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Apple Music |OT| Apple Invents Music, Time To Party Like It's 1989!
- Thread starter HUELEN10
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infiniteloop
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If you don't want purchased songs, you can 'Purchased is false' to the smart playlist criteria.
DaleinCalgary
Member
With being able to download music from the app for free I'm glad I got the 128
strikeselect
You like me, you really really like me!
Seems like the second option helped. Thanks for this.
I got an iCloud Music Library error at first. Had to turn off both the Apple Music and iCloud Library option multiple times until it worked. We'll see how it goes.
Since I haven't turned on iCloud music library or added anything to it, this Smart Playlist is blank. That's how it should be right?
really???? weird..
it's a playlist created in iTunes (don't think you can do it on iOS) that automatically stays current based on criteria. Really that simple. So when it was introduced you could do something like "Song year > 1979 and song year < 1990 and genre = pop or genre = rock"
you could even then include smart playlists inside of other smart playlists.. so you could have one playlist with just "Song year > 1979 and song year < 1990" and then another playlist to say "playlist = 80s playlist and genre = pop or genre = rock"
So does Smart Playlist play nice with Apple Music? If I make one on iTunes and add it to my phone with the criteria of say, kpop, will it automatically add ALL kpop songs that I add from Apple Music?
I dont even see the Kendrick version of Bad Blood at all
GreatMightySymp
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Trying out the 3-month trial, am I right in assuming that if I wanted to keep this, I can get rid of the iTunes Match subscription I'm already using since Apple Music's subscription allows for the same thing?
Same reason I can't play Prince or Bob Seger songs. Not part of the service. There was a lot of talk about Apple Music giving you access to everything on iTunes, but that was completely false it seems.
Yep, been commented on quite a bit in this thread. I was one of the people that used to bag on the Spotify UI, but that thing is godly compared to the iTunes UI.
JrBaconCheeseburger
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I am trying the 90 day trial.
Is it me or is this iTunes pretty awful? UI?
Seems all UI is pretty crap these days at apple but this iTunes is all over the place.
Is it me or is this iTunes pretty awful? UI?
Seems all UI is pretty crap these days at apple but this iTunes is all over the place.
Yes. Apple Music alone is enough complexity to fill up a whole application. Then they squeeze in video, podcasts, iOS devices and other stuff. It's too much.
SmackCrackleNPop
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You have to be running iTunes 12.2. If going to update within the app doesn't work, try downloading from the website.
JrBaconCheeseburger
Member
I wish they would just use the iTunes store / Movies /TV Show dark theme for apple music instead of all this white.
Too much white everywhere.
I will continue to use for remainder of trial but will not drop spotify.
Too much white everywhere.
I will continue to use for remainder of trial but will not drop spotify.
I mean, it changes with every artist and whenever you go into a song though. Better than the constant black and green ugliness of Spotify.
I'm pretty sure there is something you can change to make that the way you want it..I'll have to look at mine later tonight.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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With all the local file issues going on with Match and album art disappearing or being messed up, I'm cool with just listening to it as just a streaming service. Nothing more nothing less. I'll have Google play for all my local stuff since it handles a whole lot better, simpler and free tbh.
Garou
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Right click the album -> properties -> tab "Sorting" -> enter "Super Mario Galaxy OST 1" as album-name for sorting.
I am. Where do I go though? On windows.
in the song/album properties (in iTunes) change the sort by option. probably the easiest fix would be to have the non-numbered album sort by Galaxy 1 in your case.
edit - beaten damn it.
pretty sure only the hopeless dreamers believed it would be 1:1 with the store. Pretty much every sensible person knew it would be restricted along standard streaming service lines. With that being said, apparently it DOES have 7M more tracks than Spotify..
I had to test it first, but the answer seems to be yes. I have one Bleachers song purchased, I added one from Music, and created a Smart Playlist where Aritst=Bleachers and it added both songs.
edit 2 - holy shit!!!!! All of this talk about smart playlists and I went back to look at playlists that I created probably 10 years ago and no god damn shit!!! They are all updated with everything I've added/purchased over the last 10 years. damn. this is AWESOME.
also one other thing I've realized on why you might want to add something you My Music... once it's IN My Music, you actually have the ability to edit the metadata. Going back to that Bleachers song I mentioned above, I can change the name, artist, album name, etc. So on the subject here of Smart Playlists, you could change the genre to something specific, that would then allow a song/album to be picked up by a smart playlist you have keyed on that genre. Or another thing I like to do is when buying Greatest Hits albums, changing the Year value to the actual year of the song for similar reasons.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8877129/apple-music-icloud-problems
I'm glad this is getting some coverage. I had a backup but it completely fucked up my library.
I'm glad this is getting some coverage. I had a backup but it completely fucked up my library.
I don't really know where it is either other than in the For You and New sections (along the top). I just go to search and it gives me the option of My Library or Apple Music.
Is it right that I can't just click an album in the iTunes Store that is available on Apple Music to add it to my library? I have to use Search / Apple Music? (in iTunes)
Some people paying for Spotify will but Spotify also has a free option. I don't see any reason for those people to want to start paying now. Of course this is just for iOS. When it comes to Android it will not have the advantage of being auto installed.
yeah I mean I was fine with Match, but the most infamous Match snafu for me is Blink-182 - Dammit. arghh..
It seems like a no brainer for Apple to offer a "correct bad match" option. I mean sure there is the potential to cheat or grief.. but there is ALREADY the potential to cheat on Match regardless.
eh, it was "down" for me like all day, until I realized it was JUST AT&T in the area and ONLY connecting to Apple. Once I went on wifi everything was fine. Not sure if that helps.. I mean I couldn't even access my iTunes account, and when I signed out (ugh), I couldn't sign back in until I connected to wifi.. fucking AT&T.
double check that you don't have "Show Music Available Offline" turned on.
right click the song and near the top of the context menu is "Make Available Offline". If it's a matched/uploaded song it should grab it in m4a. If it's an Apple Music song it will grab it in m4p. edit - you have to add it to My Music first to make it available offline. You can't just find stuff on Music and make it available offline without adding it to My Music first.
infiniteloop
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After you've added it to your Music and it's in iTunes, click the cloud with a down arrow icon.
Yep, seems like Match users like us have an advantage both in terms of the migration being simpler and already knowing how that aspect of Apple Music works
How do you do that?
Got the Shakes
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I listened for at least 2 hours today with Bluetooth headphones connected to my phone and maybe lost 10% over that span. I've played with Apple Music in general quite a bit in the past day and a half and according to my battery usage stats it hasn't even used as much power as home & lock screen have.
This is stupid. There should be a way to set a playlist as "offline" and any song you add to it automatically becomes available offline like you could with spotify.
TheZink
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Weird. Maybe I need to do a fresh install 😭
so apparently playlist URLs aren't working in iTunes OS X (not sure about windows). Sharing playlists now with Apple Music seems like an incredible opportunity, but bringing up the link in 12.2 just drops you off at the last New page you were at. I did open the link on my phone and it opened in Music correctly though.
oh well. Hopefully fixed soon.
fwiw, here's a 90s slightly more mainstream alt rock playlist I put together from my actual collection a few years back.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/90s-alt-rock/idpl.e819726f670f4ef7b9c6686caf431849
oh well. Hopefully fixed soon.
fwiw, here's a 90s slightly more mainstream alt rock playlist I put together from my actual collection a few years back.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/90s-alt-rock/idpl.e819726f670f4ef7b9c6686caf431849
You quoted two completely unrelated things from two different people fyi.
On iOS, by default when you just "Add to My Music" it will add the cloud copy. On "My Music" though if for whatever reason you have that option turned on that I mentioned, it will look like the song didn't add to My Music, when it did but you are only showing downloaded songs.
The second user's problem is the way iTunes 12.2 currently works on the desktop. On iOS, there is an option on Music songs to "Make Available Offline" which will both add them to My Music AND download them. On the desktop, it seems you can only first add them to My Music, then download them from there.
regarding YOUR actual complaint, you can designate playlists (on both desktop and iOS) as "Make Available Offline" and it will download the whole playlist. I'm not sure if you add a song to that playlist after that then if it will then download that song also. I suppose I can test that.
edit - ok, I just tested it and what you were complaining for is exactly how it works. If I create a playlist, then say "Make Available Offline", anything I add from music into that playlist a) gets added to My Music, b) gets added to the playlist, and c) is downloaded to your device to listen to offline. So it's "just like Spotify", but again neither of what they were asking had anything to do with your invalid complaint.
Well that depends. With the trial they may have gotten used to the merging of local libraries with Apples, a feature Spotify lacks.
Certainly thats the main reason I only ever dabbled with Spotify.
As much as I'm annoyed by how poorly the local library in iCloud works (unlike googles seamless experience - albeit with the fact that you take longer as it uploads the whole thing) it comes closer to what I want, which is basically Google Play Music but with excellent curation/recommendation/playlists.
Of course if I'm unable to massage the iCloud upload to work properly and/or the android app turns out terrible, I'll probably just return to Google Play Music and live without the curation.
fwiw, my initial iTunes Match upload was god awful. Like one of the worst experiences I've had with music (including ripping the ~500 discs to begin with). HOWEVER, once that was completed (days.....), aside from the probably 1:1000 or so bad matches (usually clean instead of explicit) it has worked amazingly well. to the point that I look at comments like "how poorly the local library works" and I am actually confused. For me it's basically been my entire library on every device and desktop I have. which is what it's advertised as. Curious as to the problems you've had.
Any way to clear it all at once or do I have to go artist by artist? They fucked metadata on most of my things ulploaded to iCould Library and it pisses me off.
infiniteloop
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There's no way to get to an artist or album page that Beats 1 is playing in iTunes 😒
Well I've been seeing track mismatches, wrong cover art (and in some cases different album data as the track I have is matched with the same track in a different album), or just errors in upload with the iCloud Status just listed as error and its unclear why it failed.
I selected all my music in iTunes and deleted it. ( Be Careful. It just deleted from iTunes for me but I don't want someone to get all their music deleted )
I selected delete. Not sure what Remove download does. ( Maybe Remove download just deletes from iCloud and I would not need to add it back to iTunes but I am not sure )
Then I added just one song to iTunes and then updated iCloud music library. Checked my phone and all that was in the My Music section was the one song. Then I started adding a few artist at a time and updating iCloud Music Library each time.
File > Library > Update iCloud Music Library
I am sure there is a better way to do it but it is working for me.
I selected all my music in iTunes and deleted it.
I selected delete. Not sure what Remove download does.
Then I added just one song to iTunes and then updated iCloud music library. Checked my phone and all that was in the My Music section was the one song. Then I started adding a few artist at a time and updating iCloud Music Library each time.
File > Library > Update iCloud Music Library
I am sure there is a better way to do it but it is working for me.
Looks nice, but this will destroy "date added" data, right?