Steve Troughton-SmithJul 18, 2024

This is like a bully sitting on your chest controlling your arms going ‘don't punch your face!’. You preinstall Apple Music on a billion+ devices, undercut your competitors on a subsidized price they can never match, boost yourself with illegal anticompetitive features and entitlements and systemwide ad spots, regularly stall them from submitting updates, and then complain they don't innovate enough??

I'm seriously about ready for this company to burn to the ground
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Show threadSteve Troughton-Smith

Apple Music is so 'innovative' that I had to nuke my 20 year old hand-curated library of a hundred+ thousand songs because of the catastrophic, unfixable mess the software made of it. I'm now living off a single tiny playlist

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Show threadJeffJul 18, 2024
@stroughtonsmith A few years ago I had to reimport my (at the time) 70,000+ song library back into the Music App because it had corrupted my Library. It wasn’t until I had everything back that I remembered I had iTunes Match still setup, and then all of the music was gone on all of my devices and then the slow “churn” of indexing and uploading took roughly a week! Ugh!
Show threadCTDJul 18, 2024
@stroughtonsmith perilously close to exercising this option here as well. It has been so thoroughly messed up.
Show threadErik ChildsJul 18, 2024

@stroughtonsmith I highly recommend Tidal.

I keep trying to give Apple Music a chance, since it’s integrated in my HomePods, it’s bundled in Apple One, etc. but Tidal is just better.

Show threadErik ChildsJul 18, 2024
@stroughtonsmith or if you want to use your own music.. Plex with Plexamp. I use this for my legacy library and Tidal for music discovery. Plex also integrates with Tidal so you can get the best of both worlds.
Show threadjoshhuntJul 18, 2024
@stroughtonsmith Apple Music is so innovative that *they* nuked my entire music library, lost forever, when I wanted to change my credit card after living in a new country for 3 years.
Show threadJonathan Poh 📷 🏳️‍🌈Jul 18, 2024
@joshhunt @stroughtonsmith It's unbelievable that iCloud and iTunes accounts are still region locked, and you can’t just change your address and keep all your purchased content. I've moved countries 3 times now, and I've had to create a new account every time, so that I can keep my previous purchases, in order to use a new credit card and billing address.
Show threadNorman FrankeJul 18, 2024
@stroughtonsmith It's so bad and it never seems to get better. Even playing songs from Apple Music is slow and unreliable. I've been seriously considering trying Spotify.
Show threadMartinJul 19, 2024
@stroughtonsmith I've migrated to Doppler by @edwellbrook last year and I'm super happy ever since. Apple has ruined Music. Songs were unavailable on my phone, artwork removed, albums split for unknown reasons. And I was using solely iTunes Match.
Show threadJohnnie WalkerJul 19, 2024
@stroughtonsmith same