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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by amluto on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:05PM (#43248444)
The upload-and-stream-your-own-music feature, as handled by the Mac desktop Apple Music app, seems to be 90% bug and 10% working. I can’t imagine a rewrite being worse than the status quo.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by joshuaturner on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @01:27AM (#43251007)
Funnily enough that's the one feature that works pretty well for me and is keeping me on Apple Music as opposed to Spotify.

Considering the state of every recently made/"remade" first party Apple app I cannot imagine how horrible the Music app would be after they got done with it.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by janfoeh on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @06:58AM (#43253447)
That feature is the single worst thing Apple has done I have ever encountered: it stole my music library.

At some point when migrating from one Mac to another, it "forgot" which songs were actually mine. It's all Apple Music now. I have songs that the application _knows_ were added to my library in 2003, but for which it steadfastly maintains they're Apple Music downloads. Worse: some songs have been replaced with other recordings. Other are "unavailable" for unexplained reasons.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by joshuaturner on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:15AM (#43255735)
Oof, I would be livid if that happened to me, too. Maybe I just threaded the needle and got lucky or something, but I'm disappointed to hear mine isn't a universal experience.
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