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Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC by pier25 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:25AM (#39301643)
The Apple Music app on macOS is also hot garage.
Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC by piva00 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:35AM (#39301720)
It's incredible how bad it is both for macOS and even on iOS.

I know people like to criticise Spotify's UX/UI but whenever I'm using Apple Music on my partner's devices (she has AM, I'm on Spotify) it's a quite marked difference in snappiness of the UI, Apple Music for some reason has the same weird loading behaviour that the App Store suffers from (and sometimes even fucking System Settings on macOS goes through), and I can't understand how Apple can drop the ball that much in their own platforms...

Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC by aniforprez on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:41AM (#39301791)
Apple TV is also somehow hot garbage

I don't understand. These are "just" media players and all split up to do one thing each. How do they all do that one thing so miserably. TV hangs for multiple seconds every single time I download or delete episodes of TV shows and the player is so incredibly bad and doesn't save your progress properly

Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC by fshbbdssbbgdd on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:08PM (#39305360)
Huh, it never occurred to me that you could download episodes on an Apple TV. What’s the use-case? I download shows on my iPad so I can watch them when I’m traveling without internet, but my Apple TV is always plugged in. Intermittent connectivity in the home? Maybe bugs stick around because the feature is rarely used?
Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC by aniforprez on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:20PM (#39306290)
I'm not talking about the device btw. I am indeed talking about the TV app that comes preinstalled on Apple devices. I watch from my Macbook. The TV app is confusingly also Apple TV with a subscription service called Apple TV+

My use case is I've found that, for reasons unknown, the streaming quality is worse than if I download the episodes. Streaming always stays at 720p or lower whereas downloading gets me 1080p every time. And being able to watch things when I move around even with spotty internet

Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC by abhinavk on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:43PM (#39305789)
It's small enough to be carried when you are traveling. You could take it to hotels.
Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC by sillywalk on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:59PM (#39306850)
It's definitely one of the worst apps I've ever used in a long time. Finder is another POS.

Slow. The main "Listen Now Screen" is slow. It's an un-cached webview or something, that should be instantaneous.

The "Search area" is on the scrolling side bar on the left, and the toggle for searching between Apple Music and just your own library is on the right. It's not in the toolbar at the top where it should be and where it is on damn near every other macos app.

The lyrics can't expand to bigger, unless you switch to fullscreen mode, and then they're often unreadable because of the background colours.