Apple Music Why cannot I feel the love for Apple Music?

[hippyeverafter]

As a person who is totally into the Apple eco system, Apple Music is the only service I cannot seem to embrace!. Over the past few years I have jumped in and out of subscribing but always seem to cancel after a few weeks or months. The latest offer was 3 months for £9.99 so I jumped in again in the hope it has improved in some way?. The main problem I am getting is for some reason the stream just stops whilst playing an album or playlist, I then have to close the app then reopen but I lose the position the playlist was at and have to start from scratch?. This morning the stream stopped, became unresponsive and I had to force quit and reopen the app again?. I also have a Qobuz account and never seem to have the same problem also I can close the app, reopen and resume from the last track played in the playlist.

 

[J.Gallardo]

I’ve never experienced sudden stops. The only annoying thing about streaming, and rarely happens, is the inability to start a double clicked song; Music jumps to following one. And once in a blue moon, Music can’t log in into my account when opening app; then, I just re-open it.

I’m loving AppleMusic, and more as years pass. I have my selected music well organized (5 year user) and proposed music is better curated with use. I don’t need to download anything, and my music and lists are instantly synced across devices. With hi res offering, it’s like having almost all published cd’s (and better) in rental.
I think I surrendered when my light work in selecting and actively classifying, (helped by algorithms, playing database, and whatever AppleMusic uses) produced a nice “music room” after a couple of years. I like it as my reference discotheque (worries me a little: stop paying, all lost. Does AppleMusic remember you and your lists when re-subscribing? I don’t know).

An example: a “J.Gallardo Radiostation” is made for me. It plays “random“, but choses “loved” by me, mixes with similar music (usually quite good to my taste!)… and, even keeps a “mood”, by style, tempo, or decade. I’m really getting paranoid, as music quite often matches weather, matches time of day. It’s quite fun! I love it.

There’re still a few hiccups (lyrics missing or mismatched), and still poor info about albums IMHO, but otherwise, everything works nicely for me.