Jonas WisserI truly can't express right now how mad I am about music streaming generally and the absolute decay of Apple's iTunes ecosystem in favor of Apple Music specifically.
Do yourself a favor: own a copy of your music. Don't use a streaming service.
Several times tonight I've had to torrent albums I've paid for because Music.app simply won't let me download a non-DRMed version. Instead, it repeatedly serves me the DRMed Apple Music version.
The iTunes ecosystem had literally one job. Fucking embarrassing.
It's getting harder and harder to recommend Apple anything to family or friends. But the big problem is that nothing else is getting better at the same rate Apple software and ecosystems are getting worse, so I'm increasingly tempted to tell them "Just avoid using computers”.
I am *this close* to telling everyone I know that CDs and Discmans are the future.
Nelson@jwisser Any physical media is the future, IMHO. Personally I've been buying vinyl and even cassette tapes lately, but that's in part because I'm cursed by a lack of working CD players (my Discman seems unrepairable, but my older Walkman works fine, go figure). Anyway I already have enough CDs in my collection to last a lifetime when I do get a CD player working again.
P.S. Avoid computers.