever an article about TikTok gets published.

If you don’t like TikTok, don’t use it. If you’re worried about tracking, I hope you apply that same standard to the willful participants of Project PRISM, for whom the implication of having your data collected is much bigger if you’re in a western country compared to the CCP having your data.
 
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Why doesn’t tiktok provide Spotify integration, is it because Apple paid for exclusivity?
 
summiter said:
Sounds like a double standard. Why is that?
As with Apple, did you know thousands of Americans work for the company?
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Apple is not owned by a CCP like organisation. Do you understand the difference between a public enterprise and government owned entity?
 
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Capeto said:
The sinophobes always come out whenever an article about TikTok gets published.

If you don’t like TikTok, don’t use it. If you’re worried about tracking, I hope you apply that same standard to the willful participants of Project PRISM, for whom the implication of having your data collected is much bigger if you’re in a western country compared to the CCP having your data.
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Dislike for the CCP is not at all equitable to Sinophobia.
 
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DFZD said:
There is no concept of private ownership under CCP rule. We all saw how AliBaba founder went missing for months.
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It’s right there in the name. Chinese COMMUNIST party. And somehow people are still surprised.
 
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GuruZac said:
It is somewhat of a double standard. But in my job, I have to have smart devices, and thus my options are limited to manufactured in China, thus of all the choices I choose Apple. But I don’t have to use social media, and certainly don’t have to use TikTok. It’s an algorithm designed to essentially erode the pleasure pathways in the brain, as has been demonstrated in neuroscience just recently. Big reductions in dopamine and dopamine receptors throughout the VTA and Nucleus Accumbens, diminished hippocampus/amygdala size as well. Social media is just dangerous beyond an hour a day. It’s addicting because it’s stimulating the same areas of the brain that reinforce drug addiction. TikTok is a bigger offender because of the nature of how the UI is designed, the short videos then swipe, and the intentional algorithms used, that might I add, are far more damaging than the Chinese allow in their own version.
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While you try to sound studious, you are not accurate.

I believe you’re referring to the RE, and it is highly weighted to a user’s expressed and discovered interests.
GuruZac said:
It is somewhat of a double standard. But in my job, I have to have smart devices, and thus my options are limited to manufactured in China, thus of all the choices I choose Apple. But I don’t have to use social media, and certainly don’t have to use TikTok. It’s an algorithm designed to essentially erode the pleasure pathways in the brain, as has been demonstrated in neuroscience just recently. Big reductions in dopamine and dopamine receptors throughout the VTA and Nucleus Accumbens, diminished hippocampus/amygdala size as well. Social media is just dangerous beyond an hour a day. It’s addicting because it’s stimulating the same areas of the brain that reinforce drug addiction. TikTok is a bigger offender because of the nature of how the UI is designed, the short videos then swipe, and the intentional algorithms used, that might I add, are far more damaging than the Chinese allow in their own version.
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I’m guessing you’re trying to wrap your lack of knowledge of the RE in general reward system neurology to sound like you know what you’re talking about.
The recommendation engine was not “designed to erode the pleasure pathways…”. It’s actually pretty elementary and uses content classifiers for recommending things of interest based on stated and discovered interests.
TikTok leads in parental and usage management controls and options. TikTok has the largest STEM-focused offering of all social apps. “Short videos”? Do you know what the average/min/max length of a TikTok video is? You decided not to note any of that.
100% agreed that using any app is personal choice and you are of course free to continue not using any of them.
You have zero actual knowledge of Douyin, it’s RE, or the controls the communist government places on it.
 
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