Apple Music - anyone heard of it? Or not, I don't care.

xp the fact that it took them six weeks to not fix much indicates they've got mega-serious problems beyond a list of bugs. someone's got to be losing a job over this thing.

is heart's self-titled on apple music? can't tell

doesn't appear to be

Holding off on making any decision on this until iOS 9 and 10.11.

My quest to make my giant playlist available offline has hit a snag, my phone ran out of space... Which is interesting because I had the whole playlist offline on spotify, but came up 300 songs short this time. Are the AM files larger?

what quality level did you have spotify set to though

Good question, I don't recall! Can you change that in AM?

i think it's just stream vs download

spotify has a middle tier

xp the fact that it took them six weeks to not fix much indicates they've got mega-serious problems beyond a list of bugs. someone's got to be losing a job over this thing.

It still pauses on a network state change, ffs. Pretty sure I know why that is, and it shouldn't be a massive fix so not getting it into 8.4.1 is pretty filthy.

that and so many other bugs should have been fixed inside a week, which makes me wonder just how bad the code base, db design, etc. are.

last night it wouldn't download a playlist. i reset the app, the phone, tried everything i could think of, but the songs kept spinning without downloading. half an hour later they spontaneously downloaded, along with an album it had already downloaded three times last week (so there are four copies of each song now).

not sure whether good or bad tbh: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150818005755/en#.VdNYBhNVhBc

Among people who had tried Apple Music, 48 percent reported they are not currently using the service.

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of current users said that they were extremely or very likely to pay to subscribe to Apple Music after their free trials end. On the other hand, 61 percent reported that they had already turned off the auto-renewal option in their iTunes account settings.

http://www.mcelhearn.com/apple-music-head-leaves-before-the-end-of-three-month-trial-period/

was wondering when this would start to happen

tidal and apple should switch execs every three months

http://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/3rlpag/offline_music_management_will_be_clearer_in_ios_92/

Showing only music on this iPhone. Show all music.

http://www.cesium-app.com/

Showing only music on this iPhone. Show all music.

Infuriating.

Yeah I'm done with this, Guess managing an offline itunes library alongside spotify isn't the worst thing in the world though

I don't miss spotify in the least. Have they brought back stars yet?

They're hearts now.

thankfully my two ipod classics are immune from this junk.

iCloud library let's you go over 25k songs now. And iOS 9.2 released today with lots of AM improvements.

like wut

desktop AM is much smoother after update, less delay for every click :)

have they fixed the offline sync of large playlists?

It's getting there. I've had a few hiccups, but I have more confidence that it's almost reliable. It is much easier to tell what's available offline, indicators are much better.

One word of warning, it did wipe all my downloaded files off, so I have to do it again. Certainly an inconvenience.

reports of problems (while there, especially for files deleting themselves) are not at the frequency they used to be, so i've just signed back up to this. i'm home a lot atm, so if the whole thing fucks up at least i'll get a few bucks of streaming out of it.

my old 10yo itunes library was a corrupt mess, with routine playback issues on my phone for at least two years (songs skipping, stopping halfway etc until i restart my phone). because of that, itunes is running off a totally empty library this time. i'm about to upload the latest tmbg album via icml because it's not on streaming yet. anything else i'll find in apple music first and upload as a last resort.

although i've not actually done anything yet it just read a load of my own tastes back at me in 'for you', probably back from when it auto-followed a million artists i already had in my library (i thought it dumped all data after 90 days but apparently not). the interface is certainly nicer and faster than it was in august/september.

oh and all my study material is in onedrive or dropbox where apple music can't destroy it. above all that was the key reason i ditched apple music the first time iirc.

reasonably stable so far. a few hearts unhearted themselves when i added an album to my music, and the hearts in itunes don't all seem to make it to the ios app, but at least they're not fighting me like they were last year. songs can still take ages to start.

the tmbg album matched to a handful of early release songs, but by sheer luck they're identical to the album tracks. apple desperately needs to provide an icloud override.

the single biggest problem so far is that my iphone 6 get hot enough to fry eggs and the battery collapses, even when i'm just browsing and not playing or streaming anything. hoping it's something ephemeral like indexing because it's sort of ridiculous.

btw trent reznor hasn't updated connect since july, which makes me wonder what the hell strategy they have for this when their key artist-in-residence can't be arsed using it.

+ downloads have stayed downloaded
+ uploads have stayed uploaded (only two albums though, and one of them emptied the track numbers like three times)
+ better playlists: many are longer and the relevance is better, even though apple is apparently obsessed with daft punk and the beatles
+ "i don't like this suggestion" appears to do something now
- when i remove an album, it removes all those songs from all my offline playlists because reasons?
- loved tracks keep unloving for no reason, it's like apple doesn't understand how to cloud
- it skips tracks occasionally (plays 2–3 seconds then leaps to the next track)
- definitely more weird library omissions than spotify (e.g. incomplete albums)
- phone still destroys battery & gets megahot for 1/2 hr if i do ~2 minutes of browsing

worth hanging around for a while but i still don't trust it for anything important e.g. library uploads. if google ever bothers making youtube red international and adds an equaliser to ios i'll probably just do that.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-04/apple-to-revamp-streaming-music-service-after-mixed-reviews-departures

Apple Inc. is planning sweeping changes to its year-old music streaming service after the first iteration of the product was met with tepid reviews and several executives brought in to revive the company's music strategy departed.

The results will be on display in June at the developers conference, which will mark the one-year anniversary of Apple Music. Apple’s leaders have expressed optimism about the new look and feel the team is working better together, said a person close to the executive team.

Wary of a revamp. Much prefer the incremental changes they've been making.

almanac, how old is your phone and what version of ios are you running?

yeah, difficult to believe apple will suddenly fix it in one blow, but if they can sort out all the really deep bugs (shitty cloud upload/match, people's downloads vanishing) it'll be the best service available.

xp it's an iphone 6 with 9.3.1

I agree with your approach.

My biggest UI beef is not being able to search Apple Music and My Music at the same time.

find u a girl who can do both

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.

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

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.

"still randomly skipping tracks, a lot. apple music tracks" is this while streaming? how is your connection?

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.

have you experienced wholesale deletion of local files?

utterly baffled as to why anybody would give these clowns access to their system/storage

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

streaming did 9/11

lol apple

seriously though it's bad and lame xp

it's almost economically feasible to just run your own cloud these days

Subsonic

is that any good? I use Plex for home streaming and like it.