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What enrages me to no end is that iTunes doesn't work well with my iPod Touch, a device designed to play music. 1. No, I don't want my iPod to use Apple Music
by hudibras 10y ago
What enrages me to no end is that iTunes doesn't work well with my iPod Touch, a device designed to play music.
1. No, I don't want my iPod to use Apple Music by default. I'm carrying a device with 20GB of music on it, I don't need you to search for a wifi signal on this train and then try to connect with my non-existent Apple Music account. And there's no way to shift this default setting to use the iPod internally-stored music.
2. Two days ago, I took a deep breath and tried to sync iTunes with my iPod for the first time in 6 months. All I wanted to do was move my one newly-purchased album that iTunes had (the new Radiohead, if you want to know) onto my iPod. I still don't know what happened but it ended up deleting all my music, which then required a full sync to move those 20GB back onto my iPod (which, as a reminder, is a device designed to play music.)
- rdtsc 10y agoA co-worker pays for the music on iTunes. Then goes and pirates the music and puts the non DRM-ed version on the portable music player.
- mwfunk 10y agoWhile their integrity is admirable, you should let your coworker know that iTunes music has been DRM-free for about 6 years now. :)
- kaosjester 10y agoCompare this to Spotify Premium: - Syncing an album for offline play is a checkbox. - I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other device logged into the account - Robust song discovery - Massive back-catalog - HD Playback It's absurd that iTunes, my phone's native media player, is worse than a third-party app.
- threeseed 10y agoApple Music has ALL of these features. Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users. Apple is great because of Beats 1 and their curated playlists. But the core features are basically identical.
- krisdol 10y agoSpotify is great for many more foreign and obscure genres and artists. It's nowhere near complete, but it gets closest to having everything I look for.
- thirdsun 10y ago> Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users I guess you've never experienced rdio? There we had a real thriving community of music lovers. Albums were discussed in comments under the item in questions, comments were rated, replies could be added. Popular and recent comments of your friends were featured on your frontpage. The heavy rotation section revealed a single users' (or a group for that matter) current taste at a glance, I could start any user's personal radio station. Compared to that Spotify is a social tragedy - the activity tab has to be one of the most disappointing areas of the service. I can shout, but nobody can get back to me or discuss anything there.
- subliminalpanda 10y agoI would love to try rdio, but since I do not live in the US I can't register at all.
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- devin_lane 10y agoYup. I ditched the built in music player after they insisted on making it worse and worse every release. I installed Google music right when it came out and haven't looked back. Pretty much the features Spotify has, but I was able to upload all my songs that gmusic didn't have.
- finalight 10y agotoo bad it's not available at my country yet
- bydo 10y agoIssue 1: Settings App -> Music -> Show Apple Music (toggle this off, obviously) Issue 2: iTunes being so terrible is probably the best argument against resolving Issue 1. I believe the default is not to automatically use Apple Music, though, and rather to prompt the user to try it. I know that I declined, and haven't seen it since. Though the iOS Music app has been getting worse every year regardless. I keep meaning to write a replacement that just operates mostly the way it did until iOS 6 or 7.
- sosborn 10y ago> I keep meaning to write a replacement that just operates mostly the way it did until iOS 6 or 7. We should partner up and procrastinate together.
- MaysonL 10y ago> We should partner up and procrastinate together I would join that club.
- Natanael_L 10y agoI'd think about it, but I'd never get to applying
- cannam 10y ago> We should partner up and procrastinate together. "Displacement Activity Swap Shop" http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Displacement_20Activity_20Swap_20Shop http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Displacement_20Activity_20Swa...
- cheshire137 10y agoSo I have "Show Apple Music" set to off in Settings, yet still when I get out in the boonies with a really weak cell signal, opening Music will result in a black Apple Music splash page that never fully loads, blocking me from accessing all the music I've synced to my iPhone. I end up having to turn on Airplane Mode to access the songs on my device. It's so stupid.
- jimmaswell 10y agoMaybe you should just install an old version of iTunes
- hudibras 10y agoI'm seriously, seriously considering this. Just gotta figure out how to make it happen. But my guess is that since my ipod touch is fairly new (1 generation old now) it won't work with old iTuneses.
- losty 10y agoJust install Vox for iPhone. Much better music player.