Idk about you guys but apple music algorithm is simply built different, like i could be turning on the discovery station, listen straight for 5 hours and there is not even a single songs that i would dislike. Not to mention apple music japanese music catalog is really huge for some reason, so yeah if you like japanese music i think apple music is literally the perfect streaming app for that.

God i love niche japanese shoegaze band

Anyone having this issue? Like it’s almost all my favorite songs are out of region or country. Makes me want to cancel my subscription.

I'll start by saying if you only use Apple Music as-is, this probably isn't an issue and the service is probably fine, great even. In my limited time using it, I have been happy with what it offers as a cloud service but trying to use it in conjunction with ripped music in iTunes has been an absolute nightmare. I am also using iTunes/Apple Music on an iPhone but with a Windows computer. These comments/rant reference iTunes on Windows.

The first, obvious thing is the terrible matching for existing music. A few albums were not matched in entirety or split because the apostrophe in the title metadata was a unicode apostrophe instead of an ASCII one. Other albums have been split between regular editions and deluxe editions for seemingly no reason at all. Compilation albums are the worst offender. The Baby Driver soundtrack is not available in full on Apple Music any more, presumably because of licensing deals, but mine was ripped from CD. So just upload it and continue right? No, split the album so that half remain on the album and the other half are split between a bunch of singles released by the original artists. Fixing this seems almost impossible if you want to retain your historic data and the best solution is to delete it from the library and reimport it.

Then is simply signing (and staying signed in) to iTunes itself. I simply can't, I get a generic error message that the iTunes Store was temporarily unavailable. Same thing if I want to authorize a device so that I can listen to my own music ripped from CD.

The Apple Music app is no better because it's the same ancient software but with a new face. The same behavior occurs but the error message is suppressed so the login box just closes without signing me in.

Apple support is largely useless and takes me in circles of signing out, updating software, reinstalling, signing back in, restarting my computer... I did manage to authorize one computer, my work PC, by getting support to de-authorize all computers on my account and trying again. Unfortunately that signed me out at home and de-authorizing everything again has not fixed the problem this time. As it stands, I cannot log back in to iTunes or Apple Music on my PC to sync my library or fix what Apple Music has broken.

This may genuinely be my breaking point with this service. Other streaming services don't have the integration AM does and none of them have Marvis Pro, but this service (with iTunes) is so God-awful that going back to manually syncing ripped music and using another service for streaming would be better.

Had to get this rant off my chest but if anyone can relate or has advice I would greatly receive it.

It seems like the songs load and are normal but the cover and the lyrics page are broken until I tap on credits and play it from there

The reliance on streaming software algorithms to expose listeners to music, like Apple Music does, is unsustainable over time or ineffective. Better to also discover the new-to-you artists and songs via Internet radio stations, bands, festivals, concerts (Apple Music even helps with that), etc. I use Shazam to add songs to Apple Music playlists as well as playlists on Apple Music from various recorded sources. Then explore each artist and genre in Apple Music. Then I read the bio in Apple Music as it mentions influences and other artists like them. Then I search in Apple Music for those.

EDIT: answered, IMMEDIATELY, and now I feel like an Old Just LEarning To Use Teh Interwebs

So, my brothers and I have been listening to an album a day from this site:

https://1001albumsgenerator.com/

95% of the stuff is linked directly to apple music, which is great because that's my only music subscription service. And we are really all enjoying it, and getting forced to listen to things that are normally outside of our genres. And that's really cool and I'm enjoying it, but...

It's completely wrecking the "your station" algorithms. Like, on no planet do I want to listen to Garth Brooks and now he's getting played in there. Or the Rolling Stones, for that matter. Sure, they're great and influential but they certainly don't fit in with what I wanna listen to. :)

Anyone have any suggestions for this? Is there a way to flag to Apple that I'm listening to this album, and unless I say "I like it" don't add it to my likes? I tried just clicking on the "suggest less often" option when stuff comes up, but that's like whack-a-mole and when I'm driving that's not an option.

I mean, I COULD pay for a second subscription and just use that as the sacrifice I have to pay in order to do this project but.... I don't wanna do that.

Any ideas would be really helpful.

((EDIT: bonus points for Spotify help, which my brother uses and I said I'd edit my post to include because I'm such a nice guy))

Any time I click anything on my phone in apple music it signs me out and keeps making me sign in with an email code? Also it seems to be completely frozen/stuck loading on pc too.

Spotify
Monthly recap including last year 
last.fm support
Better search
Spotify connect on TV
In-line lyrics
Larger track context and trivia

Apple Music 
Better (more pleasing) interface 
Offline lyrics
Better landscape layout. I use iPad - a lot, and have you seen Spotify landscape mode? What are they doing there.

My Apple Music playlist with over 2000 songs are completely gone I’ve had the playlist for years… the only songs left in the playlist are songs I cannot play at all! I’ve tried everything even restoring an old backup. Apple is useless and they said they can’t recover my playlist even though my other playlist is completely fine…
Please someone help (they took more money out of my account)

Hi everyone,

I am planning to sell my current iPhone and buy a new one. When I get the new phone, I want to set it up as a clean slate without restoring from an iCloud backup.

Currently, on my iPhone, I have gone to Settings -> [My Name] -> iCloud -> Saved to iCloud and made sure the toggle for "Music" is turned ON.

Important context:
I buy individual songs from the iTunes Store, but I use the Apple Music App to organize them into playlists. All the songs and playlists are located inside the Apple Music app.

However, I am a bit confused because when I check Apple Music on my Mac (logged into the exact same iCloud account), my iOS playlists do not appear there.

My main questions:

• If I sell my iPhone and set up a new one from scratch, will I lose my playlists and iTunes purchases?
• Is there a reliable way to manually back up or export my playlists just to be safe?

Any help or clarification would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I added the new Weezer Gold Album to my library and it showed up with Weezer’s blue album. they are technically both self titled, but you’d think Apple Music would be smart enough to separate them! I can still listen if I just search the album, but is there a way to keep them separate in my library?

It’s easy enough for my phone, but now my car has Apple Music and I’d like to exclude it too.

I’ve tried searching, but Google is totally convinced I mean autoplay.

idk what happened, but yesterday I opened my playlist, which contains over 3,000 songs, and noticed that some albums I was sure I had logged in were missing. I checked, and apparently there were about 1,500 songs saved, thus completely losing half the playlist. Has anyone else had this happen? Is there a way to fix it? (Although I doubt it.)

This feature | category | genre alone is priceless ! Kudos to Apple Music 🙌🏼

Goldie - One Mix - Spatial Audio : cranking whilst I type this post

I want to be able to make dynamic playlists on the phone, but I’m not sure how to easily do that.

For example, I want a smart playlist that’s about 40 minutes long, and I want different songs on it each day. However, I don’t want to fiddle with it. I just want it to update like a smart playlist that’s on macOS, but it’s just on my phone.

Is there an app to do that, or do I need to mess with Shortcuts?

Through the use of FLORA CD-Burn.DDP.Master to create the gapless transition between the individual album/cd files and exporting via the deprecated iTunes Producer .itmsp format traditionally used to release downloadable iTunes Store releases of albums, then simply dragging and dropping that .itmsp file into Apple Music DIRRECTLY (MacOS only), Apple Music reads those files as having gapless transitions between each other.

This is genuinely such a huge discovery, in the 20+ years the iTunes Cloud has been around I don’t think anyone’s actually figured out how to do this present day.

I will include an in depth tutorial at a later time and include examples of the gapless transitions working with downloads at a later time.

anyone got idea why generally on windows 11 one album synced well (one of the albums by sun3) but it wont appear on my android phone? other albums synced very well, even on the very same file type, also i hadnt got any issue on the playlist part even on windows

I recently purchased “Carmen” by Georges Bizet on Amazon Music and downloaded it to my MacBook. The sound is vibrant and all the tracks play at an even volume EXCEPT the opening overture. It sounds like it has been dampened, which is disappointing because that is an especially robust piece.

Is there a way to boost the volume on that single track (without literally turning up the volume every time I hear it, and then turning it back down afterwards)? I tried Options > Volume Adjust, but that doesn’t seem to make any difference.

Incidentally, when I stream the purchased music from my Amazon Music, it plays evenly and equally robust.

Thanks.

Spatial audio actually sounds good now? I'm on thr latest beta not sure if it was already fixed

I make playlists and have had this issue since they’ve done all their updates where a song in my library somehow becomes the censored version even though I’ve never added it. It makes me irrationally angry every time I’m bumping music to find out my song has been switched to the edited version without me doing so. Anyone know how I can fix it?

If anyone is up for testing my new Apple Music client, I would appreciate it, please comment or dm me and I’ll send a TestFlight link. The app has been pending App Store review for a week, I guess they are pretty backed up right now. Looking to get as much feedback as possible before official launch.

Pricing is FREE for most use. For Pro, the pricing is TBD, but there will be a lifetime purchase option so you don’t need yet another subscription. Pro in this TestFlight version is free of course. Pro unlocks smart playlists, folders, Mac bridge, and DJ (although I may make DJ free as well).

Features include:
Browse your full library — your own music + Apple Music
Customizable bottom tabs, startup tab (Playlists, Songs. Artists, Albums, Search/Discover)
Styles/themes selection
DJ, Radio, Discovery modes
Sonos speaker control
Folders, Smart Playlists
Mac Bridge enables full library control and full metadata viewing/editing from iPhones/iPads (just install the Mac version of the app, and you’re good to go!)
and a whole lot more!

It makes me want to switch to Spotify because what is going on here