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The only reason I'm an Apple Music subscriber is because I'm on a family member's plan. There are so many usability problems with it on iOS that I would not con

The only reason I'm an Apple Music subscriber is because I'm on a family member's plan. There are so many usability problems with it on iOS that I would not consider paying for it myself — and iTunes is another level of terrible. I often times have trouble getting Apple Music to playback reliably! https://imgur.com/a/VrO1Y https://imgur.com/a/VrO1Y Spotify's UX is marginally better than Apple Music, but still not worth paying for in my opinion. Neither service allows me to block particular songs/artists from being recommended, which I find incredibly frustrating.

abalone 9y ago
You can "dislike" songs, albums & artists to influence recommendations. What are the usability problems you're experiencing?
- ProfessorLayton 9y ago
  Apple Music seems to ignore what I dislike, and will recommend it anyway. As for usability issues in Apple Music: - There are 2 ways to "dislike": Star> Play less like this and Heart> Dislike. What is the difference? - Liking/Disliking is always 2 actions. - If I'm listening to the Radio, I can only skip forward but not go back? Why? - There are a million pixels on my phone, yet I can only see 3 full playlists in the initial list view. The "New Playlist" button is displayed like an actual playlist. - The layout is a hodgepodge of poor recommendations and recent activity: -- The library tab starts with a list, and ends with a grid of albums, most of which contain one song picked out from that album. The recents in "For you" scroll horizontally. - The radio tab pretty much only consists of what Apple wants to push (Beats 1). There is also no way to delete recently played radio stations - When playback stops, there is no difference between a network issue (Buffering) and a bluetooth connectivity issue. Incredibly frustrating when driving. - The large album art display is nice visually, but it is not worth digging through a bunch of action menus that were created due to the lack of space.
  - dawnerd 9y ago
    I feel like AM also has a bias towards hiphop/rap it seems. If you look at new releases (which is pretty broken most of the time as it can go weeks without actually showing updates) it's all pretty much rap. Have to dig into genres just to see something different. Rdio did new releases right. Shame they're no longer a thing.
  - lulmerchant 9y ago
    >Apple Music seems to ignore what I dislike, and will recommend it anyway Before I moved to Apple Music, Spotify had spent the past several years trying to get me to listen to Fleet Foxes, no matter how many times I asked them to stop. Apple's got a lot of UI issues, which shouldn't actually be that hard for them to fix. Their playlists however are definitely not as good as Spotify's are.
- jasonbarone 9y ago
  Oh god where to begin? Apple Music is a disaster. I moved to AM from Spotify 2 months ago in anticipation of Homepod. It’s so incredibly bad.
  - masterleep 9y ago
    Try it on CarPlay. It was designed by an evil genius to get in the way of what you want to do at every turn.
- orbitur 9y ago
  For me it's just search. It remembers none of my habits and assumes I want whatever is trending/popular in the autocomplete. I search up quite a few artists that produce no autocomplete results, even though they exist. I have artists I'd like to bookmark but not add to my Library of songs. Search is really the only way I interact with the app. Stuff I've added to my library just sits because it orders by Recently Added instead of recently listened. I tend to stick to the same artist for a couple days, and there's no way to simply reorder. If I switch to another audio playing app, such as Overcast, and the phone connects to my car, Apple Music decides to take over and plays some random fucking song I've downloaded. I have to open Overcast and make it play again. But whatever I was actually voluntarily listening to in Music before the phone connected to my car is now gone, and I have to look it up again.
yorby 9y ago
I never used Apple Music but having only 2 bars on some mobile phones can mean no reception at all (or only 2g) because they didn't update it yet (on purpose or not, I don't know)

abalone 9y ago

You can "dislike" songs, albums & artists to influence recommendations. What are the usability problems you're experiencing?

ProfessorLayton 9y ago
Apple Music seems to ignore what I dislike, and will recommend it anyway. As for usability issues in Apple Music: - There are 2 ways to "dislike": Star> Play less like this and Heart> Dislike. What is the difference? - Liking/Disliking is always 2 actions. - If I'm listening to the Radio, I can only skip forward but not go back? Why? - There are a million pixels on my phone, yet I can only see 3 full playlists in the initial list view. The "New Playlist" button is displayed like an actual playlist. - The layout is a hodgepodge of poor recommendations and recent activity: -- The library tab starts with a list, and ends with a grid of albums, most of which contain one song picked out from that album. The recents in "For you" scroll horizontally. - The radio tab pretty much only consists of what Apple wants to push (Beats 1). There is also no way to delete recently played radio stations - When playback stops, there is no difference between a network issue (Buffering) and a bluetooth connectivity issue. Incredibly frustrating when driving. - The large album art display is nice visually, but it is not worth digging through a bunch of action menus that were created due to the lack of space.
- dawnerd 9y ago
  I feel like AM also has a bias towards hiphop/rap it seems. If you look at new releases (which is pretty broken most of the time as it can go weeks without actually showing updates) it's all pretty much rap. Have to dig into genres just to see something different. Rdio did new releases right. Shame they're no longer a thing.
- lulmerchant 9y ago
  >Apple Music seems to ignore what I dislike, and will recommend it anyway Before I moved to Apple Music, Spotify had spent the past several years trying to get me to listen to Fleet Foxes, no matter how many times I asked them to stop. Apple's got a lot of UI issues, which shouldn't actually be that hard for them to fix. Their playlists however are definitely not as good as Spotify's are.
jasonbarone 9y ago
Oh god where to begin? Apple Music is a disaster. I moved to AM from Spotify 2 months ago in anticipation of Homepod. It’s so incredibly bad.
- masterleep 9y ago
  Try it on CarPlay. It was designed by an evil genius to get in the way of what you want to do at every turn.
orbitur 9y ago
For me it's just search. It remembers none of my habits and assumes I want whatever is trending/popular in the autocomplete. I search up quite a few artists that produce no autocomplete results, even though they exist. I have artists I'd like to bookmark but not add to my Library of songs. Search is really the only way I interact with the app. Stuff I've added to my library just sits because it orders by Recently Added instead of recently listened. I tend to stick to the same artist for a couple days, and there's no way to simply reorder. If I switch to another audio playing app, such as Overcast, and the phone connects to my car, Apple Music decides to take over and plays some random fucking song I've downloaded. I have to open Overcast and make it play again. But whatever I was actually voluntarily listening to in Music before the phone connected to my car is now gone, and I have to look it up again.

yorby 9y ago

I never used Apple Music but having only 2 bars on some mobile phones can mean no reception at all (or only 2g) because they didn't update it yet (on purpose or not, I don't know)