Apple Music

“including the Music.app (iTunes), which doesn't need any Internet connection to play your MP3s.”

“The hip-hop playlist is 1000%; instant throwback to my 2000s living in Greater NYC”

“it auto-redirects to the Apple Music app for that link, with no way to prevent it”

“If you have Apple Music and you're on Windows, in the settings there is an option to downmix to stereo.”

“I like the solution I have well enough and both are cheap enough that it’s not worth thinking about how to export/import or whatever”

“It's way better now, and the recommendations are pretty good. The app is still crap though”

“It did all kinds of things like hiding your music library, merging your music with apple's music, all kinds of nonsense.”

“It could be ridiculously fast on your pocket supercomputer but the moment a web request gets fired off from stumbling blindly across the field-of-dung user interface”

“The new music playlist it gives me each week has introduced me to hundreds of new artists”

“When Apple gets something right, they really do get it right. A shame a lot of other aspects of Apple Music are bad or wrong.”

“Tried every conceivable player, Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube, Apple Music (local files), Soundcloud and more, all of them leading to the same thing”

“I can treat the catalog like an online store and my library like my personal CD collection.”

“On the phone it always defaults to searching the online store/music, instead of the local songs.”

“What about turning off the Apple Music service so that the only thing visible is your local content? That's what pisses me off the most.”

“I still use the Music app and it still behaves exactly as it did before they renamed it.”

“having to turn off System Integrity Protection as a prerequisite to uninstalling a music player is crazy”

“They make so shitty and offensive user experience that supporting them by not avoiding the vicinity of it is a crime against humanity!”

“You can turn off the cloud service in Apple Music and still use it with your local tracks”

“every time I'd start a google meet call (IIRC) or otherwise interact with audio on my MacBook it would bring up Apple Music”

“whenever I accidentally touched or removed my (Sony / non-Apple) bluetooth headphones, iTunes/Music would pop up without fail”

“I find the curation and the recommendations to be significantly better than Spotify.”

“I just hit Play and the music comes on. I'm not crazy about their search, but it's not that big a deal.”

“the buttons on them always start apple music when paired with my laptop instead of muting or controlling noise canceling”

“managed to transition those core services into Apple Music and iCloud with little to no disruption to users”

“I was appalled at how bad it was. The ui/ux of Spotify isn’t great, and has gotten worse over the years, but Apple Music’s was downright terrible.”

“Things like Apple Music integration and even safety things like cross-traffic alerts when reversing.”

“I love this about Apple and give them as much of my business I can to show that there is still a healthy market outside streaming.”

“Since Tahoe, it will play a couple (plus or minus a handful of songs) and then just stop rather than transitioning to the next song.”

“It will skip some songs sometimes and the ui is not very consistent for the player bar.”

“the playback controls were moved from the top of the window (which is now empty space) to a "transparent" panel that overlaps the content in the browser”

“Apple Music requires one more click to pop the multiplayer, UI is worse and the click hitbox for the progress seek bar is too small”

“I've been burned by music providers enough times to think that Apple will eventually follow the same path as the rest.”

“Apple Music and YouTube Music also let you upload your own files to a cloud locker and stream them from any device”

“I've never had Apple Music add random songs to my library and the closest thing to an AI DJ is AutoMix which is easily disabled”

“wouldn't you assume that AppleTV plays your video files, and Apple Music focuses on playing your MP3s?”

“Other times it fails to play my main playlist that I've played 1000 times before.”

“they let you upload music and have it exist natively in the interface and streamable anywhere you're logged in”

“The only downside is I have to use their app, which they have zero incentive to improve.”

“The apple music app I actual really like, probably because it's not actually easy to purchase anything through it.”

“These apps have all features I need, since all I want them to do is open my files and keep track of progress.”