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The Apple Music app on macOS is also hot garage.

by pier25 3y ago

aniforprez 3y ago
Apple TV is also somehow hot garbage I don't understand. These are "just" media players and all split up to do one thing each. How do they all do that one thing so miserably. TV hangs for multiple seconds every single time I download or delete episodes of TV shows and the player is so incredibly bad and doesn't save your progress properly
- fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
  Huh, it never occurred to me that you could download episodes on an Apple TV. What’s the use-case? I download shows on my iPad so I can watch them when I’m traveling without internet, but my Apple TV is always plugged in. Intermittent connectivity in the home? Maybe bugs stick around because the feature is rarely used?
  - abhinavk 3y ago
    It's small enough to be carried when you are traveling. You could take it to hotels.
  - aniforprez 3y ago
    I'm not talking about the device btw. I am indeed talking about the TV app that comes preinstalled on Apple devices. I watch from my Macbook. The TV app is confusingly also Apple TV with a subscription service called Apple TV+ My use case is I've found that, for reasons unknown, the streaming quality is worse than if I download the episodes. Streaming always stays at 720p or lower whereas downloading gets me 1080p every time. And being able to watch things when I move around even with spotty internet
piva00 3y ago
It's incredible how bad it is both for macOS and even on iOS. I know people like to criticise Spotify's UX/UI but whenever I'm using Apple Music on my partner's devices (she has AM, I'm on Spotify) it's a quite marked difference in snappiness of the UI, Apple Music for some reason has the same weird loading behaviour that the App Store suffers from (and sometimes even fucking System Settings on macOS goes through), and I can't understand how Apple can drop the ball that much in their own platforms...
sillywalk 3y ago
It's definitely one of the worst apps I've ever used in a long time. Finder is another POS. Slow. The main "Listen Now Screen" is slow. It's an un-cached webview or something, that should be instantaneous. The "Search area" is on the scrolling side bar on the left, and the toggle for searching between Apple Music and just your own library is on the right. It's not in the toolbar at the top where it should be and where it is on damn near every other macos app. The lyrics can't expand to bigger, unless you switch to fullscreen mode, and then they're often unreadable because of the background colours.

The Apple Music app on macOS is also hot garage.

by pier25 3y ago

The Apple Music app on macOS is also hot garage.

Apple TV is also somehow hot garbage I don't understand. These are "just" media players and all split up to do one thing each. How do they all do that one thing so miserably. TV hangs for multiple seconds every single time I download or delete episodes of TV shows and the player is so incredibly bad and doesn't save your progress properly

fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
Huh, it never occurred to me that you could download episodes on an Apple TV. What’s the use-case? I download shows on my iPad so I can watch them when I’m traveling without internet, but my Apple TV is always plugged in. Intermittent connectivity in the home? Maybe bugs stick around because the feature is rarely used?
- abhinavk 3y ago
  It's small enough to be carried when you are traveling. You could take it to hotels.
- aniforprez 3y ago
  I'm not talking about the device btw. I am indeed talking about the TV app that comes preinstalled on Apple devices. I watch from my Macbook. The TV app is confusingly also Apple TV with a subscription service called Apple TV+ My use case is I've found that, for reasons unknown, the streaming quality is worse than if I download the episodes. Streaming always stays at 720p or lower whereas downloading gets me 1080p every time. And being able to watch things when I move around even with spotty internet

piva00 3y ago

It's incredible how bad it is both for macOS and even on iOS. I know people like to criticise Spotify's UX/UI but whenever I'm using Apple Music on my partner's devices (she has AM, I'm on Spotify) it's a quite marked difference in snappiness of the UI, Apple Music for some reason has the same weird loading behaviour that the App Store suffers from (and sometimes even fucking System Settings on macOS goes through), and I can't understand how Apple can drop the ball that much in their own platforms...

sillywalk 3y ago

It's definitely one of the worst apps I've ever used in a long time. Finder is another POS. Slow. The main "Listen Now Screen" is slow. It's an un-cached webview or something, that should be instantaneous. The "Search area" is on the scrolling side bar on the left, and the toggle for searching between Apple Music and just your own library is on the right. It's not in the toolbar at the top where it should be and where it is on damn near every other macos app. The lyrics can't expand to bigger, unless you switch to fullscreen mode, and then they're often unreadable because of the background colours.