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  1. TightLines

    Apple Music - Junk

    Does anyone have any ideas and experience with an alternative to the junk and crap app “Apple Music” that has my music library held hostage? Now that I have upgraded my hardware in computing inventory, on both moble and big boy toys It seems I am stuck with the default music player for Apple...
  2. P-Wunder

    HomePod Using HomePod with multiple Apple Music accounts

    Hey all, I hope someone can help me out. My wife and I have Apple Music through our cell phone provider, so we have separate accounts. This is fine, except with one specific HomePod mini. Our home is setup under my account, and we have multiple HomePod minis. One of these is setup with my wife...
  3. ONJ

    "Music" - Turn Off Voice Memo's automatically playing in the car

    This is a HUGE privacy concern for my friend who use's Apple Car Play. (I don't have a car and have no idea) The Music app randomly play's as an autoplay list of music combined with her very private "Voice Memo's" out through the car speaker when she invokes Siri. Is there a way to turn this...
  4. markeaston

    HomePod HomePods will not play music I have purchased on iTunes

    Over the last decade, for movies and music, I have purchased: 2000 albums 1600 movies At an average of $15 each - that is an expenditure of $54,000!! I also own 4 HomePods (two large ones and two minis), a mac mini (I have had a new one every 2 years for the last decade or so), the latest...
  5. R

    Transferred Music to iPhone via iTunes... so how do I listen?

    Hi everyone, first time poster here. My beloved iPod died (gah!) and as a replacement, I bought a refurbished iPhone 8 (iOS 15.6.1). Once I got the phone, I plugged it into my Windows laptop, fired up iTunes (ver 12.12.4.1) on the laptop, and then manually dragged-and-dropped all my music into...
  6. Bill Gatin

    I have a problem using my AirPods at work

    I think they might be automatically trying to connect to my coworker's AirPods, but I don't see how this would even be a problem because her AirPods would not be registered as being owned by me. There is bad service in the building where I work so I can understand how Spotify would be an issue...
  7. N

    Streaming Classical Music

    Has anything more been said or heard about Apple's move to offer a classical music streaming service that was talked about several months back?
  8. N

    Apple Music How to sync Apple Music playlists/library located on external hard drive between Macbook Pro and iMac

    Hello people. I hope I can find answers to my problem here. Here is my situation: My music library is located on an external HDD. I have manually created playlists in Music app on a Macbook pro and I want to have those same playlists show on my iMac when I plug in the HDD to it. Bypassing the...
  9. C

    Make playlist repeat persistent on iPhone Music app

    Hi. I have a couple of smart playlists on my iPhone 13 (iOS 15.6) and I would like them to persistently shuffle and repeat. The shuffle function is always on, but I have to activate repeat every time I return to Music and the playlist. Somehow ironic ;-) Tried activating both in the playlist...
  10. H

    Apple Music - Transferring iPhone to iPhone

    Have the backup files on a hard drive (don't use iCloud because Apple sucks at syncing) from an old iPhone that has all my music on it. Can access the files through iExplorer. Is the only way to put the music on the new iPhone so that it is in the Music app (difficult when Apple uses generic...
  11. haralds

    Apple Music Maximize Matching in Music/iTunes

    I have been using iTunes Match from the beginning and have a large number of albums. Before Dolby Atmos and lossless it did not matter that much, if a track did not match. Now it makes a difference. I just got Kraftwerk 3D The Catalogue (Live - 8 CDs) and ripped it Apple Lossless using Music...
  12. mike.moore

    Apple Music Mac Music App Won't Close / Reopens

    I have noticed that for some time (probably my whole time in Monterey) that when I regular close the Music app on my Mac, it immediately starts bouncing again and reopens. This happens over and over unless I right-click the icon and close or force quit the app. Has anyone else seen this? Any...
  13. S

    iPhone Cloud Radio - Record & Lyrics

    The only App on iOS that let you record, split & tags song from online Radio check it out : AppStore Please visit our website for more informaiton:http://msoftapps.com/
  14. M

    macOS Ventura (13.x) BETA: Pro Music App Compatibility

    Has anybody who uses their Mac for music creation installed the first Developer Beta? If so, which pro music apps/plugins are currently confirmed working? Here are some that it would be great to pool information on (given that each year it's a toss up if they stay working): Logic Pro X UAD...
  15. F

    networked drives with Music

    MP3,1 has 4 int drives running High Sierra via dosdude. 2 drives have the music on them. The MP3,1 is networked to a MM8,1 on a 5 port unmanaged TP switch. Music runs on the MM on Big Sur. Music intermittently drops or freezes the stream. I've checked the drives and no mechanical or other...
  16. purdnost

    Apple Music Possible to Search Music by Decade?

    I want to create a playlist of all the ‘90s music in my library. Is there an easy way to do this on a mobile device, or so I need to use Music on macOS?
  17. M

    ALAC tracks with multiple artists tags. 2nd artist ignored by Apple Music.

    When ripping to ALAC I have used 'artist 1 ; artist 2' to seperate multiple artists. When I load the ALAC tracks into Apple Muisc, the second artist is completely ignored. Apple Music only displays the first artist. So I am having to go back and change all of the tracks back to 'Artist 1 Feat...
  18. E

    Audio source bug present for years. Is there any way to fix the audio source changing after watching videos?

    This has been bothering me for years through various iPhones and OSs - when I get in my car and the iPhone connects over Bluetooth, the audio source will have changed from what I last listened to in the car at least 50% of the time. It just dawned on me what the source of this reproducible bug...
  19. K

    Need help finding a song

    I need help finding a song it's techno/EDM style music. I know that it had whistling in the intro and it repeated it like 3 times before actually getting into the song itself I don't remember if there was lyrics all I remember is the tune of the whistle and it's been driving me crazy.
  20. M

    Other How much music do you have in your phone?

    Hi, I have 104gb of music on my 6s+ 128g and it's time to upgrade. Problem is I can't decide whether to get the PM13 256gb or 512gb.(Can't wait to purchase the music on my Apple & Apple lists). I've purchased the 256gb in Sierra Blue and the 512gb in Graphite and I've 7 days left to decide! o_O...