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But man they try awefully hard to compel you I am sick of seeing my 15-plus-year music collection relegated to the "Downloaded Music" ghetto of my iphone. Appl
by tomc1985 9y ago
But man they try awefully hard to compel you
I am sick of seeing my 15-plus-year music collection relegated to the "Downloaded Music" ghetto of my iphone. Apple's shitty cloud service is not nearly as high quality or cared for as lovingly as mine and I am sicking of seeing it front and center
Play Music does the same thing with the online storage locker... but at least they're hosting my music for free (and streaming me transcodes :/) and letting me download it again
- ndaiger 9y agoI don't use Apple Music either. I just dislike the idea of not owning something so near and dear to me. It works OK for me after turning off the "Show Apple Music" option in Settings->Music. The only really annoying bit left after that is touching a band name link doesn't take me to that band in my library, it goes to some Apple Music type page with everything available, not just what I own.
- eridius 9y agoWouldn't your music also show up in the rest of your library? The "Downloaded Music" section is just music that's already on your phone and therefore you can listen to without an internet connection. But everything in there should also be present in the other sections of your library.
- tomc1985 9y agoIt gets mixed in with that free U2 album and all the various Starbucks codes I redeemed 10 years ago :/
- eridius 9y agoYou can hide music from your library. Apple put out a support page on how to do exactly that something like a week after the U2 debacle. Here's how to delete from iCloud Music Library: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201323 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201323 Here's how to delete iTunes Store content: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204343 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204343 For the latter, it says that deleting something you haven't downloaded will hide it from your purchase history as well.
- abalone 9y agoWell you imported those Starbucks songs yourself so you can't really blame Apple for that. Try the "Delete from Library" option -- it works great.
- tomc1985 9y agoPerhaps but I never explicitly requested or copied that music to my phone, yet it appears there anyway.
- Doctor_Fegg 9y agoUse another app. I've just moved from the built-in Music app to Ecoute and it is so, so much simpler.
- tomc1985 9y agoThanks for the tip. Apple's first-party apps used to be top-notch :( Part of the reason I switched from Android was to avoid this kind of BS