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Anecdotally, Apple Music has deteriorated exponentially for me. iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software, but I can't get reliable use out of Apple Mu

Anecdotally, Apple Music has deteriorated exponentially for me. iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software, but I can't get reliable use out of Apple Music for the life of me. It _feels_ like a shoddy Electron app. But that's not fair to the actual Electron (or similar) apps that actually work. For all its many design and product flaws, Spotify actually works.

cassianoleal 2y ago
I never liked iTunes. I always found it horrible and difficult to find my way around. Apple Music makes me miss those days.
wrs 2y ago
It really is bad. I mean, the navigation design is bad to start with (just back, no forward? Genres are under Search?), and it’s buggy. It hangs randomly and sometimes it just doesn’t make sound (you had one job!).
1980phipsi 2y ago
The podcast app is the same shoddy-ness. Re-arranging things in the queue is such a PIA.
- JoshTko 2y ago
  podcast app is the worst, I can never find what I'm looking for
  - lostlogin 2y ago
    > I can never find what I'm looking for Overcast might be the app for you. No affiliation, I just like it.
    - frereubu 2y ago
      Another vote for Overcast.
    - zimpenfish 2y ago
      Overcast is definitely the least worst of the iOS podcast apps but it does have its own set of UI/UX annoyances.
    - draebek 2y ago
      Unfortunately, Overcast's update towards the tail of last year ruined it for me and many others. It no longer functions reliably in my experience.
    - webdever 2y ago
      I've used Downcast forever. No complaints. No idea how it compares to Overcast.
    - pasc1878 2y ago
      My main issue with podcast alternatives is that onbe feature I use is walk into a room and ask Siri to play a podcast. That works with Apple but not anything else. What is the latest podcast has to sync across devices. However any maintainance or search for podcasts is crap with Apple and better elsewhere.
  - 112233 2y ago
    have you tried their "books"? you cannot search by almost anything! Extra-strangely, selecting book language is macos-only feature! Does anyone even maintain it?
- DrillShopper 2y ago
  Apple Music, at least when I last used it, could not handle copying podcasts to my old iPod Video - this is now handled in Finder, as best as I can tell. It will copy the tracks, but it doesn't properly flag them as podcasts so if I switch to another track and then go back to the podcast it does not remember my location. Never had that problem with iTunes.
  - bombcar 2y ago
    If you set your podcasts as AudioBooks and copy them in THAT area, it remembers where you were, at least. But you have to play them through Books.
    - DrillShopper 2y ago
      I did find that workaround and then I just scrapped that Mac (because it was a Mac Mini that lost OS support) and went back to using gtkpod on Linux.
choilive 2y ago
If Spotify doesnt work they are dead in the water. If Apple Music doesnt work, thats a rounding error.
ohgr 2y ago
It's a bit hit and miss for sure. If you turn off the subscription and Apple Music portal stuff it works fine though. I use it with a cable to sync to my iPhone with offline files I ripped with XLD from CDs. It's all the network crap that breaks it.
hbn 2y ago
Apple Music on Mac definitely needs a ground-up rewrite, though I worry it'll lose uncommonly used features, like the ability to upload and stream your own music. I think a lot of Apple Music weirdness is from the fact that it's been built up over the years upon iTunes, which was essentially a completely different product that offered different thing. No one is really buying digital music any more, but they still need to handle everyone's old libraries and purchases, so there's a weird disconnect between your local music library and your cloud Apple Music library. So there are completely separate screens for viewing e.g. an album in your local library versus "in the cloud" even though they're both views for the same content. Incidentally the iOS Music app has generally been pretty good to me, but starting in the most recent iOS update has been having crashing issues. I'm not sure what exactly causes it, but it's typically when I rearranged the queue then minimize the player to get back to the home/library screen.
- amluto 2y ago
  The upload-and-stream-your-own-music feature, as handled by the Mac desktop Apple Music app, seems to be 90% bug and 10% working. I can’t imagine a rewrite being worse than the status quo.
  - joshuaturner 2y ago
    Funnily enough that's the one feature that works pretty well for me and is keeping me on Apple Music as opposed to Spotify. Considering the state of every recently made/"remade" first party Apple app I cannot imagine how horrible the Music app would be after they got done with it.
    - janfoeh 2y ago
      That feature is the single worst thing Apple has done I have ever encountered: it stole my music library. At some point when migrating from one Mac to another, it "forgot" which songs were actually mine. It's all Apple Music now. I have songs that the application _knows_ were added to my library in 2003, but for which it steadfastly maintains they're Apple Music downloads. Worse: some songs have been replaced with other recordings. Other are "unavailable" for unexplained reasons.
soulofmischief 2y ago
I love that I had to install a shim service [0] with the same ID as Apple Music's since it can't otherwise be turned off, which was causing Apple Music to appear every time I pressed a media key but had no media playing. That's the kind of shiesty KPI-boosting tactic I'd expect from Windows, not a machine I paid almost $4000 for. Apple comes installed with a ton of irremovable bloatware and somehow gets a pass. [0] https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/
- kjkjadksj 2y ago
  They’ve been doing that bullshit with the media keys since it was still itunes
criddell 2y ago
I use Apple Music on my Windows work computer and it's pretty good. I still have iTunes on my home Windows PC (I use it for ripping CDs) and it takes much longer to start.
- SSLy 2y ago
  > I use it for ripping CDs may I introduce you to cyanrip or EAC? https://github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip https://github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/ https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/downloa...
  - criddell 2y ago
    I own dbPoweramp which I believe uses EAC, but iTunes is just easier (I rip to ALAC) and is good enough. Apple will probably drop support soon, but until then I'll stick with it.
  - LeoPanthera 2y ago
    Thank you for introducing me to cyanrip. Rare to see a ripper that supports HDCD and doesn’t require me to decode them manually with ffmpeg.
- sureIy 2y ago
  To be fair iTunes had become such a kitchen sync software. The Windows version is universally hated I think, I remember hearing jokes about iTunes on regular TV talk shows.
anentropic 2y ago
The experience of browsing the iTunes store is laughably bad... The back button that goes back multiple steps while losing context of stuff you had clicked in between, the way the search box is in a whole other part of the UI and it has a three mode toggle. The way that clearing the search phrase does a new search for "". The other day I bought an album on Bandcamp and imported it. Music app adds a "show complete album" link when I view the album in my library. Instead of doing anything useful this link clicks through to a whole different album in the iTunes store. Or yesterday I browsed to "Joni Mitchell" and got some kind of curated homepage for the artist with background image art etc. The albums are grouped under a series of headings ("60s/70s" and "80s/90s") that don't include all her albums. There's no way to 'view all'. You literally can't reach say "Blue" without going back out and searching for it explicitly. Just idiotic and broken features left right and centre.
kergonath 2y ago
> iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software It used to be the case a long time ago. I think it was decent up to iTunes 5 or 6. They crammed into it iPod apps and stuff, which resulted in a terrible UX. Then came the UI lag.
EasyMark 2y ago
what is Music doing to you? Other than being slow to launch I really don't have any issue. I have made multiple lists and use it daily to listen to music. I don't recall it crashing in recent memory or not doing what I expect? Tbf, I currate my own music and lists and don't use the streaming a lot. Occasionally I use the station feature I guess, and it's passable. I'm certainly no power user though.
chang1 2y ago
I am not an Apple Music subscriber and don't stream much music besides SomaFM, so I may not be in the norm. I always have selected on the sidebar Library -> Songs with View -> Column Browser enabled. And I search only using the "Filter" text input on this view. It's as close to how iTunes used to be in the early days of OS X (sans brushed metal). What I see on the screen is just mostly dense text except the small thumbnail at the top for whatever is currently playing. There is no other related artwork or graphics loaded. I fear once a re-write of this app happens, this view is gone... replaced with lots of fancy graphics and loads of whitespace padding everywhere.
Marsymars 2y ago
I have a consistently reproducible, if edge-case crash in Apple Music for at least a couple years now. I host a DAAP server (using the OwnTone software) to listen to my music with using Apple Music. It doesn't happen with a freshly-opened Music instance, but if it's been open for a while, then I pause, then restart the server instance, Apple Music crashes. I've reported every crash with a copy/paste of the repro steps in the comment.
kyralis 2y ago
It basically is an Electron app; most of the UI is server-driven. It's just not HTML and js. News, Books, and TV are all similar.
- hnthrowaway0315 2y ago
  Just curious, why did they decide to use Electron instead of native? After all those are Apple MacOS software.
  - webdever 2y ago
    It's not electron, but it is a WebKit view (HTML based) So is the App store on all platforms AFAICT.
    - hnthrowaway0315 2y ago
      Thanks. MSFT at least is using C# though.
    - saagarjha 2y ago
      It's not a web view except for some of the account-related screens.
    - jeffhuys 2y ago
      Do you have a source for that? Because that's news to me...
  - kyralis 2y ago
    It's not actually Electron; it's a bit of an unholy mishmash of webkit doing layout of things that are sometimes native views with interaction handling that's also a bit of both. It just has many of the same problems that that Electron apps have, which is also why the interactions are so janky.
    - trinix912 2y ago
      So it’s like those late 90s ActiveX IE iframes in Windows programs all over again? That sucks. iTunes did seem to have some of it too in the Store section.
scarface_74 2y ago
Apple Music is basically the same as an Electron app. But it uses a native framework and technology and Apple’s markup language for the views - Apple Markup Language
WatchDog 2y ago
My last experience with iTunes was a long long time ago, in the iPod days, when you needed to use it to sync music, but it was a horrible piece of software back then.
- desertrider12 2y ago
  It’s more horrible now. Syncing now opens a Finder window with an inconsistent look and feel, and sometimes fails to copy new songs in a synced playlist. The playlist view has the album art taking up half the screen, but there’s no way to shrink that section. And there’s no visual indication for whether shuffle is on - it has no grey box around it when enabled. I kind of think they made it shitty on purpose to push everyone towards a subscription. Many of these issues apply to locally stored songs and playlists, which is how I use it.
- sureIy 2y ago
  Did you use it on Windows? I never understood the hate for iTunes. It was a dream for someone like me who'd spend hours customizing their library. A far cry from today's software from Apple. In fact, I was never able to use Apple Music because it handled bad internet atrociously. And last time I checked (2022?) it was still not fixed.
  - WatchDog 2y ago
    Yes, I used it on windows, I also spent lots of time curating my music library, but I mostly used winamp for that.
  - seec 2y ago
    It's a meme created by idiots who for some reason wanted to shit on Apple. Hilariously now the same memers will defend Apple tooth and nails even though Apple has never been so bad at software. iTunes was a great software, even people using it on Windows liked it a lot.
amluto 2y ago
> iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software Excuse me? iTunes was IMO always bad. I will grant that the Mac desktop version of Apple Music is possibly even worse than iTunes ever was, though. (This is slightly off topic, but I find it both amusing and rather infuriating that the iCloud payment system doesn’t accept Apple Pay. Oddly, it seems to accept PayPay. Really, just about everything involving the account and payment system in iCloud and Apple Music is awful.)
dimgl 2y ago
Ah, you know, now that I think of it, Apple Music has this pretty bad bug where after a couple of hours of playing music my playlist will stop playing and nothing I do will make the playlist usable again. This never happened in iTunes.
bgschulman31 2y ago
I canceled my Apple Music subscription a few years ago after leaving the app open for long times would heat up my computer and use 100% of the cpu. It no longer feels like they have the "it just works" feeling they used to in all of their software.
bobbylarrybobby 2y ago
It really is sad how Apple can't keep such a simple app, that has been working more or less flawlessly for the modern history of the company, working correctly. Bugs I've seen include: - After waking from sleep, the current song plays silent audio (skipping forward and back again kickstarts it to start playing again) - When streaming with lossless audio, somewhere in the first ten seconds of the song, it'll skip - Mouseover events don't trigger when scrolling moves an item behind the mouse — you have to get the cursor to leave and reenter the object in question - Radio stations randomly stop playing sometimes - And I haven't seen this one in a while, but for a long time, albums in my library would randomly have a song or two split out into its own separate album. So I'd have two of the same album, one with (say) track 5 and the other with tracks 1-4 and 6-10. Deleting and re-adding the albums would at least temporarily fix this.
yeison 2y ago
iTunes was such a piece of garbage. It would literally get stuck in a login loop whenever you tried to open it and it was pretty unintuitive design. Apple Music is not perfect but 100x better than iTunes. However, I never bought Macs for Music. It has always just been the most ideal development machine.
gvurrdon 2y ago
iTunes used to be extremely buggy for me, and things got a bit better with the Apple Music app. But, within the last week a bug which messes up all the album artwork on a synced iPhone struck my partner's device - I've not seen that one since iTunes.
827a 2y ago
I had to cancel Apple Music because, bewilderingly, sometimes I'd click a song to play and it just, wouldn't, play. Like, the most basic, simple thing I'd expect a music app to be able to handle. No error. Just nothing. This would happen two or three times a week. It feels utterly insane to say in 2025 that I chose my preferred music subscription service because I prefer a service where I give them money then they give me the ability to play music, but Apple physically cannot even manage that.
seec 2y ago
Yep. I have completely abandoned Apple Music (after 4 years with them and the destruction of my local library btw), it just sucks. Both on the phone and the mac. Spotify just works, it's faster, more pleasant and has the relevant features in the right place. The only thing missing is lossless audio. But I have been listening to 256kpbs AAC since basically the first iPod so I'm not going to care that much at this point...

cassianoleal 2y ago

I never liked iTunes. I always found it horrible and difficult to find my way around. Apple Music makes me miss those days.

wrs 2y ago

It really is bad. I mean, the navigation design is bad to start with (just back, no forward? Genres are under Search?), and it’s buggy. It hangs randomly and sometimes it just doesn’t make sound (you had one job!).

1980phipsi 2y ago

The podcast app is the same shoddy-ness. Re-arranging things in the queue is such a PIA.

JoshTko 2y ago
podcast app is the worst, I can never find what I'm looking for
- lostlogin 2y ago
  > I can never find what I'm looking for Overcast might be the app for you. No affiliation, I just like it.
  - frereubu 2y ago
    Another vote for Overcast.
  - zimpenfish 2y ago
    Overcast is definitely the least worst of the iOS podcast apps but it does have its own set of UI/UX annoyances.
  - draebek 2y ago
    Unfortunately, Overcast's update towards the tail of last year ruined it for me and many others. It no longer functions reliably in my experience.
  - webdever 2y ago
    I've used Downcast forever. No complaints. No idea how it compares to Overcast.
  - pasc1878 2y ago
    My main issue with podcast alternatives is that onbe feature I use is walk into a room and ask Siri to play a podcast. That works with Apple but not anything else. What is the latest podcast has to sync across devices. However any maintainance or search for podcasts is crap with Apple and better elsewhere.
- 112233 2y ago
  have you tried their "books"? you cannot search by almost anything! Extra-strangely, selecting book language is macos-only feature! Does anyone even maintain it?
DrillShopper 2y ago
Apple Music, at least when I last used it, could not handle copying podcasts to my old iPod Video - this is now handled in Finder, as best as I can tell. It will copy the tracks, but it doesn't properly flag them as podcasts so if I switch to another track and then go back to the podcast it does not remember my location. Never had that problem with iTunes.
- bombcar 2y ago
  If you set your podcasts as AudioBooks and copy them in THAT area, it remembers where you were, at least. But you have to play them through Books.
  - DrillShopper 2y ago
    I did find that workaround and then I just scrapped that Mac (because it was a Mac Mini that lost OS support) and went back to using gtkpod on Linux.

choilive 2y ago

If Spotify doesnt work they are dead in the water. If Apple Music doesnt work, thats a rounding error.

ohgr 2y ago

It's a bit hit and miss for sure. If you turn off the subscription and Apple Music portal stuff it works fine though. I use it with a cable to sync to my iPhone with offline files I ripped with XLD from CDs. It's all the network crap that breaks it.

hbn 2y ago

Apple Music on Mac definitely needs a ground-up rewrite, though I worry it'll lose uncommonly used features, like the ability to upload and stream your own music. I think a lot of Apple Music weirdness is from the fact that it's been built up over the years upon iTunes, which was essentially a completely different product that offered different thing. No one is really buying digital music any more, but they still need to handle everyone's old libraries and purchases, so there's a weird disconnect between your local music library and your cloud Apple Music library. So there are completely separate screens for viewing e.g. an album in your local library versus "in the cloud" even though they're both views for the same content. Incidentally the iOS Music app has generally been pretty good to me, but starting in the most recent iOS update has been having crashing issues. I'm not sure what exactly causes it, but it's typically when I rearranged the queue then minimize the player to get back to the home/library screen.

amluto 2y ago
The upload-and-stream-your-own-music feature, as handled by the Mac desktop Apple Music app, seems to be 90% bug and 10% working. I can’t imagine a rewrite being worse than the status quo.
- joshuaturner 2y ago
  Funnily enough that's the one feature that works pretty well for me and is keeping me on Apple Music as opposed to Spotify. Considering the state of every recently made/"remade" first party Apple app I cannot imagine how horrible the Music app would be after they got done with it.
  - janfoeh 2y ago
    That feature is the single worst thing Apple has done I have ever encountered: it stole my music library. At some point when migrating from one Mac to another, it "forgot" which songs were actually mine. It's all Apple Music now. I have songs that the application _knows_ were added to my library in 2003, but for which it steadfastly maintains they're Apple Music downloads. Worse: some songs have been replaced with other recordings. Other are "unavailable" for unexplained reasons.

soulofmischief 2y ago

I love that I had to install a shim service [0] with the same ID as Apple Music's since it can't otherwise be turned off, which was causing Apple Music to appear every time I pressed a media key but had no media playing. That's the kind of shiesty KPI-boosting tactic I'd expect from Windows, not a machine I paid almost $4000 for. Apple comes installed with a ton of irremovable bloatware and somehow gets a pass. [0] https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/

kjkjadksj 2y ago
They’ve been doing that bullshit with the media keys since it was still itunes

criddell 2y ago

I use Apple Music on my Windows work computer and it's pretty good. I still have iTunes on my home Windows PC (I use it for ripping CDs) and it takes much longer to start.

SSLy 2y ago
> I use it for ripping CDs may I introduce you to cyanrip or EAC? https://github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip https://github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/ https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/downloa...
- criddell 2y ago
  I own dbPoweramp which I believe uses EAC, but iTunes is just easier (I rip to ALAC) and is good enough. Apple will probably drop support soon, but until then I'll stick with it.
- LeoPanthera 2y ago
  Thank you for introducing me to cyanrip. Rare to see a ripper that supports HDCD and doesn’t require me to decode them manually with ffmpeg.
sureIy 2y ago
To be fair iTunes had become such a kitchen sync software. The Windows version is universally hated I think, I remember hearing jokes about iTunes on regular TV talk shows.

anentropic 2y ago

The experience of browsing the iTunes store is laughably bad... The back button that goes back multiple steps while losing context of stuff you had clicked in between, the way the search box is in a whole other part of the UI and it has a three mode toggle. The way that clearing the search phrase does a new search for "". The other day I bought an album on Bandcamp and imported it. Music app adds a "show complete album" link when I view the album in my library. Instead of doing anything useful this link clicks through to a whole different album in the iTunes store. Or yesterday I browsed to "Joni Mitchell" and got some kind of curated homepage for the artist with background image art etc. The albums are grouped under a series of headings ("60s/70s" and "80s/90s") that don't include all her albums. There's no way to 'view all'. You literally can't reach say "Blue" without going back out and searching for it explicitly. Just idiotic and broken features left right and centre.

kergonath 2y ago

> iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software It used to be the case a long time ago. I think it was decent up to iTunes 5 or 6. They crammed into it iPod apps and stuff, which resulted in a terrible UX. Then came the UI lag.

EasyMark 2y ago

what is Music doing to you? Other than being slow to launch I really don't have any issue. I have made multiple lists and use it daily to listen to music. I don't recall it crashing in recent memory or not doing what I expect? Tbf, I currate my own music and lists and don't use the streaming a lot. Occasionally I use the station feature I guess, and it's passable. I'm certainly no power user though.

chang1 2y ago

I am not an Apple Music subscriber and don't stream much music besides SomaFM, so I may not be in the norm. I always have selected on the sidebar Library -> Songs with View -> Column Browser enabled. And I search only using the "Filter" text input on this view. It's as close to how iTunes used to be in the early days of OS X (sans brushed metal). What I see on the screen is just mostly dense text except the small thumbnail at the top for whatever is currently playing. There is no other related artwork or graphics loaded. I fear once a re-write of this app happens, this view is gone... replaced with lots of fancy graphics and loads of whitespace padding everywhere.

Marsymars 2y ago

I have a consistently reproducible, if edge-case crash in Apple Music for at least a couple years now. I host a DAAP server (using the OwnTone software) to listen to my music with using Apple Music. It doesn't happen with a freshly-opened Music instance, but if it's been open for a while, then I pause, then restart the server instance, Apple Music crashes. I've reported every crash with a copy/paste of the repro steps in the comment.

kyralis 2y ago

It basically is an Electron app; most of the UI is server-driven. It's just not HTML and js. News, Books, and TV are all similar.

hnthrowaway0315 2y ago
Just curious, why did they decide to use Electron instead of native? After all those are Apple MacOS software.
- webdever 2y ago
  It's not electron, but it is a WebKit view (HTML based) So is the App store on all platforms AFAICT.
  - hnthrowaway0315 2y ago
    Thanks. MSFT at least is using C# though.
  - saagarjha 2y ago
    It's not a web view except for some of the account-related screens.
  - jeffhuys 2y ago
    Do you have a source for that? Because that's news to me...
- kyralis 2y ago
  It's not actually Electron; it's a bit of an unholy mishmash of webkit doing layout of things that are sometimes native views with interaction handling that's also a bit of both. It just has many of the same problems that that Electron apps have, which is also why the interactions are so janky.
  - trinix912 2y ago
    So it’s like those late 90s ActiveX IE iframes in Windows programs all over again? That sucks. iTunes did seem to have some of it too in the Store section.

scarface_74 2y ago

Apple Music is basically the same as an Electron app. But it uses a native framework and technology and Apple’s markup language for the views - Apple Markup Language

WatchDog 2y ago

My last experience with iTunes was a long long time ago, in the iPod days, when you needed to use it to sync music, but it was a horrible piece of software back then.

desertrider12 2y ago
It’s more horrible now. Syncing now opens a Finder window with an inconsistent look and feel, and sometimes fails to copy new songs in a synced playlist. The playlist view has the album art taking up half the screen, but there’s no way to shrink that section. And there’s no visual indication for whether shuffle is on - it has no grey box around it when enabled. I kind of think they made it shitty on purpose to push everyone towards a subscription. Many of these issues apply to locally stored songs and playlists, which is how I use it.
sureIy 2y ago
Did you use it on Windows? I never understood the hate for iTunes. It was a dream for someone like me who'd spend hours customizing their library. A far cry from today's software from Apple. In fact, I was never able to use Apple Music because it handled bad internet atrociously. And last time I checked (2022?) it was still not fixed.
- WatchDog 2y ago
  Yes, I used it on windows, I also spent lots of time curating my music library, but I mostly used winamp for that.
- seec 2y ago
  It's a meme created by idiots who for some reason wanted to shit on Apple. Hilariously now the same memers will defend Apple tooth and nails even though Apple has never been so bad at software. iTunes was a great software, even people using it on Windows liked it a lot.

amluto 2y ago

> iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software Excuse me? iTunes was IMO always bad. I will grant that the Mac desktop version of Apple Music is possibly even worse than iTunes ever was, though. (This is slightly off topic, but I find it both amusing and rather infuriating that the iCloud payment system doesn’t accept Apple Pay. Oddly, it seems to accept PayPay. Really, just about everything involving the account and payment system in iCloud and Apple Music is awful.)

dimgl 2y ago

Ah, you know, now that I think of it, Apple Music has this pretty bad bug where after a couple of hours of playing music my playlist will stop playing and nothing I do will make the playlist usable again. This never happened in iTunes.

bgschulman31 2y ago

I canceled my Apple Music subscription a few years ago after leaving the app open for long times would heat up my computer and use 100% of the cpu. It no longer feels like they have the "it just works" feeling they used to in all of their software.

bobbylarrybobby 2y ago

It really is sad how Apple can't keep such a simple app, that has been working more or less flawlessly for the modern history of the company, working correctly. Bugs I've seen include: - After waking from sleep, the current song plays silent audio (skipping forward and back again kickstarts it to start playing again) - When streaming with lossless audio, somewhere in the first ten seconds of the song, it'll skip - Mouseover events don't trigger when scrolling moves an item behind the mouse — you have to get the cursor to leave and reenter the object in question - Radio stations randomly stop playing sometimes - And I haven't seen this one in a while, but for a long time, albums in my library would randomly have a song or two split out into its own separate album. So I'd have two of the same album, one with (say) track 5 and the other with tracks 1-4 and 6-10. Deleting and re-adding the albums would at least temporarily fix this.

yeison 2y ago

iTunes was such a piece of garbage. It would literally get stuck in a login loop whenever you tried to open it and it was pretty unintuitive design. Apple Music is not perfect but 100x better than iTunes. However, I never bought Macs for Music. It has always just been the most ideal development machine.

gvurrdon 2y ago

iTunes used to be extremely buggy for me, and things got a bit better with the Apple Music app. But, within the last week a bug which messes up all the album artwork on a synced iPhone struck my partner's device - I've not seen that one since iTunes.

827a 2y ago

I had to cancel Apple Music because, bewilderingly, sometimes I'd click a song to play and it just, wouldn't, play. Like, the most basic, simple thing I'd expect a music app to be able to handle. No error. Just nothing. This would happen two or three times a week. It feels utterly insane to say in 2025 that I chose my preferred music subscription service because I prefer a service where I give them money then they give me the ability to play music, but Apple physically cannot even manage that.

seec 2y ago

Yep. I have completely abandoned Apple Music (after 4 years with them and the destruction of my local library btw), it just sucks. Both on the phone and the mac. Spotify just works, it's faster, more pleasant and has the relevant features in the right place. The only thing missing is lossless audio. But I have been listening to 256kpbs AAC since basically the first iPod so I'm not going to care that much at this point...