Apple Music Apple Music is Disappointing - Artist Following?

[groove-agent]

Apple sets its own bar for high expectations but there are a few areas that Apple seems to fall short: Apple maps, Siri, and Apple Music. I love in Spotify you can simply follow an artist and you will inherit all their albums, plus get notifications when there are new albums or even if that artist is touring in your location. I don't understand why Apple doesn't have something like that. In many cases my favourite artists will release a new album and I'll have no idea that it has happened. The other issues I have with Apple Music:

• the UI is rather chaotic
• development on non-Apple hardware is poor (I have a gaming PC and "iTunes" is awful and looks like it hasn't been updated in over 5 years)
• Siri integration is questionable - if I tell Siri to "play songs by Jessie Frye", 9/10 times it give me "Jessie Ware" even though Siri spelled it correctly. Jessie Frye is in my library as well.
• it only allows preset EQ settings

The only thing keeping me on Apple Music is the Apple Lossless feature and the Apple HomePod I gave my mom which will only use Apple Music. Spotify's version is in limbo right now with no release date. I know that you can "curate a radio station" but I don't want to do that every time I want to listen to an artist. If anyone knows a better way to follow an artist, please let me know.

 

[sorgo †]

An actual artist-following feature set is so desperately needed as many have noted; at this point it just feels like a glaring omission on Apple’s part. Hopefully they can rectify the situation a bit with iOS 16.

 

[groove-agent]

Yesterday I had another instance where I was trying to find a particular heavy rock band called "Black Swan". It was in my library but when I asked Siri to play their music they gave me other bands called "Black Swan" that weren't in my library. I will give some kudos because when I asked for "the rock band Black Swan" it gave me a rock band version, but still not the right one.

I feel sorry for people who pay for the Siri version of Apple Music and listen to band names that have generic names. It would be almost impossible to use Siri to get the right version of that band/ artist name.

The same AI company that's going to bring you self-driving cars. Yikes!