Apple Music Trying Apple Music for the first time

[Cave Man]

My credit card recently added Apple Music subscription as a perk, so I have been testing it out.

My god, what a disaster. I thought iTunes was bloated and overwhelmingly complicated. It has nothing on Apple Music.

I searched for an artist, chose a song that I liked and started playing it. I then chose "Create Station" and it added one other song. Now, these two songs just play over and over. Shouldn't a "station" include more than just two songs?

And navigation - how does that work? Nothing about it is intuitive. It's like Music just makes up its own lists that it thinks I'll like. Electronica list shows up; never listen to electronica, so why the hell does Apple Music think I'd be interested in it?

I think I'll just stick with PlexAmp. As bad as it is, it's sure better than the Apple Music mess.

/rant

 

[cynics]

What device were you using?

I'm assuming the home section is what you found 'overwhelmingly complicated'? It's definitely busy but it's mostly for discovering new music. You can search or goto 'library' for music and playlist you curated. IMO it's not as clean as it was in iOS 18.

Creating a station should play endlessly without looping. It will only show the next song but it shouldn't be looping. Personally I never had a problem, it's my preferred way to discover music.

When you first use Apple Music it has you love, like or dislike genres to get started with recommendations. Then based on listening history and you favoriting and 'suggest less' tracks it tailors recommendations better over time. Making up its own list based on what it thinks you like is exactly what it's doing, with time it gets better but it can never read your mind.

Apple analyses each track for harmony, tempo, instrument types, mood, etc etc for recommendations. Electronica is a vey broad umbrella term not limited to what most people initially think, way too generic to 'not listen to'. Apple Music doesn't know if you like Radiohead for the rock or for the electronica initially. Radiohead was just an example, you can insert Linkin Park, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, Kanye West, The Weeknd, Billy Ellish, Jay-Z, etc etc, electronica is represented heavily in all genres for 50+ years.

Sticking with what you prefer is generally the best approach. If you ever find yourself trying Apple Music again I would give it more time get a feel for it and try to favorite tracks you like and 'suggest less' tracks you don't.