Apple MusicReviews of applemusic.com

Lost the music I downloaded, will never use again. App deleted.

I ditched Apple Music a few years ago. It worked fine for two years, then suddenly it stripped all the information from over 2,000 of my tracks. Nothing but "untitled", unknown album, unknown, unknown, unknown. Six hours over two days with Apple tech led to nothing. I discovered I knew more about the system than he did. So, in frustration I cancelled the subscription and then suddenly all the track information returned! Come to find out, if Apple Music doesn't recognize your tracks, it does that. I was a sound artist and I collected hundreds of public domain material and recordings from the beginning of the 20th century. Well, of course Apple Music didn't know about anything like that, and so it didn't recognize it. But rather than leave what it didn't know alone, it just made them unusable. Really? Is that what I paid Apple for? Now that all their consumer based machines are no long user upgradeable, nor upgradeable beyond purchase by Apple, I am not buying any more Apple anything. I'm no groupie, but I did make the mistake of becoming one of their apologists. But no more. Apple is just a multinational corporation and cares about what other multinational corporations do. Being the biggest, dominate, and wealthiest in their industry and others. I've been using Apple products since 1988. I loved Apple in ways I cannot express, until things started changing roughly ten or so years ago. Now, the greed is so bad, and they're pushing and forcing users into becoming walking ATMs, that I hate Apple. I shouldn't have to subscribe to this, or pay for iCloud that, just to get the systems to function properly. You can't off load your books library to an external drive since before Catalina, you have to subscribe to Apple Music for your HomePod to play your own library as it won't pull it from your desktop via Wi-Fi, and they told nobody this when they first marketed the thing until there was enough of a howl, that it now appears in small print in their ads. And Siri? Alexa blows Siri back into the previous century. I once thought Siri was all that until I experienced a friend's Alexa on just his phone. Oh, my stars! I couldn't believe the difference. Siri is as dumb as a box of rocks, that all she can do is tell me the time, the weather, and be a timer for when I am baking a cake. That's it. She can't even hold a signal to drive music from Airplay from my desktop through Wi-Fi long enough to be useful. She drops signals like rain. If you ask Siri a question that she need only read from the web, she'll tell you to log in to your phone. Really? For that, I would have done that in the first place. So, the HomePod with Siri is nothing. Just a great big nothing. All of these things are artificial limitations put into place to force us into continual revenue streams because it isn't enough that their machines cost a fortune. And who cares if they come in every color of the rainbow? Really? I want a computer, not a decorative element for my bedroom. Nor do I care that it is thin enough to blow away. Don't build it that way so you can use it as an excuse to keep its users from upgrading the RAM or SSD's down the road. If I had the choice as to what is considered more important in computing, its vast array of colors and thinnes is not one of them. The Apple we once knew and loved died with its original creator Steve Jobs. Now its a greedy, arrogant, beast that takes the attidude that if something isn't working for you than its because its your fault OR you need to go and buy a new system. And yes, when you talk with them, that is their offered solution. They will tell you with a smile as if it is a viable and authentic solution, that If something isn't working for you, then you need to purchase a newer or larger Apple computer. In simple terms...GFY Apple. No More.

Ik ben een liefhebber van klassieke muziek. In 2023 was ik nog heel tevreden met de wekelijkse updates met nieuwe klassieke albums die integraal konden worden beluisterd. Daar is in 2024 flink de klad in gekomen. Soms is maar een enkele track te beluisteren. Ordening op release-datum werkt niet goed meer. Ik heb geen behoefte aan een aparte app met klassieke muziek lijkt winst, maar is dat voor mij helemaal niet. Gedwongen worden om eerst een genre of componist te kiezen en dan pas toegang te krijgen tot enkele nieuwe releases werkt voor mij absoluut niet. De zoveelste zogenaamde “verbetering” die voor mij een verslechtering is - dat lijkt bij Apple soms een soort hobby te zijn.

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Apple ripping off customers!

Service completely stopped working on my iPhone. Nothing would load other than my library, but it would refuse to play any music when I pressed play. As well as this, I’d noticed it was deleting my music at random. Rather annoying when I’m on the train. I got in contact with Apple Support to let them know my issues, I mentioned at the end that I expected a refund of that month’s fee because I hadn’t received the service I’d paid for. The response I got was a refund was on its way & that they’d cancelled my subscription. Quite shocking to think they weren’t interested in improving their platform, or fixing the bugs, and would rather palm me off - a customer for over a year now Safe to say I won’t be using Apple Music again any time soon

I use apple home pods around the house Siri often tells me there’s a problem with Apple Music . It’s so unreliable. All my music is on Spotify but apple will only let me run Spotify from my iPhone and not locally on the HomePods, which then disconnects when you walk around the house. Not happy at all

What a con! Tying people to a monthly subscription on threat of deleting all the music downloaded. Nothing more than a protection racket. I would never spend £10.99 on new music every month, so why would I tie myself to paying Apple that much? In addition to all the Apple ‘improvements’ or bugs as I call them, Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave.