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Current iOS Music app is GARBAGE
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Which is why I use Play Music which is 10x better.Honestly Google's apps make Apple apps seem like they were designed by amateurs
It's worse than that. It doesn't default to my local music and I am subscribed to Apple Music. At least not when it's not connected to the Internet (which is any time I'm on cellular data, which is the only time I listen to music).
Try Marvis app.. its very nice and the developer is also active and helpful to address any issues.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/marvis-music-player/id971737469?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/app/marvis-music-player/id971737469?mt=8
I wouldn't call it garbage, because I can find and play my music. But I think it needs some tweaking.
Except play music exists only because they bought Songza, which was amazing, for $30 million. Beats was horrible, but two weeks earlier Apple bought it for $billions. lol.
Apple integrated junk, junk continues.
Google integrated brilliance, brilliance continues.
It could have been the other way around, I think this says something about respective managers.
Google apps are good, but not really better than all their Apple equivalents. They usually push Java through a conversion program so it's not completely native (why Ingress breaks on every iOS update), they frequently waste a lot of screen real estate (YouTube red bar at the top is the worst offender, but they tend to waste vertical space a lot), a lot of design elements are a bit off (Google Drive uses a black background for png's, so black png's don't show up until you download them to the photos app), and Google only lets you look at one account at a time (Hangouts, Gmail need you to switch accounts every time rather than integrating your inboxes).
That's not to say that they don't make great apps that I find extremely useful (they do), but I don't think that they are design masterpieces when compared to Apple counterparts. I usually do like Apple's design (which I still like Apple Music's design. It's a very beautiful app), but Apple Music is a bit lacking in functionality from what we're used to.
EDIT: I guess not lacking in functionality. Just not as simple as we're used to from Apple.
Also, Play Music's tap test:
1. Open app
2. Tap menu
3. Tap My Library (look familiar?)
4. Tap Artists
5. Use the right alphabet to select letter
6. Tap on the artist.
Still one less than Apple Music (not a huge improvement), and a lot of vertical space is wasted by huge circular icons. It also doesn't remember where you were the last time you launched the app like Apple Music does, so you have to do those first 3 steps on every app reload.
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Using Apple Music and Spotify. Agree that it does need some help. But I have found myself using it more lately.
I fully agree with the original poster. I've noticed that Apple makes wonderful hardware, but they feel a need to change their apps just for the sake of changing them. I've noticed that this is a really bad idea in life. The other extreme is not changing at all, which can also be bad. The solution is to change only that which improves the product. Apple changes things just to make them "new". Maybe they think this is exciting for us? Or maybe they just don't have enough to do over there. It gets to a point where they are actually communicating arrogance, forcing on you features and changes you may have no interest in, and that just waste a bunch of time as you figure out how to disable or work around them. Pointless. Frustrating and annoying, too.
Why on earth is the play controls (even on a 6 Plus) in a tiny little strip at the bottom of the freaking gigantic music playback pane?
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WHY is that the smallest concievable thing in the playback pane? Even the text is stupidly small.
You can pause or play. You lost functionality with "track forward" or "track back". And the amount of space to go to a specific section of a track is so small you'd have to have freakishly small hands to use it.
It's dwarfed by the bottom stripe of tappable icons. You have to swipe up to get controls to go back a track or go forward a track. Why is it like this? Even on a 6 Plus it's miniscule.
The list of tracks above it you tap to get the recording started but I far more often used the "next track" or "previous track" buttons in the old playback.
You'd swear they were trying to make "music on your device" the least focus and Apple Music and other offerings the focus.
I would dearly love it if a developer produced a music playback app much like the older one. The current music player app is aimed at kids with perfect vision who sit waiting for their parents pick them up from school.
The older one far more easily facilitated the ability to change tracks easily while driving or on the move.
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WHY is that the smallest concievable thing in the playback pane? Even the text is stupidly small.
You can pause or play. You lost functionality with "track forward" or "track back". And the amount of space to go to a specific section of a track is so small you'd have to have freakishly small hands to use it.
It's dwarfed by the bottom stripe of tappable icons. You have to swipe up to get controls to go back a track or go forward a track. Why is it like this? Even on a 6 Plus it's miniscule.
The list of tracks above it you tap to get the recording started but I far more often used the "next track" or "previous track" buttons in the old playback.
You'd swear they were trying to make "music on your device" the least focus and Apple Music and other offerings the focus.
I would dearly love it if a developer produced a music playback app much like the older one. The current music player app is aimed at kids with perfect vision who sit waiting for their parents pick them up from school.
The older one far more easily facilitated the ability to change tracks easily while driving or on the move.
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I miss the old song progress bar on pre-iOS 7 Music app... The bar was thick, and the circular controller was very easy to tap/grab. The most infuriating thing for getting used to iOS 7/upwards was the new music interface where every font and character were too thin...
I still mistakenly adjust brightness on Control Center while thinking it is the song progress bar.
I still mistakenly adjust brightness on Control Center while thinking it is the song progress bar.
I would suggest checking out the Cesium app mentioned above. It works with everything in your library including Apple Music added to your library, and it's only an interface. If you quit the app while it's playing music, it is still playing from the Music app.Why on earth is the play controls (even on a 6 Plus) in a tiny little strip at the bottom of the freaking gigantic music playback pane?
The area I've edited here:
WHY is that the smallest concievable thing in the playback pane? Even the text is stupidly small.
You can pause or play. You lost functionality with "track forward" or "track back". And the amount of space to go to a specific section of a track is so small you'd have to have freakishly small hands to use it.
It's dwarfed by the bottom stripe of tappable icons. You have to swipe up to get controls to go back a track or go forward a track. Why is it like this? Even on a 6 Plus it's miniscule.
The list of tracks above it you tap to get the recording started but I far more often used the "next track" or "previous track" buttons in the old playback.
You'd swear they were trying to make "music on your device" the least focus and Apple Music and other offerings the focus.
I would dearly love it if a developer produced a music playback app much like the older one. The current music player app is aimed at kids with perfect vision who sit waiting for their parents pick them up from school.
The older one far more easily facilitated the ability to change tracks easily while driving or on the move.
That being said, how did you get your My Music over on that side? This is the first time I'm seeing any variation in the music app.
If that is how you roll hope they straighten it out for you. It should be simple. I just download my music from my computer to my phone. It was a trip just to get music to come on. So I am just going to that it works good.
IOS music app has never been very good, not even on the older versions, so no good going back over. The whole app needs a complete makeover. You can t even have simple things like your songs in artist order, or even if you could expand all albums or artists that would be ok.
It's all a bit prehistoric.
It's all a bit prehistoric.
I am mostly using that one since iOS 7 has been released:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ecoute-beautiful-music-player/id536882653?mt=8
I am especially liking the dark mode.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ecoute-beautiful-music-player/id536882653?mt=8
I am especially liking the dark mode.
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You used to be able to sort songs by artist order. It was an extra setting that you could toggle. (Also something you can do in the Cesium app. I think I have a new favorite music app. Thanks @crookadile!)
EDIT:
Just realized: since this app is only an interface, it won't effect Apple Watch or Siri functionality.
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Your welcome.
Cesium is my go to music app and has been since it was released. Well worth the money.
This is why I'm still using Mountain Lion and iOS 6. I refuse to embrace ugly operating systems and poor user experience.
At first read I thought you might be trolling, but then I looked at your signature, and I'm going to assume that you're being honest.
The devices I own doesn't have anything to do with it. I just don't like the recent versions of OS X and iOS, from a design and usability standpoint.
I mainly meant the 1st-gen iPad since it doesn't support newer than iOS 5.1.1.