Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

The one thing that sours the entire experience for me is that songs take like 5-15s to start playing when selecting one that isn&#x27;t super popular.<p>This happens on my ipad, mac, android phone.<p>It feels like some server is spinning up a hard drive to stream it.<p>Apart from that, why the hell is the title and artist only shown in one line that starts scolling instead of showing multiple lines if it doesn&#x27;t fit, at least in the album view and the player. It&#x27;s <i>such</i> a pain listening to classical music when the composer and the performer and section are not visible without playing it and waiting for the line to scroll, like wtf.

I&#x27;ve never seen a search box that couldn&#x27;t actually handle input before, but Apple Music made it.<p>If I click in the search box and start typing, the box will lose focus at some random time and all my next keystrokes will count as play commands, usually pausing the music. If I come back to the search box, it happens again.<p>I know &quot;text boxes&quot; are cutting-edge technology that&#x27;s barely 3 seconds old and developers are still learning to program them safely. Still, I expected more from a trillion-dollar company.

I like Apple Music because it integrates well with the Apple line.<p>More importantly though it is one of the highest paying per stream to artists [1]. Streaming needs to be much more lucrative for artists and consumer choice helps that.<p>It is nice to be able to buy the music as well if you want to support. Being part of Apple One is huge as well.<p>The latest music streaming royalty rates are as follows.<p><pre><code> PLATFORM ROYALTY (PER STREAM) STREAMS TO MAKE $1 Tidal Music $0.01284 78 Apple Music $0.008 125 Amazon Music $0.00402 249 Spotify $0.00318 314 YouTube Music $0.002 500 Pandora $0.00133 752 Deezer $0.0011 909 </code></pre> I have lots of mp3&#x2F;stored music as well and Spotify client started taking like 20-30 minutes to start up. Wasn&#x27;t sure what it was doing...<p>Some of their patents for tracking are a bit dystopian as well.<p><i>New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music</i><p>&gt; The streaming platform is interested in extracting data points like emotional state, gender, age, and accent to hone its recommendations [2].<p>Nah. Apple already has my info and reasonably treats it well eventhough it is too much, I don&#x27;t need another service to invade privacy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;producerhive.com&#x2F;music-marketing-tips&#x2F;streaming-royalties-breakdown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;producerhive.com&#x2F;music-marketing-tips&#x2F;streaming-roya...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pitchfork.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;new-spotify-patent-involves-monitoring-users-speech-to-recommend-music&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pitchfork.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;new-spotify-patent-involves-monit...</a>

How are first party Apple apps so horrible on first party hardware? I don&#x27;t use Music but I decided to check out Severance (great show) and the TV app was absolutely horrible to use in every way. The player would only stream some really low resolution on my monitor so I tried downloading the episodes and the whole app lagged so badly every time I would queue something up or delete it. It even completely stopped streaming on my monitor because for some reason it thought my HDMI cable didn&#x27;t support the HDCPI thing and after I put the laptop to sleep and woke it up, it magically started working again. So many other UX problems that I just couldn&#x27;t put up with and cancelled my subscription after watching the show<p>Like Xcode, so many of their first party apps on Mac are just badly made and awful to use

I am fully bought in to the Apple ecosystem, but Apple Music is the poison pill that has me questioning this new prison I have chosen.<p>The iOS app wastes three out of five buttons at the bottom that I can&#x27;t change to something useful: &quot;Listen Now&quot; &quot;Browse&quot; &quot;Radio&quot; are all weak &quot;discovery&quot; tools that are probably more about label kickbacks than actually helping me find new music that I like.<p>And really, I don&#x27;t need your discovery Apple - what I need is better library discovery&#x2F;organization tools because I have a massive library which is unwieldy in your crap apps.<p>The album-centric focus is a huge PitA due to singles. Give me an Artist playlist that doesn&#x27;t take up a precious playlist slot.<p>Maybe this isn&#x27;t entirely Apple&#x27;s fault, but when I see greyed out songs or albums that were once there that aren&#x27;t anymore, I feel pushed to stop giving these scumbag labels my cash through your service.<p>I left out the bugs, but I feel that the quality of their flagship services product makes them look like a dying company, not a premium brand worth 2.5t$

&gt; If I choose to &quot;like&quot; a song, why is it not automatically saved to the so-called &quot;library&quot;.<p>I like that likes and add to library are distinct as they serve two very different purposes for me, but I would really like to have a &quot;liked&quot; playlist.<p>Other annoyances (on macOS): search in apple music vs library, the search box is on one end, the scope selector is on the other. Toggling it requires re-searching. It also gets covered by the right pane. &quot;hey I&#x27;m actually searching&quot; feedback is terrible, many parts are ungodly slow for no reason.<p>Oh and that search box has awful behaviour regarding focus, click, start typing, and somehow it gets focused only a second later, missing input and&#x2F;or not clearing what&#x27;s in there, or restoring the previous content. It seems to have about a thousand subtle failure modes that keep getting in the way extremely annoyingly.<p>Sadly (personal pov&#x2F;use case) Apple Music is the &quot;best&quot; (== less worst) app&#x2F;service out there, from the mobile UI to library management, tag editor, and BYOM+streaming.<p>Tangent: after some time peaking and being actually good, all these music apps&#x2F;streaming services have become so annoying that I&#x27;m progressively rebuilding my library (including all the non-owned discoveries I made) as flat files served by Jellyfin, which will probably take me years but ultimately I&#x27;ll be able to drop the increasingly crappy app+service verticals in favour of owned music + radio for discovery (there are a couple of great curated radios around here, and a few zines made out of thin slices of dead trees)

The app performance of Apple Music on MacOS and iOS is an abomination. It&#x27;s consistently twice as slow as Spotify, from loading playlists to loading search results and playing a song. I would be ashamed if I worked on the Apple Music team. How can a person with any self respect go to work every day and be okay with Apple Music in it&#x27;s current state?

Yeah iTunes used to be a real shitshow, having accumulated anything related to iPhone sync mgmt, media player, and a browser ofc. Then the Apple Music player came as an improvement, but still wtf: the workflow to play a title is like, search it, then wade through the results to get at your local copy (as opposed to titles on the store), then click it to arrive at the album where Apple Music doesn&#x27;t select the damn title but the first of the album&#x2F;collection, then browse through the possibly large list (have to select list view first) to locate it, then finally play it, if I recall correctly. If your music collection is large and&#x2F;or on multiple volumes and&#x2F;or copied from older or others systems, there are additional fuckups.<p>We&#x27;re always making fun of that at a die-hard Apple fanboy friend of mine. To add insult to injury, Apple Music is gender-mainstreamed in German (should be a config option IMO).<p>But give it time; Apple is certainly able to get it right eventually. Other players have degraded as well IMHO.

If you&#x27;re an Alfred user (and I think you &quot;should&quot; be), try creating a web search keyword for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;music.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;search?term={query}" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;music.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;search?term={query}</a> . When it&#x27;s triggered it will open up search in the app rather than your browser. I find this much more usable than directly opening and using the app.

For folks on Windows&#x2F;Linux that want to use Apple Music but not the web player, try Cider (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ciderapp&#x2F;Cider" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ciderapp&#x2F;Cider</a>).<p>Yes, it is Electron but Apple did use webviews in their macOS AM app as well before they switched back to native earlier this year; which still isn&#x27;t that great.<p>Ironically, Cider works better than the Apple&#x27;s web app as well; it doesn&#x27;t skip or get stuck once in a while. It just works for what I need.<p>(In case other asks, Windows&#x2F;Linux is more of a work&#x2F;secondary platform, and iPhone is the main device most of the time. That&#x27;s why I&#x27;d use Apple Music despite having the other platforms).

This is one of my huge irritations with the “advancements” in tech. Is it too much to ask for my $1000+ 256GB device to have an mp3 experience at least as good as the one I could buy 20 years ago?! Apple Music is has slowly devolved into a worse and worse mp3 player. It’s much worse than the old ios itunes used to be, and it’s a deliberate choice they’re making.

I switched from Spotify to AM and I still wouldn’t switch back.<p>There’s some weird bugs for sure and the lack of switching between devices is annoying. Sometimes I’ll accidentally leave it running in my laptop and then when I’m on my phone it keeps interrupting for some reason.<p>Their shuffle actually shuffles, it’s not just the same 20 songs.<p>Artist matching is weird though. Frequently I’ll have an artist that songs attributed to them that are from a different artist with the same name. You could now check the electronic artist Danger (songs like 11:02) and see some weird new Russian rap song attributed to him as a “Single”. It’s not his song but it ends up in my NEW MUSIC MIX. I had it with artists like SIERRA and ALEX too. Incredibly annoying.

Let me add:<p>1. The playing song&#x27;s time elapsed and time remaining are only displayed when you hover over the toolbar and disappear otherwise. WTF?!?<p>2. Sometimes when I press play, the app goes into an endless shuffle where it keeps selecting new random songs and doesn&#x27;t play anything. I have to quit the app and start over.<p>3. The delete key stopped working in a selected song in a playlist on Monterey.<p>4. The Filter field doesn&#x27;t appear in the window unless I press option-command-f first. Sigh.

Back when Apple Music was just introduced, I enabled the free trial on my MacBook where I already had a curated iTunes library over the years. Apple Music was so destructive that it went and started irreversibly not only reorganising my local library but also deleting my local songs because it had the same song in the cloud… No thank you.<p>It was so destructive that my only option was to disable Apple Music, completely remove my whole iTunes music&#x2F;data folder and restore everything from backup.<p>—-<p>I also recently realised that the Mac OS upgrade broke my iTunes playlists again, I’m not sure if it was during move to Bug Sur or earlier. I have a whole folder of music and an iTunes db file, anyone how Im supposed to import that into Music considering that iTunes is dead?

I tried switching to Apple Music from Spotify. One of my favorite features were the radio stations&#x2F;shows. Elton John has one called Rocket Hour. The craziest thing to me - there was no way to favorite or bookmark those shows or track which episode you’re on. You need to navigate the labyrinth UI, drilling down to the show, or search for the show every time. Folks on the Apple Music subreddit suggested copying the “share” URL for the show, and keep that in a Notes doc.<p>I’m back on Spotify.

I love Apple Music for its live radio and curator roster, but the app is shockingly poor. On an iPhone 12 Pro, every single screen shows me multiple spinners for up to a second, like every UI component is a separate webview. On MacOS, the spinners regularly persist for over a second. It&#x27;s unbelievable to me that Apple execs are okay with this.

I‘ll add a comment to reflect my own experience: I’m quite happy with Apple Music, both on iOS and macOS. Sometimes I get „not authorised“ errors when playing something new and that is annoying, but other than that it just works for me as a casual user.<p>In comparison, Spotify has grown overly complex and feels weird in terms of UI responsiveness to me.

I find the web interface completely unusable. It&#x27;s hard to pinpoint why it&#x27;s terrible. It&#x27;s just bad at every step of normal use, and sluggish as something slow.<p>I only have two problems with the ios app, but they&#x27;re annoying enough. One is making you find a button to transition to a second screen to get to basic play controls, then find another button-like thing (even now I can&#x27;t tell you off the top of my head where it is) to get back. I do not understand why the &quot;play a song&quot; interface needs multiple pages.<p>The other thing is that once every few hours I get the popup: &quot;song isn&#x27;t authorized&quot; and I have to click around on shit until the app remembers that yes it actually is authorized because I pay $10 a month for it to be. I&#x27;d like to hear the UX rationale for showing a message which to 99.9% of their users just means &quot;We&#x27;re not going to play your song right now, for no particular reason except that computers don&#x27;t work in general&quot; and to the rest means &quot;We&#x27;re not going to play this song right now, even though we probably could if we were less paranoid, or better software engineers, which is an us problem but we&#x27;d rather make it a you problem&quot;

I thought Spotify was much worse. The silent playlist song cap alone was infuriating. I constantly had issues syncing between devices. UI feedback was miserable making it so you didn’t understand whether a button was pushed due to the callbacks over cellular, not that Apple Music is much better here. The worst part of Apple Music is the distinction between Apple Music and your library. You can rate things in your library but not Apple Music - which I’m guessing is an artifact of iTunes days when you had MP3s locally. The like feature in Apple Music is also terrible compared to Spotify

Using a RPi with a 1Tb SSD connected to it. MPD + various clients on all my devices, including the wonderful <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jcorporation&#x2F;myMPD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jcorporation&#x2F;myMPD</a><p>Lightweight, all free-software, can handle a massive audio-database, all synchronized. What else do we need ?

Maybe it’s just because I enjoy obscure music, but I find a fair number of older tracks are seemingly corrupted on Apples servers. I run into music pretty regularly that’ll get part way into a song and just fail. Sometimes it will skip to the next song, sometimes it will get stuck and I have to manually advance it. Sometimes I get the treat of horrible static&#x2F;screeching.<p>I have this problem across Mac laptop and android phone.

I’ve had Apple Music convert saved songs from explicit to censored in the past. The software must be written so poorly.<p>Another good one:<p>If you start a station on macOS. You can’t hit previous song to go back.<p>If you’re on iOS you can…<p>Apple Music is pretty terrible. So many times there’s no UI feedback when pressing things and they just glitch into some new state seconds after pressing things

I’m not saying it’s the best app I use, but I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading this thread. I’ve used Apple Music since it launched and I haven’t had an issue since the first few releases.

For me th worst aspect of Apple Music is that I cannot form a mental model of how it is supposed to work. I just have no clue.

If you sync your library, it will wipe all your custom likes&#x2F;dislikes for songs you sync manually via iTunes as well as wipe your smart playlists (blank them - until you sync your device to your computer again)<p>Therefore Apple Music is literally unusable if you have a large library of songs not on iTunes (like indie electronic stuff) and don’t want iTunes to identify them and switch them to Apple Music songs.

The desktop app is abysmal and slow, I like how they pay artists a little more and it’s a little cheaper bundled with other services, and that’s the only reason I use it.<p>The usability sucks too. How in god’s name do you make an app in 2022 that has unclickable artist and album names sprinkled throughout? It’s incredible how terrible iTunes was and how long Apple is allowing it to drag everything down.

I still appreciate having a &#x27;library&#x27; unlike the author, but I remain absolutely gobsmacked at how Apple buries the switch that toggles between searching Apple Music and my library. On mobile, the toggle is always right next to the search box. It gets buried in a previous page of what seems like a web view on the desktop. Some of the worst UX I have ever seen!

I just don&#x27;t understand why Apple Music search is so bad. Sometimes only exact match returns albums. It&#x27;s so bad that appending &quot;Apple Music&quot; in google works better.

I tried out Apple Music for the first time because I got a trial for it. I was shocked with how slow and unresponsive the interface is. Not only that songs had a noticeable delay between when they were clicked and when they actually started playing

&gt; Adding a currently playing song to a playlist will stop the music and clear the play queue.<p>This bugs me to no end. I&#x27;m always asking myself if a song is worth the listening interruption that will happen when I add it to a playlist.<p>Such a stupid low hanging bug.

I changed countries on the apple store and in transition I lost my entire apple music library which I curated for over 6 years (thousands of songs). All vanished. It was so painful.<p>I have moved to spotify but I am still overcoming the grief :(

Be careful if you ever get a suspicious billing email.<p>Apple decided my credit card expired (it didn’t).<p>Unlike other services, if you stop paying, it deletes your entire library (including playlists) from all your devices. So if you want to switch to another music service, you’re hosed.<p>I’ve been fighting for a week or so now to get my playlist data via the privacy tools. Just yesterday they decided to give me a list of all my app downloads, instead of what I asked for.<p>Apple wants me to pay to get back access, but I’m not willing to give their services division another $0.01 until they stop treating customers like shit.

I&#x27;ve had apple music full-on kernel panic &amp; restart my m1 macbook air, I&#x27;ve had it crash finder &amp; do all sorts of crazy render ghosting stuff on screen like duplicating app icons, I&#x27;ve had it make the OS forget my login keychain key so every app&#x2F;agent&#x2F;process pops up a dialog asking for it until I reboot, not to mention the airplay bugs. I&#x27;ve used iTunes since I first got a mac about 15 years ago so I&#x27;m not keen to change but Music on MacOS is an absolute carcrash

I cancelled my subscription after the player regularly stopped emitting sound - the player would show it&#x27;s playing a song and increment the progress bar but no sound was coming out. I have never had the same problem with any other player. Oh and sometimes any song would just keep buffering until I restarted the app.<p>As far as the slowness goes, I attribute that to the fact that the app is not native, it&#x27;s just some sort of Electron-like mess. Then again so is Spotify (I think?) and it feels much snappier.

Another one: when I add a song to my library, <i>sometimes</i> the music stops playing. If it happens, it keeps happening for the entirety of that session.

Apple Music software on Mac is truly horrible, and I remember how bad iTunes used to be. It&#x27;s the slowest UI I use (besides some Windows things), and it routinely goes catatonic if you toggle a vpn or switch networks, etc. adding some things:<p>* the bar for scrubbing is what, 2 pixels wide?<p>* airplay is broken. it does. not. work. It takes about 5 iterations of pausing, restarting things, and prayer to get it to play through its speakers and a homepod. And god forbid you then pause it for a couple minutes or want to hear something from the browser for a second.<p>* If you want to mirror to an appletv and hear sound... good luck, be sure to designate a beneficiary before embarking because you&#x27;ll probably want to kill yourself.<p>These aren&#x27;t complicated things to identify or describe. They aren&#x27;t edge cases. It&#x27;s the basic functionality and it is absolute shit. How can anything get this bad? Do apple employees not listen to music? Is each feature made by a different siloed team? It doesn&#x27;t take a silicon valley visionary to fix these things, but they are clearly missing something in their org

I suspect one reason the browsing and search experience is so slow and horrible on these services is that they don&#x27;t want to present straightforward lists that would allow people to scrape their catalogs and put them head to head. Mainstream tech reviewers seem to have extremely mainstream tastes and insist that you won&#x27;t notice the difference between the catalogs of YouTube Music (the smallest major service with about 60 million songs) and Apple Music (the largest with about 90 million). Even I noticed YouTube was missing a bunch of my favorite albums and I don&#x27;t think any of my favorites could be called &quot;obscure&quot; unless you have a really liberal definition of that word. It would be interesting to see a list of the most popular artists missing from each service, or a venn diagram of record labels and rights groups, but I haven&#x27;t found anything more detailed than isolated anecdotes and media coverage of individual artists trying to push Tidal and&#x2F;or getting mad at Spotify.

The weirdest Apple Music bug I had was:<p>Watching Netflix with Safari, and then going to the Apple Music local library (&quot;Recently Added&quot;, then click on an album) literally broke Music. It looked like this[0], all the Music toolbar buttons were gone, and keyboard shortcuts (spacebar to play) no longer worked. Pausing the movie and switching Safari tab to non-Netflix was the only solution. This was still the case on a completely clean install with only Music and Safari launched. I guess it had to do with the DRM Safari uses to play Netflix content messing with the Music app.<p>But did Apple really never test watching a movie and listening to music at the same time, with the built-in apps? That bug survived from early Big Sur to at least the Monterey release candidate, again on a completely clean install (I didn&#x27;t test it again afterwards). Huh? How?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;252162447" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussions.apple.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;252162447</a>

The best thing you can say about apple music is that it&#x27;s not Spotify

Item 1 from the App Store guidelines:<p>&gt; Before You Submit<p>&gt; ...<p>&gt; Make sure you:<p>&gt; - Test your app for crashes and bugs<p>Every time I used this app all I could think is &quot;who is Apple to judge my app?!&quot;

On point 2:<p>&gt; Hitting play will start the music at some sound level, after about a second or two the sound level is suddenly reduced (and stays at that level until hitting pause and play again).<p>This is likely due to &quot;Sound Check&quot; being enabled (I think it&#x27;s on by default), which you can un-check in the &quot;Playback&quot; section of the Music app&#x27;s preferences.

Loosely related, App Store is by far the worst of the top-1000 online stores.<p>It almost sounds like proper competition would do some good here.

I had a bunch of random stability issues with Music, they mostly went away when I deleted and reinstalled the App. Still not what I would expect out of Apple for one of their main apps.<p>About half the time when I use it on the desktop I have to force quit Music. I have no idea how a non-technical person would use something so buggy.

Regarding the second point: I believe this is &quot;sound check&quot; a setting that normalizes audio volume between different songs. I think it takes a second to kick in (maybe it has to fill up some audio buffer to work?) and yes it&#x27;s incredibly annoying. Afaik only solution is to disable sound check

I&#x27;ve always been an AM user but I can&#x27;t stand the poor performance and issues anymore. I switched to Spotify again 3 months ago and amazingly they still have my 7-8 year old collaboration playlist with my wife. But Apple Music on the other end just removed my playlists that are barely a year old.

What makes this frustrating for me is that the underlying Apple Music API is actually quite robust, such that it really is quite straightforward to create an Apple Music client that is extremely performant. I just can&#x27;t wrap my head around why Apple can&#x27;t do it themselves.

I have 2014 year MacBook Pro and app is barely usable on it. Sometimes I just switch to browser version

I really wish Spotify had native HomePod integration...<p>[1] &quot;<i>Spotify Users Growing Impatient and Canceling Subscriptions Over Lack of Native HomePod Support</i>&quot; : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;22&#x2F;spotify-users-impatient-lack-homepod-support&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;22&#x2F;spotify-users-impatient...</a><p>[2] &quot;<i>[iOS] Implement Native HomePod Support</i>&quot; : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.spotify.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;Live-Ideas&#x2F;iOS-Implement-Native-HomePod-Support&#x2F;idi-p&#x2F;4985214&#x2F;highlight&#x2F;true#comments=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.spotify.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;Live-Ideas&#x2F;iOS-Implement-Na...</a>

The UX I enjoy most is buying a vinyl record, listening to it start to finish while reading the full liner notes, knowing that the artist got the maximum amount of money, and there being no way for any tech company to track how many times I listened. Highly recommended!

Spotify is the worst and buggiest software I use, both the app and the web app. How bad could it be? It resets to the beginning of a multi hour podcast randomly with no way to get back to where I was. It does many other unbelievable things. God damn the Spotify player.

I wanted to switch from Spotify to Apple Music, for reasons why see [1]. While I enjoyed that most of the music I am listening to is available on Apple Music as well, I just could not make the switch because of the bad UX in some places and their recommendation system, which is barely existing and one of the features I enjoy most with cloud streaming services.<p>With Apple TV I had similar experiences - compared to Netflix, the UX was just horrible. In a way it made me feel good - if a company with so much money as Apple can fail so miserably, it is fine if I as a developer make mistakes too sometimes :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ra.co&#x2F;news&#x2F;76439" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ra.co&#x2F;news&#x2F;76439</a>

i have used Apple Music for a short time on my mac<p>the amount of usability issues the app has are phenomenal<p>i was actually more surprised when it worked rather when it didn’t<p>not worth my $9.99

Can confirm. Sometimes there are full DAYS where there is some error and it will not play music at all… I’m paying for it and it won’t play anything. I’ve submitted big reports multiple times. It’s not good enough.

The desktop client is really buggy and reflects poorly on Apple. Some say, an all-you-can-eat buffet of a big chunk of all published music is just too good to be true and can&#x27;t last. But, then wasn&#x27;t that the promise? Too cheap to meter? To have at your fingertips the accumulated product of hundreds of years of culture, millions of hours of practice...<p>Currently streaming: JS Bach, Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, Sergei Istomin and Viviana Sofronitsky which I had to type &#x27;cause you can&#x27;t even cut-n-paste out that piece of junk.

I hate that in order to add a song to a playlist I have to add it to my library so that it is mixed in and listed alongside the full albums I’ve purchased. I guess I prefer using Spotify so that my library of purchased music and playlists for streaming are altogether separate.<p>Also on the desktop app the way to find new jazz releases is to first put the curser in the search input which opens a secret menu. Is there a way for me to “favorite” new jazz releases so that I can check it each week without so much scrolling and clicking?

What amazes me about Apple is that they have hardware and operating system that are really great. Every other software I have used that is made by them is buggy beyond belief. Have you tried Apple TV. I stopped using it not because of lack of content but was so unreliable to the extent that you feel like it says “fuck you”. You have one packet loss, your download is doomed. Starting is takes multiple seconds. Try to search something, the UI will freeze. I love Apple products and I hope they fix their services.

Really Apple, please fix these issues. 10 euro a month is so much, and I really want to like this app.<p>I will happily yell at Apple employees while wearing a turtleneck if that&#x27;s what it&#x27;s gonna take.

It also has a horrible UI. Honestly iTunes had its issues but Music is a step backwards compared to iTunes!!<p>It&#x27;s UI is clearly designed by someone who 1) only listens to recent popular music, 2) isn&#x27;t particularly passionate about any music they listen to, and 3) don&#x27;t bother to look for new music that isn&#x27;t in the top-10. Basically the last kind of person who should ever do UI design - no passion or knowledge about the application or the market!

Agree. I never managed to sync playlists between my iPhone and iPad. The only way to make it work turned out to be:<p>1. Delete all playlists 2. Buy a MacBook 3. In the music.app, re-create the playlists. 4. Then, sync your iPhone’s music library including the just created playlists with the MacBook.<p>Took me a while to figure this out<p>I even started using Spotify just because at least syncing playlists would just work in that app.

I have to agree it’s buggy but awesome too. Very good value for my family plan, excellent sound quality. Every artist obviously. Makes me wish I had never spent so much time pirating in my youth. The Siri integration is quite bad. Sometimes songs only half play. Needs a restart about every day. Yep it’s buggy, but I’m a Apple music subscriber for life. They nailed it.

Thank you for this critique. So true. But don&#x27;t even let me get started on the disaster that it is for Classical Music lovers.

We just cancelled it yesterday for many of the same reasons. Apple needs to get a small team to rip through the design work and build something incredible.<p>Listening to music has become less fun and the experience objectively worse, even as the catalog of available titles has grown to include everything. It’s not as delightful an experience as it once was.

I won&#x27;t touch Apple* anything with a stick, but that had me laughing:<p><pre><code> Here are some suggestions for Apple to improve Apple Music on macOS: Fix the bugs, and make navigation fast! </code></pre> Like programmers weave a magic wand around and bugs magically fix themselves. Why can&#x27;t you make navigation <i>fast</i>?

Don’t suggest to delete iTunes because it is the only place to purchase music. Unless that ability is migrated to Music.

The worst thing about Apple Music on macOS are the &quot;smart&quot; playlists. They can&#x27;t be disabled, they keep coming back no matter how many times I delete them, and they&#x27;re always at the top, so they push my playlists out of sight. Just absolutely terrible UX.

I only use the offline version of Apple Music to manage my local music library, it does the job, but there was a major quality downgrade when Big Sur came out (there was a re-write that replaced the software with a much inferior version for no reason).

You should try Microsoft Teams on a Mac sometime...or any Microsoft product on a Mac, really.

Looking at the comments, I must be the only person who likes this app.<p>- Consistently recommends music I like - Spotify went down a rabbit hole with a certain genre and got weirder every week<p>- Opens instantly<p>- Integrates perfectly with Siri<p>- Doesn’t have the weird colour scheme of Spotify

I used to use Apple Music and liked it, but the bitrate (music quality) of the music was too low so after a few years I cancelled it. For me it&#x27;s really audible the difference between 320kbps music.

&gt; primarily: ditch the iTunes Store<p>Please, no! I often purchase a song I streamed because I liked it and want to have it even if the streaming service goes away or loses its license to stream that song or album!

Why can&#x27;t I remove a song from a playlist in the web ui without it removing that same song from all playlists in my entire library?!

100%.<p>I have filed so many radars against Music.app and they’ve never been fixed over the years. IMO, It’s gotten significantly worse since iTunes got broken apart in Catalina.

I just want to sync my music library on my hard drive to my iphone. All I want is a UI on iOS that doesn’t force my classical music into an album view.

If instead of ranting people would just cancel their subscriptions to bad services - we would live in a much better world.

Moved to Doppler a couple of weeks ago and never looked back. I put up for way too long with Apple Music and streaming.

Apple Music on Android is a pleasure to use for me, especially dark mode and being able to cast right from the app.

Most Apple software is buggy and annoying.

&gt; The worst of the Apple Music clients is that on macOS<p>I didn’t even know there were alternatives. Are there any decent ones?

Apple Music definitely sounds better when paired with Airpods to my ears compared to Spotify. Am I imagining?

Amazing. His list is totally different from my list of bugs!

I wish I could bookmark Record Labels and Curators.

I see you&#x27;re not a paying Windows user. :_(

Try using the Podcast app it’s even worst.

apple music is the best advert for spotify

I think it&#x27;s less buggy than Spotify.

Well that just means you certainly haven’t used many other Apple softwares. Because they compete quite healthily at being among the worst.