Another classic @apple_enthusiast post. Seriously, you folks and your binary logic.
Apple Music is really lacking on Mac (or at least on my ancient Air that stopped getting updated a couple years ago)
But I can’t say I have any issue with it on iOS or iPadOS
I like the iOS version but on Mac it really sucks. They need to get rid of the old iTunes baggage and completely rebuild the app.
No, wtf? No need to get rid of perfectly good features that set it apart from the competition. They need to stop neglecting it and start bringing stuff like Smart Playlists or ratings to the other clients (and for those two I guess I mean the web client specifically)
If you’re not using iTunes it’s garbage. I don’t want a library that’s separate from Apple Music. Every time I want to get to an artist from an album that I added to my library (so I can access it quicker). If I click the artist there I only see a list of tracks from that artist I have saved. I have to click on a tiny button “show album in Apple Music” and there I can click on the artist to see everything that’s available. Somehow it’s not that complicated on iOS. On Mac it still feels like two apps stuck together with ductape.
Oh, that’s what you mean, yeah I agree that’s kinda annoying. I’m sure it can be improved without having to completely rewrite the app though. It just seems like they’re barely maintaining it so nobody is doing that.
Like so many things in their portfolio… It seems like only a handful of people work there.
@bici @apple_enthusiast Many of apples first party apps are simply bad.
iTunes didn’t start life as a first party app though. They bought a third party app (SoundJam MP) and hired the entire development team. That team shipped iTunes shortly after and at least one of them still works for Apple today.
While iTunes 1.0 was quite different from SoundJam, it’s likely they were working on a major redesign when Apple bought them and they simply finished it off - I’d guess Apple’s only real contribution was the “glass” user interface elements which eventually became systemwide.
iTunes got progressively less logical/intuitive with every release after the initial purchase.
Here’s SoundJam MP, iTunes 1.0, and iTunes 10.0 which was either the best or worst version (best, because it had the most features, worst, because do you really want a social network and movies/tv shows in your music player?) — from iTunes 11 onwards they finally cut features, but threw out the baby with the bathwater.
That last screenshot was a good build with an intuitive UI.
The UI is still in there - you just need to turn parts of the View on.
@bici @apple_enthusiast not to mention Apple Classical. Reinforcing all prejudices Europeans might have against American companies and classical music. I know these are prejudices but Apple really didn’t get, and doesn’t get classical music categorisation. This issue is dragging on for 20 years now.
