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Apple Music |OT| Apple Invents Music, Time To Party Like It's 1989!
- Thread starter HUELEN10
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Quick question, I'm enjoying this only on iTunes on my mac, don't have an iPhone (just yet). Question is, if I edit tracks I specifically got from apple music, like lets say the name and genre tags, would it show up just like that on my iPhone when I eventually get one & sync or will it just default to apple music's default.
Wanna know if I should bother with it or not.
Wanna know if I should bother with it or not.
Zeyphersan
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Broken cloud of death. Figured it's always there when I can't add songs. Still have to figure out a consistent fix.
Have you guys tried turning off Apple Music/iCloud Music Library and turning it back on? Or would that fuck up too much of your stuff?
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Okay so I think Siri integration is fucking incredible. Say any song, she'll play it and you can basically forget purchases. But this UI is killing me. I'll still use it I bet.
But seriously how did they manage to make it so hard to go to see the full album of a song that's come up or a go to Artist option. They're so tricky and buried from certain screens.
But seriously how did they manage to make it so hard to go to see the full album of a song that's come up or a go to Artist option. They're so tricky and buried from certain screens.
HUELEN10
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I did, but it comes back. Doesn't fuck up with anything, but it's still not coming back online.
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Okay, if you go into a playlist and see a song from an album you want to look at, how do I quickly view the album or artist without changing the song? I don't see a "Go to Album" or "Go to Artist" option
Also, the UI is glitches and doesn't even poP up sometimes when you tap the options ... on a song. Just darkens the screen a hint as if the menu should be up, but it isn't.
Also, the UI is glitches and doesn't even poP up sometimes when you tap the options ... on a song. Just darkens the screen a hint as if the menu should be up, but it isn't.
jts
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So far I get some success rate when I restart iTunes and add songs from search. Not from Beats 1. Trying to add songs from Beats 1 will break it often. Very often. Just happened when trying to add "U Mad". And after it breaks it will not even let me add songs from Apple Music search. Have to restart iTunes.
Signed out and in entirely and didn't do much. I'm guessing a server side issue or growing pains, but for now it's cool.
edit: so yeah I further tested it and that's it. I restart iTunes, everything is fine. Add songs from Apple Music, either from search, "for you" or "new", all works fine and well. Try to add a song from Beats 1, it doesn't get added and it shows that broken cloud. Can't add any more songs after that, until I restart iTunes again. So it boils down to the fact that adding songs from Beats 1 (not other stations) is borked ATM for me at least.
Don't know how this plays out on the iPhone since I'm waiting for iOS 9.0 b3 to get Apple Music there.
TheAbsolution
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It's clearly a V 1.0.
This needed a few more weeks or so. It's a little messy right now which is weird for Apple. Hopefully they polish it by the time iOS 9 rolls around.
Broken cloud of death. Figured it's always there when I can't add songs. Still have to figure out a consistent fix.
i just had that too....
killed the app and started it again and now its all gooooood.
What does the heart symbol actually do? how can i look at the items i have hearted? sorry if this has been asked/answered before
Anyone?
There's no go to artist option, annoyingly.
However, you know when you bring up the ellipses menu there's a tab above 'start station' that has the name of the track, album and artist in it, and a little photo of the cover? That's clickable and will take you to the album. From the album you can then tap the artist name at the top of the album screen to go to the artist page. So it's two steps to go to artist straight from a song instead of one, unlike every other streaming app ever.
This threw me for ages coming from Spotify because it looks like an untappable header to me. I was looking for specific 'go to album' and 'go to artist' options. Which is how it works on iTunes (sometimes).
Another absurdly hidden feature - on an artist page, you can tap on their name to see similar artists and a biography. Their name does not look selectable at all, but there you go.
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See, the problem is I had already thought I figured that out and tried that because it looked like it should be clickable to me, but it doesn't work from every menu. If you click the info when browsing the Top Songs charts, etc., clicking that info doesn't do a thing. Doesn't bring up the album at all.
Mess.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Holy. Shit.
Hmmm, it seems to work ok for me?
I've gone to the New tab, scrolled down to top songs, selected the ellipses on a song in the chart, tapped the header and gone to the album.
That said, I've found a 'Introduction to St Vincent' playlist where tapping on the header for any of the songs just takes you to an 'unknown album and 'unknown artist' screen even though all of the albums are in Apple Music. Kind of embarrassing since St Vincent was one of their headline hosts on Beats 1.
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Not working for me. Bugs, most likely.
Zeyphersan
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Worked for me in the situation you described
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What devices are you guys on?
I'm seeing even more why it's confusing me. On iPad, it isn't working for me when browsing in the "New" tab. On iPhone, it isn't working anywhere at all, and I've been switching between those two devices.
Tried all the sections in the 'new' tab and it doesn't work for me in the 'Discovered on Connect: Audio' section for some reason. You can add songs to the queue but nothing else. Not sure if this is because these songs aren't in the library yet and you can only add them because they've been posted on Connect?
I'm on an iPhone 6. The interface needs a lot of work, no doubt. I added two songs to my library yesterday, not offline, and it won't let me remove them, either by trying to remove them individually or trying to remove the album. It'll let me remove other songs just fine, but not these two.
Well that's the problem with all these services and stores, unless I guess you have a Japanese account. And that's why a locker function is so critical for me (and also why I still buy CDs). certainly if I look at my music collection the stuff not on online services (to buy or stream) its 99% Japanese stuff.
And I'm not really sure why. Whether its Japanese music companies not wanting to sell their music in the west or some fear of reverse importing as they are with anime I'm not sure.
Zeyphersan
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iPhone 6 Plus. I'll keep messing around with it, but so far that work-around has worked as described
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they're missing:The Colourist - "When I'm Away" from the current Hulu campaign
I wish the girl would tho
Hearing that it only plays at 128kb/s over mobile data is disappointing - I know a low data setting is needed for people who don't have big data plans, but it should be a configurable setting.
GPM for example has a Low/Medium/High quality setting over data networks, at high quality it streams 320kb/s. I think Spotify is the same.
Hopefully it's just an oversight they'll correct shortly.
GPM for example has a Low/Medium/High quality setting over data networks, at high quality it streams 320kb/s. I think Spotify is the same.
Hopefully it's just an oversight they'll correct shortly.
I wish she would have like 15 years ago but now? nah, she can keep doing her Vegas thing.
Yes pls.
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Yeah, I've really tried to use lower nitrate to keep my data usage down, but I can hear it so I never can stick to it. It really should be an option.
I have a Japanese account, and the selection is certainly better I am sure, but have not signed up for it with my Japan account because I didn't have sufficient yen on my iTunes. I guess that is what I will have to do as I found out another really crummy thing about the service - if I change my iTunes Store region it simply stops playing. You can't use multiple iTunes accounts. I swear it's like Apple goes out of their way to make things crappy for international customers.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Tangentially related to Apple Music, I just heard they disabled home sharing in iOS 8.4
Wtf.
Wtf.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
Updated iTunes and now my whole library is fucked up. Has randomly rearranged fucking everything, on all my devices.
Here's one hilarious example of the shitshow that's become of my years old library:
Here's one hilarious example of the shitshow that's become of my years old library:
Should probably be added in the OP, but make sure you don't have "Show Songs Available Offline" checked on your phone.
Do you actually pay for Match? If you do, then Match will still be available with iCL turned off. If you don't pay for Match, then yes you will lose Match-like functionality with iCL turned off.
Anyone have an answer?
Answered above.
Hmm. Not seeing this toggle in settings. Where is it?
infiniteloop
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click on where it says songs or artists, just below the recently added.
Ah, thanks guys!
Frank Serpico
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Updated iTunes and now my whole library is fucked up. Has randomly rearranged fucking everything, on all my devices.
Here's one hilarious example of the shitshow that's become of my years old library:
welcome to iTunes Match, I mean iCloud Library
iCloud is garbage. I wouldn't trust it with anything I don't have to.
iTunes Match used to regularly be down, Music Library just gave me back all my deleted playlists, and the synced iOS keyboard shortcuts that I delete KEEP COMING BACK. The worst thing about my iPhone currently.
Oh and 5GB storage is a damn joke.
fake edit: also :lol at using iCloud to store and manage files. Pure shit.
iTunes Match used to regularly be down, Music Library just gave me back all my deleted playlists, and the synced iOS keyboard shortcuts that I delete KEEP COMING BACK. The worst thing about my iPhone currently.
Oh and 5GB storage is a damn joke.
fake edit: also :lol at using iCloud to store and manage files. Pure shit.
teruterubozu
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Yeah I wish we can delete recommendations on For You and Connect. I have one Chris Brown song on my list but Apple thinks I'm a big fan.
So far, the app has crashed on me at least six times as it starts to become unresponsive the deeper I try to dig into the app (on an iPad mini retina, if that makes any difference). So I'd say, the positives are: a nice interface that appears to be curated by actual people (UI is my biggest complaint with Spotify as I find it annoying), and the selection seems to be at least equal to the competition. With that said, the only way I'll continue using it after the trial is over is if they fix all the bugs and if they offer a student discount to match the one I have with Spotify (Apple, yeah right, huh?). Because as much as I dislike certain things about the Spotify experience, at the end of the day I have zero issues with actually getting the app to respond to my actions. Student discount also gives me less incentive to stop using it.
infiniteloop
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More likely that is wasn't available for streaming before, so technically it's 'new' to the service. Same with AC/DC, they only put their stuff up for streaming on Tuesday.
Tap on your user profile (little person icon on the top left of devices, or your account name in iTunes). From there click "Choose Artists For Me" and from there click reset and go through the process to establish a new baseline.
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Since you listened to Lil Mama's "Lip Gloss," here's some new tracks for you to try.
PodcastFips
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256 AAC