Nastrodamous
Member
This thing keeps recommending me drake after I dislike every drake track list it's put up here. Also is there a way to see recently played tracks.
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Apple Music |OT| Apple Invents Music, Time To Party Like It's 1989!
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DOWN
Banned
When you pull up your "up next" queue, scroll up to see your song history
My god, I hope they fix it soon.
Just give me an option. If I want to transfer my whole catalog of music, let me choose.
OMG
What a bullshit. They don't let me send my local files to iPad.
iCloud off on iTunes, on on iPad.
Nihilistic Monk
Member
So, I can say "hey Siri, shuffle all my songs". How the heck can I do the same from the UI. If I go to "songs" there's no shuffle button like there used to be.
DOWN
Banned
Play one of your songs, hit the shuffle icon at the bottom of the now playing screen
whatevermort
Member
I've had to turn all Cloud stuff off on my iPhone because I don't want access to everything. What I want is the music I copy locally (so, the albums I want there), and then maybe one or two playlists of stuff from Apple Music.
It's a mess, really. I like it, admire it, but there's serious UI flaws. Major major flaws. So it's whether they fix it in the next three months that I suppose will determine whether I stick or just stay Spotify. (And, I suspect that's true for many people. This seems like such a mess for people to use- especially coming from the relative simplicity of Spotify. And while the playlists and radio are wonderful, far better than anything other services offer, adding a song to playlist is currently far more hassle than it need be. And listening to that playlist on anything other than the computer it was made on? Hassle.)
Did you just dislike them in radio only? I believe Radio section is separated from For You.
You have to choose "I don't like this suggestion" for those in For You by long pressing that album.
holygeesus
Banned
My latest bizarre issue, is with songs that are greyed out on iTunes but *not* on iOS
Example:
iTunes
iPhone
Check track 4. It plays fine on my iPhone but not on iTunes Mac. Any ideas?
Example:
iTunes
iPhone
Check track 4. It plays fine on my iPhone but not on iTunes Mac. Any ideas?
I guess you cannot make a playlist of songs without first adding them to your music. Spent time making a playlist of songs on my iPad and saw the check mark saying it was added. Went into that playlist and it was mostly empty except the songs I had added to My Music before. So its not like Spotify where you can create a playlist of songs to stream or download but you need to add the music to your library first then you can use those songs to create a playlist. Otherwise none of those songs you added on your device will show up.
I'm really enjoying the service and will definitely sign up when the trial is over but reading your posts makes me glad I don't have spotify to compare it to as this is my first use of a music streaming service.
I agree with most of the comments though about the UI and I'm amazed for a company that purchased beats for so much money to launch with the mistakes they've made.
They should have just purchased spotify.
I agree with most of the comments though about the UI and I'm amazed for a company that purchased beats for so much money to launch with the mistakes they've made.
They should have just purchased spotify.
Why not just try spotify for free? You'll know right away if it's better or worse (it's better). Apple has some serious work to do to make their service palatable. Namely the UI. Spotify still has a lot to work on too, but at least their UI doesn't get in the way of the music.
MoodyFog
Member
Probably assumed it was an error, since you can't dislike Drake
For now I have a walkaround. Turning off iCloud on iOS, syncing local music from iTunes, turning iCloud back on. It's a pain in the ass and it uploads music to cloud from iOS but still, it's something. I bet they won't change it and it sucks.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Is there no way on iOS to shuffle between all of an artist's albums? If you gave more than three albums saved it groups albums together visually, which is fine, but there's no shuffle option
MCR: three albums, grouped, no shuffle
Billy Talent: two albums, not grouped, shuffle
MCR: three albums, grouped, no shuffle
Billy Talent: two albums, not grouped, shuffle
Wow, this is a big oversight on Apple's end.
This really bothers me. I like to shuffle an artist music often. Fix this shit Guerilla.
Got the Shakes
Member
Is the workaround for that to tap the three dots, hit add to up next, and the shuffle from the up next screen?
Zeyphersan
Banned
It's not even just missing the shuffle function. There's no way to just play through an artist's stuff in ANY order if you have more than two albums saved. One album won't go to the next automatically
That's doesn't work. There's no shuffle option on the up-next screen, and if you add all the albums to up next, start playing, and then toggle the shuffle, it just won't. It will obey the up-next order
This is such a shitshow. How could something like this have been missed?
centracore
Member
My latest bizarre issue, is with songs that are greyed out on iTunes but *not* on iOS
Example:
iTunes
iPhone
Check track 4. It plays fine on my iPhone but not on iTunes Mac. Any ideas?
I ran into this issue as well, had to remove the albums with greyed out songs from my iCloud library and re-add them.. seems to have fixed the issue for now but only time will tell.
Interesting read: Heres What Apple Music Looks Like to Artists
Unless there's an appreciable difference in artists available on Apple that aren't Spotify... seems like a hard sell to me at this point.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Based on their wording, at least the Apple TV v3 should also be getting an update to support it
Mr. Wonderful
Member
I love Beats 1, but the equalization they put the bass through is ridiculous. So loud.
Interesting to see. I applied for Connect a fwe days ago, but have not heard back yet. I was pretty on-board with that write up until they mentioned their site does a similar service in their impressions at the end.
Always-honest
Banned
Even worse than normal radio?
eyeball_kid
Member
Can't you click on the ... on each album and add them to a playlist, then play the playlist on shuffle? I know that's extra steps, but it should work.
Yeah, I only started noticing this today. They seem to be putting a compressor-limiter on Beats 1 to push the volume up (a la what normal radio stations do). It's not as bad as normal radio stations, but it definitely feels over-compressed. I hope they get enough feedback to turn this off.
infiniteloop
Member
Is there a way to 'force' a refresh of the iCloud Library? I made a change to a playlist on my Mac, but the change isn't showing up on my iPhone.
I don't get this thing at all.
So there's a list of artists similar to the ones in my library, alright. There's also a bunch of big names like Madonna or Katy Perry, even though I neither have their music in my library nor listened to them using Apple Music. Whatever.
When I followed one of them, a message appeared at the bottom. Translated from German: "As you're now following someone, you can see their posts at 'Connect.'" Fine. First off, I had already started following about 20 artists when I installed the iOS app, so why "as you're following someone now"? Anyway, there's a "Go to Connect" button right next to this message. When I click it, the Connect page just reloads. So again, I just see a list of artists and no posts or anything like that.
When I click an artist's name:
Though for some, there is no avatar (and no blurred background), even though is an avatar in the Connect page.
What's the point of this? Why an empty page? Even if they haven't posted anything and there is no biography available, shouldn't I at least see their music? Anything?
edit:
"An error occurred."
And that's it, I guess. It's broken. I have already tried restarting iTunes. Still getting the same message.
Had a thought on how nice it would be to force the Itunes pop out player to stay on top of all other windows. Turns out there's a setting for that so no other application needed
Probably been there for a while it's just been so long since I've used iTunes I didn't know about it yet...
Probably been there for a while it's just been so long since I've used iTunes I didn't know about it yet...
Zeyphersan
Banned
That will literally work, yes, but I definitely wouldn't call that a solution. I shouldn't have to make a playlist to listen to an artist's music, either beginning to end or shuffled. It's a basic thing that's been in iTunes and iPods since 2001
I'm sure you can. I've been adding streaming songs from my iPhone by making them available offline. And it's available in the cloud now for me to make offline on my pc. Doesn't seem to be interfering with my local music I own. Maybe you are asking something different and I don't understand.
HUELEN10
Member
You can have both, song streams if it is not on your local machine. If you offline download that song, it gets DRM'd.
GAF being down ate the guides I attempted to put in the OT sadly, I am sorry; please understand.
I am out and about, but will try to retrieve them once I get home.
Why I click "add to my music" on a streaming song, it asks me to enable iCloud music library. The two options to enable it are "merge" or "replace". I chose merge and it deleted most of my locally stored songs and replaced them with streams.
I see no clue why that happened. I selected merge and everything was fine for me I think. How can you tell it was replaced by streamed versions?
Because the little phone symbol was beside the songs that were still on the phone. And some of them were replaced with live versions and different artwork
Have you tried just showing the songs only stored on the phone locally to see if maybe they made duplicates or its in a different place on the phone? I checked my phone and every song I had locally before iCloud music merge still shows the phone icon. I didn't have any live versions of songs though.
You can do a search and find that different devices (even different software) AirPlay at different rates of compression.
I really hope they will remove iCloud Library as a must to get full Apple Music experience.
When I add music or playlists and have them as "offline download" they are gone the moment I turn iCloud Library off.
Or at least give option not to upload localy synced tracks to cloud.
When I add music or playlists and have them as "offline download" they are gone the moment I turn iCloud Library off.
Or at least give option not to upload localy synced tracks to cloud.
Searched in all the obvious places but I can't find a way to download all the songs from a playlist (that I made) to my device. I only see the "remove downloads" option. Sucks to have to do every song one at a time
Edit: oh dumb, just looks like an oversight. If even one song in the playlist is downloaded, the make available offline options turns into "remove downloads"
Edit: oh dumb, just looks like an oversight. If even one song in the playlist is downloaded, the make available offline options turns into "remove downloads"
Its interesting how peoples perceptions colour so differently. I consider it already ahead of Spotify, but that's simply because Spotify lacks a critical feature for me (a music locker ofr content not on their system). The big negative is that Apples sharing of user playlists is terrible (to the point of uselessness) compared to spotify's.
Of course I consider Apples a bit of a nightmare compared to Googles system that just works. Of course googles works because you upload your whole library so there's no chance for it to fuck up.
Can I no longer see all songs by an artist if they have three or more albums? If I click an artist's name twice it's just a blank screen. Pretty ridiculous, all songs by artist is my default view. Apple Music has screwed up the app and has no music I like available. What a disaster (for me).
infiniteloop
Member
anybody's playlist stopped syncing between mac/iphone? started about 12 hours ago.