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

My iPod classic used to skip tracks as well, it was just harder to notice unless you say watching the display

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.

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!

awesome

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.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/11/apple-ending-itunes-music-downloads/

(Update: Apple Says 'Not True')

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.

hearts are back. uh okay.

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.

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

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%.

also since ios 10.1.1 the You may also like section is now called FUSE.Product.YouMayAlsoLike.CapitolCase

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.

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.

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.

how about remembering what state you were in / what minute of the 2 hour mix i was at you piece of shit app

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.

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

i think my official stance is everything is garbage, bring back what.cd

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!!

also, for those who have been using apple music, is there a way to get notifications when a particular artist has something new?

no but you get a notification when an apple bug deletes all your local music

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.

can someone explain why the search function takes forever sometimes

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

why do some albums have random missing songs?

Broke w Expensive Taste is missing Idle Delilah (Spotify has it)

the Goofy Movie soundtrack is missing Stand Out?????? (meanwhile Spotify is missing Stand Out too so idk, why would one song my Tevin Campbell be on the OST but another song of his has licensing issues?)

I saw a woman using this ON ANDROID today. Who even? I mean what?

sample clearances or label disputes xp

when I'm in the office I use apple music on my work phone (galaxy) so that if I get phone calls while listening to music I don't have to switch headsets. I had googled "apple music android" on my phone preparing to look for some 3rd party app that would let me do it, it didn't occur to me that apple actually had an android app too.

Leaving one album track out might be some sort of tactic to encourage people to buy the whole thing (tho this might make more sense if several tracks were omitted).

so, I searched for the album in apple music to see if it prompts you to buy the song in the error message, and when I pulled up the album Idle Delilah is there! And included and playable.

But when I opened the album through my library (via artists, or albums, or whatever) Idle Delilah is grey and when I click on it it says "Item Not Available: This item can't be played". So I deleted it from my library and readded it, now everything is there. Weird. you can all rest easy tonight knowing the entire album is confirmed as available and intact.

As for Stand Out...I feel like my theory that Prince ghostwrote the Tevin Campbell songs on the OST totally explains this; wherever there's Prince there's contractual issues.

Valerie 68 isn't on Lioness (Amy Winehouse) for some reason which is really annoying.

it's never the crappy throwaway bonus track that no one likes that has the "contractual issue"

Anyone tried out much Dolby Atmos-mastered stuff? Anything interesting over regular versions?

I'm playing around with this on headphones and a USB DAC to headphone amp. There's this bit on Tiesto's "BOOM" that goes in a circle around your head. I guess they could've done it on the regular master, but it's pretty flat there.

The new Billie Eilish album seems better with some added breathing room. But most of what's available sounds worse.