My biggest UI beef is not being able to search Apple Music and My Music at the same time.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
find u a girl who can do both
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
still randomly skipping tracks, a lot. apple music tracks. i'm even working off a totally clean database. this should straight up not happen. their magic revamp really needs to fix dumb shit like this.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 5 May 2016 06:12 (eight years ago) link
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
i swear to god I have never once had this issue people complain about. I can only think that they're doing something really weird or wrong.
― akm, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
"still randomly skipping tracks, a lot. apple music tracks" is this while streaming? how is your connection?
― akm, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
I haven't experienced track skipping either, with neither local or streamed music. Not to say other people don't, just that I haven't personally.
― Jeff, Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
have you experienced wholesale deletion of local files?
utterly baffled as to why anybody would give these clowns access to their system/storage
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
the cloud is a lie
it's almost economically feasible to just run your own cloud these days
I just have a hidden board on ilx where I encode my files as text and then post them, it's very good
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
streaming did 9/11
― map, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
lol apple
― Treeship, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
seriously though it's bad and lame xp
― map, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Subsonic
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
is that any good? I use Plex for home streaming and like it.
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
It's very good and works a charm, not that hard to set up either. I've heard Plex is similar.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
I mostly use Plex for video streaming, the PS/Apple TV bits are pretty nice
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
i use plex for streaming my old library plus video, it's fine. it stutters a bit if I stream to my phone over the data plan and not on wifi but otherwise it's great.
― akm, Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
lol at "update"
http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/05/05/apple-officially-discontinues-webobjects/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
all tracks downloaded and connection is solid. no errors popping up. when it skips, i go straight back and it plays the skipped song like nothing happened.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 5 May 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
this time around i deleted my whole library and started from scratch, so it's not even a 10yo corrupt itunes library. playing an mp3 is hardly a pioneering task. i'm assuming the code base is terrifying and hilarious.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 5 May 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7523/26782080441_edbf152024_o.png
Confirmed, I use Apple Music and still have all my original local files.
― Jeff, Friday, 6 May 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
Same problem with the skipping tracks on iOS but I would only notice this by looking at my phone and seeing artwork flash by (ie the song does not start it just seems unplayable). I've been having this problem on iPhone way before apple music and he files in iTunes do not seem corrupt so I suspect it's a phone issue?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link
I've been having this problem on iPhone way before apple music and he files in iTunes do not seem corrupt so I suspect it's a phone issue?
same here. i think it started happening around ios7/8 (hence me assuming my itunes db was corrupt). i scrapped and resynced the music db several times but the skipping continued. my ipod classic's playback never missed a beat syncing with the same itunes library. so yeah, ios/music app issue, most likely down to shitty code.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 6 May 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
My iPod classic used to skip tracks as well, it was just harder to notice unless you say watching the display
― stet, Friday, 6 May 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link
lol @ the webobjects saga
afaik webobjects is pretty good, definitely solid for enterprise-type development. i don't think any startups are going to jump on that technology stack any time soon, though.
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 6 May 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
It was also great for iOS back ends, especially with native plist support when that was by far the fastest thing on iOS.
We retired our final bit of WO at work this month. It started in the objective C days!
― stet, Friday, 6 May 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
awesome
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
I did quite a bit of WO work back in 1998-1999 when it was still a NeXT product. Good times, but never dealt with it since then.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 6 May 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/11/apple-ending-itunes-music-downloads/
― ulysses, Thursday, 12 May 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link
(Update: Apple Says 'Not True')
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 12 May 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
i just added a playlist in itunes and my phone stopped playback. when i started playback all my hearts were gone. the rebuild wants to be impeccable because this current service is trash.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 13 May 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
hearts are back. uh okay.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 13 May 2016 09:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.imore.com/apple-confirms-reports-potential-bug-itunes-safeguard-patch-expected-next-week
In an extremely small number of cases users have reported that music files saved on their computer were removed without their permission. We’re taking these reports seriously as we know how important music is to our customers and our teams are focused on identifying the cause. We have not been able to reproduce this issue, however, we’re releasing an update to iTunes early next week which includes additional safeguards. If a user experiences this issue they should contact AppleCare.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 14 May 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
Good to know that a couple of idiots button mash-deleting their entire libraries is occupying the dev team's time, rather than oh I don't know, something important like FIXING MATCHING
― MrExplorer, Saturday, 14 May 2016 07:13 (eight years ago) link
on the whole the new ios app redeems its weird ugliness by being pretty solid. the only functional bug i have now is that non-downloaded songs get loud after 6 seconds. apparently it's been this way since the ios 10 betas.
also there's a fuzzy rumour that individual & family subscriptions will drop by ~20%.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
also since ios 10.1.1 the You may also like section is now called FUSE.Product.YouMayAlsoLike.CapitolCase
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
it's skipping tracks again. a major rebuild and it still can't do the one thing it's supposed to do.
when i go to android i think i'll ditch this. apple has completely lost the plot.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
I'd say I'm about 95% satisfied. One annoying issue: My Loved songs playlist has about 2500 songs that I keep downloaded on my mobile. However when a song becomes unavailable for whatever reason, the playlist shows as not being completely downloaded and I have to scroll though all those songs to see which one has been grated out. Takes a good 5 minutes. Minor annoyance.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
on top of that, when it downloads tracks as normal and one gets stuck, it interrupts me (with a modal dialogue) to ask whether i want to try again. instead of just trying again. this shouldn't ever happen and indicates their ui design is being done by circus clowns.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 November 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
how about remembering what state you were in / what minute of the 2 hour mix i was at you piece of shit app
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 November 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
and updating/downloading playlists automatically. and not deleting my downloads. and not undoing my loved songs.
i swear they didn't address most of the major bugs. record-breaking profits and vastly overpriced hardware, and they can't pay four developers to fix this bloody thing.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
why the hell does apple music just list every release, even guest spots, under "albums"
i've cycled through most of the streaming music apps by this point and Tidal (tidal! of all things) is the only one that does albums/eps/singles/guest appearances correctly
i mean, it's all splitting hairs as to what counts as a release but wanting to see a newer artist's 2 - 3 albums and having to sort through a dozen "albums" that are singles or different versions of a single with one remix is ridiculous
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
i think my official stance is everything is garbage, bring back what.cd
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah spotify puts singles under "new releases" mixed with albums and ep too, it's obnoxious
i just signed up for an apple music trial after i figured out that sonos can't play spotify local files. i like how local files and streaming files in apple music coexist so seamlessly, and after a few painful minutes i think i got the hang of adding things to my library and THEN adding them to my icloud library (instinctively i still wanna drag stuff to my phone but whatever).
so i love that, i love having smart playlists back, and i love that i can control the album art of my local files instead of spotify picking some random image via match and forcing it upon me.
so things i don't like (which is always a longer list no matter what i'm talking about):
-no list view of library, just bigass icons on my phone-have to manually mark any locally added album as "compilation" if it has more than one artist-playlist offerings are terrible...i guess playlists are only visible if a "curator" made them? i liked that on spotify people would have already taken the time to make useful playlists public...like someone created a playlist with all the songs from jock jams 1-5, or someone else made a playlist with the billboard top 100 songs of 1972-when you are scrolling through a specific artist's albums, the number of tracks is not specified. this really is only a big deal when i'm adding stuff from older artists, like when i'm scrolling through ray price's discography i want to add the most thorough anthology i can find to my library, but i have to open each album to see if it's some cheapo 10-song compilation or not.
anyway i have it free for three months so i'll give it a try. try to win me over apple music!!
― musically, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
also, for those who have been using apple music, is there a way to get notifications when a particular artist has something new?
― musically, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
no but you get a notification when an apple bug deletes all your local music
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 02:27 (seven years ago) link
the ios app is infinitely more robust, but occasionally it'll refuse to play certain songs and i need to restart my phone. 'my favourites mix' is pretty good apart from being moderately repetitive and giving me the same fennesz song every fucking week (unloving it seems to have kept it away).
ON IPHONE 6 i'm forever having to tap screen elements 2–3 times before they fire, but i have ui issues with springboard too so it's probably just ios 10 being laggy on old iphones.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
can someone explain why the search function takes forever sometimes
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link
because this world is your own personal hell that you've created.... now you have a choice: you can stay here, and have access to millions of songs at your fingertips but it's all a LIE.. or you can take the red pill and i'll show you how to use some other app bc fuck apple lol
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link