Zeyphersan
Banned
I just mentioned this earlier today! If you have more than two albums for an artist, it's impossible to shuffle all their songs or even play all their songs in order, it makes you choose an album
It's unbelievable
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Apple Music |OT| Apple Invents Music, Time To Party Like It's 1989!
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I just mentioned this earlier today! If you have more than two albums for an artist, it's impossible to shuffle all their songs or even play all their songs in order, it makes you choose an album
It's unbelievable
You can shuffle all songs by pressing on the artist artwork on the first music screen. It'll play the first song in their catalog, and if you have shuffle turned on it'll go from there. Not ideal at all though, especially if you want to start at a specific song.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Well that solves half my problem, thank you
infiniteloop
Member
Dave Wiskus wrote a piece on how shitty Connect is for artists:
http://betterelevation.com/disconnect/
He got a follow up email from Trent Reznor this afternoon to say Apple is aware of the growing pains and is working to address them.
http://betterelevation.com/disconnect/
He got a follow up email from Trent Reznor this afternoon to say Apple is aware of the growing pains and is working to address them.
Ingueferroque
Banned
I prefer the content, but I miss Spotify's interface. Apple Music feels like an alpha, broken, slow, confusing to work out, and the artist pages look like their stylesheet is broken.
Hoping they can iron things out, or perhaps I will get used to it. Definitely willing to switch from Spotify just for the Beats1 content alone.
Hoping they can iron things out, or perhaps I will get used to it. Definitely willing to switch from Spotify just for the Beats1 content alone.
holygeesus
Banned
Oh well played sir. Star-man thanks a lot!
Seriously Apple, I appreciate this is early days, and while these blips are acceptable while the service is still free, I will be less patient if I have to manually go through ~50% of my library and delete and re-add them all the time, when I am paying for the privilege. Sort it out!
Thanks for this. I had no idea this was the case. Any reason why it would compress iPhone Airplay more?
Go into the Apple Music tab in Settings and enable cloud.
Isn't Beats 1 free regardless?
holygeesus
Banned
Fantastic. Thanks again.
Seems a bizarre move, to have a lossless streaming system, yet detract it by downsampling. Will stick to the Mac when possible.
eyeball_kid
Member
The audio chip on the iPhone literally doesn't support 24-bit bitrates. It supports up to 192 sample rate (if memory serves), but the bitrate is stuck at 16. So iTunes won't even let you drop 24-bit music on your iPhone. Hopefully if Apple starts to sell lossless music on iTunes that'll change. If you're saying that even 16/44 music gets compressed on the iPhone, I don't see any technical reason why they'd do that.
While the app still needs work, I love the for you section. The recommendations and wonderfully curated playlists are spectacular. Beats 1 is also amazing.
The content on Apple music is wonderful, but there are some major Iuues with the app. Hopefully Apple fixes the issues quickly, cause the overall service is great imo.
The content on Apple music is wonderful, but there are some major Iuues with the app. Hopefully Apple fixes the issues quickly, cause the overall service is great imo.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
When I tried Beats Music when it launched last year, the playlists and recommendations were already top notch, glad that it's continuing. It really makes a difference. So many times it presents something just what I wanted.
Hopefully they do iron out the app, it's a little laggy (moreso on the iPad than on the iPhone) and using iTunes for this is laughable. They do have time to figure it out and judging by someone noticing how shoddy the Connect app is for artists (and that artist getting an email from Trent Reznor himself saying they do hear the responses loud and clear) I think the app will improve dramatically by the time iOS9 rolls around. Hoping for a few UI tweaks as well.
Hopefully they do iron out the app, it's a little laggy (moreso on the iPad than on the iPhone) and using iTunes for this is laughable. They do have time to figure it out and judging by someone noticing how shoddy the Connect app is for artists (and that artist getting an email from Trent Reznor himself saying they do hear the responses loud and clear) I think the app will improve dramatically by the time iOS9 rolls around. Hoping for a few UI tweaks as well.
show me your skeleton
Member
my main issue is that each UI change will involve an entire system/firmware update as the music app is part of the OS and not standalone like spotify. could mean much slower updates.
HUELEN10
Member
Or it could mean more frequent system delta updates, or cloud updates ala Apple Maps.
EricTheCleric
Member
But you don't have to pay for Beats1 to get access to its "content" (radio stream), also you could try listening to other radio stations streams as well. BBC have quite a few good ones accessible through their own player or radio apps such as TuneIn Radio.
Also I still have not found any good playlists or curators that don't have anything else than old music or what is supposed to be new music but appears to be abandoned playlists.
As a Android phone user with an iPad I don't really understand why Apple has apps that are part of the OS. Mind I explaining why for example music isn't just a stand-alone app that comes pre-installed with the OS and can't be uninstalled?
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Well if you look at the history... iPhone had preinstalled apps that were a part of the hardware before there was even an app store. So OS-attached apps predate the concept of even having newly installable apps.
Why they haven't changed that? I guess they want you to use their apps.
Actually, you can see the fruits of their their control with Apple Music. Had they not kept us locked into their music app for 8 years, they couldn't attach their music service to it, trojan horsing the service into the core use of the phone.
Apps absolutely should be independently updatable without OS updates, though....
Thanks. It's the last part about apps not being independently updatable that baffles me the most.
Keyser Soze
Member
Did you understand set up right,
Some weird stuff could have slipped through with
It does even itself out though - at least for me. Mine was recommended Nickelback for a while (help.....), but now seem to be good..Giving me interesting stuff like Reggae Inspired Rock and Bossa Nova Pop playlists. Neither is something i would auto chose to listen to - but found both enjoyable.
Did you understand set up right,
Some weird stuff could have slipped through with
It does even itself out though - at least for me. Mine was recommended Nickelback for a while (help.....), but now seem to be good..Giving me interesting stuff like Reggae Inspired Rock and Bossa Nova Pop playlists. Neither is something i would auto chose to listen to - but found both enjoyable.
I did indeed include Electronic during the initial setup, but I have removed it since then. Even after refreshing For You, Eminem, Daft Punk and several other Electronic artists are still there.
Keyser Soze
Member
My opinion is just keep going. Based on their T&C, Apple is tracking a whole bunch - including skipped tracks, how long you listen to single tracks down to the second, when you pause, stop, and what you search - they have a lot to analyse.
I have being both hearting and downloading loads of stuff I really like, and For You seems to have some idea about me. It messes up every now and then, but gets a bunch right too. Is it at least getting something right for you currently?
For You is technically targeted advertisements for Apple, so it is in their best interests to get it right. They should want to know about you very well to sell you as much as possible!
This is me right now...
I am a fan of both, but never listened to either on Apple Music before (I used Spotify), so I like that Apple have figured out I might like them based on other music I listened to.
show me your skeleton
Member
i've only recently started using an iphone so my knowledge of its update history is pretty lacking, were these cloud updates for things like UI etc. or where they more for the actual data used by Maps? with a map service it's easyish to update stuff like map data because that's kept on the server side. for Music that would be stuff like, adding more artists, improving Connect content, fine-tuning the recommendation algorithms etc., the UI would have to be a downloaded update i would assume?
i'm no expert though, so i could be way off.
EricTheCleric
Member
So If I play a playlist it album and I music stops playing because I set a sleep timer, it won't remember the location..... It just reverts to my local music and have forgotten what I played.
Also why is there not a separate use mobile data setting for Apple music streaming?
Also why is there not a separate use mobile data setting for Apple music streaming?
Just wanted to comment that you have good taste in music and should feel good about yourself.
That's all.
Keyser Soze
Member
I got recommended Tove Styrke by Apple's algorithms... and I think I like!
Sweden has a solid number of good female artists in their 20s!
Sweden has a solid number of good female artists in their 20s!
PurpleMoustache
Member
Finally upgraded my phone today (figured I'd wait till the first bug bashing patch, but whatever)
I hate streaming music. I like the ability to have things on a hard drive somewhere, so when the doomsday comes, I have my shit.
That being said, I quite like Apple Music. The for you really works, playlists are handcrafted and provide "intro's" to artists, which is a big plus for me, and if I want, I can still buy and own an album rather than "saving it for offline"
I hate streaming music. I like the ability to have things on a hard drive somewhere, so when the doomsday comes, I have my shit.
That being said, I quite like Apple Music. The for you really works, playlists are handcrafted and provide "intro's" to artists, which is a big plus for me, and if I want, I can still buy and own an album rather than "saving it for offline"
Frank Serpico
Banned
So far "For You" has been pretty smart in recommending me music I like, on spotify the suggestions were practically useless
infiniteloop
Member
can someone with an iPhone and a Mac try this..
on your mac add or remove a song from a playlist (don't have to delete it from your library, just change the playlist).
Do you see the change in the playlist reflect on your iPhone? Mine hasn't been working since yesterday.
on your mac add or remove a song from a playlist (don't have to delete it from your library, just change the playlist).
Do you see the change in the playlist reflect on your iPhone? Mine hasn't been working since yesterday.
MoodyFog
Member
Yes I do
Garou
Member
Of course you can, the button is right next to the volume slider.
infiniteloop
Member
Thanks.
anonymous_abc
Member
So how can I see the upload progress in iTunes?
The Ball at the top right is no longer there, but I doubt it's finished.
The Ball at the top right is no longer there, but I doubt it's finished.
infiniteloop
Member
It's worth following Apple Curators (Apple Music Alternative etc.) on Connect. They post new playlists there so you don't ned to go digging for them in the New section.
Guess it's just me then... There's no AirPlay button where it used to be.
holygeesus
Banned
You can't Airplay Beats 1 from iTunes, if that's what you are trying to do. Everything else works fine for me. No idea if it's a bug or feature.
Are you listening to any of the radio stations? Those can't be streamed. The icon disappears when you click on radio.
*edit* Some of them can't be streamed. Some can.
So I just did a Time Machine backup. If I turn on iCloud Music Library on my mac now and something messes up and my library gets destroyed (worst case), I can easily restore my iTunes music library through Time Machine, correct? I've never actually had to restore something yet through TM. Thanks!
Wind's Howling
Member
Anyone who used Spotify daily for years.. How do you like Apple Music? Are there things it does better and worse?
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
One of my favorite features of this service overall is the producer spotlights. For one, it definitely knows who my favorite producers are, but next to that, it also give credit to those people beyond everyone's knowledge. I have to look for the Missy and Timbaland spotlight.
This is definitly in beta state.
I'm having all kind of bugs. The worst being make available offline not working correctly when you own part of an album that has both a regular and a bonus edition. I think it is because I own songs from both versions.
That with all the frequent blank screens. I have even got some not available anymore error messages. A bit messed up.
However, I'll wait for a couple of bug fixes before I give final judgment. Those 3 free months must be for beta-testing.
I'm having all kind of bugs. The worst being make available offline not working correctly when you own part of an album that has both a regular and a bonus edition. I think it is because I own songs from both versions.
That with all the frequent blank screens. I have even got some not available anymore error messages. A bit messed up.
However, I'll wait for a couple of bug fixes before I give final judgment. Those 3 free months must be for beta-testing.
Keyser Soze
Member
My only guess is you might have this on by mistake, and Apple Music obeys this whereas Spotify bypassed the setting..
App does not pump out lower audio by default
Thanks! I have to admit, the service is growing on me.
Only thing it does better is integrating music I own with the music I'm renting, but even that is buggy as hell currently. Everything else feels like a huge step down from Spotify so far. The worst part of it so far for me is how bad the UI is on iTunes and how much using it on my iPad affects its performance.