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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by floatingatoll on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:00PM (#27202385)
It seems like the author of this post isn't aware of the History feature built-in to both desktop and mobile Music.app (formerly known as iTunes). I don't imagine they care that it exists, or that it invalidates the example they used in their rant about Apple software quality, but for whatever it's worth, mine goes back for weeks or months across many device restarts.
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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by orf on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:15PM (#27203038)
I do care, thanks for bringing it up. However that feature doesn’t work if you’re airplaying to a device or if another non-iPhone is playing your music (like a HomePod).

This makes it inconsistent at best and useless at worst, and doesn’t make me feel any better about Apple software quality.

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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by floatingatoll on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:19PM (#27203066)
Oh. FYI, those circumstances aren't in the post.
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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by zenexer on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @01:05AM (#27204777)
The post doesn’t go into detail about the circumstances that trigger the bug, but that also shouldn’t really be the user’s job in this case.
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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by floatingatoll on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:21PM (#27213982)
It’s the post author’s job to describe them, or else the rant can be easily misinterpreted as PEBCAK and disregarded by others, or spawn unnecessary threads such as this one I started. It is of course their right not to do so, but I assume with screeds like this that the goal is to convince others to be outraged, and it doesn’t do a good job of that.
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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by lstamour on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:07PM (#27202977)
I couldn’t find a history feature in my app on iOS but I did find the following on Apple Support: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/ipha4521ef7d/14... (at the bottom it talks about how to view recently played songs)

I haven’t played music in awhile and I can’t seem to get that list to appear on my phone. It would be nice if Apple would document how this works or if they could integrate with Last.fm the way Spotify does.

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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by floatingatoll on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:16PM (#27203044)
When you find the Playing Next screen (the bulleted list icon next to the AirPlay icon), scroll up from the words "Playing Next".
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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by Jcowell on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:43PM (#27203241)
Tried it worked perfectly , just had to scroll up. There’s also a recently played playlist in the listen now section.
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