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Current iOS Music app is GARBAGE
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Ok, well ironically I don't even have that anymore, I just never bothered to update my signature.
To those that use Cesium, I downloaded it and it seems like a great app. I like to listen to entire discographies in chronological order. A there anyway to do this? If I go into an artist then all songs it lists them in alphabetical order. If I go to songs it will do albums in alphabetical order and then lust the songs for each album in order. I would like to search by artist then have albums in order and play on the earliest album and have it run through all the songs in chronological order.
If you go to the artists tab and swipe left on the artist you want to listen to, the right button should add all of their albums to your play que in album order. I don't know if it's chronological though.
Edit: By default it's alphabetical. If you want it by year, go to more->settings->Sort Artist View By
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I know right? Just started yesterday and it's changing the whole experience. I edited my post above to show how you could change it to albums by year rather than alphabetical.
It's shockingly good. I was a little thrown off at first since they use pull down to refresh your iCloud tracks then pull down to show local storage. I think that's a poor choice of interaction. I think the pull down to refresh should be left as is and have a button or toggle to see local only. Otherwise good money spent.
Cesium is also a nice app with controls similar to pre-iOS8.4 Music app.
One complaint is the round scrubber instead of linear one - it makes it hard to seek to a specific time, when you move your thumb in a circle it tries to pull the screen downwards. If the app offers linear scrubber, it would be awesome. I had contacted the developer but seems he is not very active in supporting the app.
One complaint is the round scrubber instead of linear one - it makes it hard to seek to a specific time, when you move your thumb in a circle it tries to pull the screen downwards. If the app offers linear scrubber, it would be awesome. I had contacted the developer but seems he is not very active in supporting the app.
My biggest complaints about the current music app:
- The transparent status bar over the album art in the now playing screen is obstructive of the content (a clear violation of Apple's own GUI guidelines).
- The removal of any sort of landscape mode on the iPhone.
- The removal of the awesome shake-to-shuffle feature.
- The mini player is dull and unintuitive.
- Personal local music collections have now taken a backseat to the streaming and radio services. There's a reason why people get 64GB and 128GB iPhones ya know!
- The new icon is hideous (the iOS 8.0-8.3 icon was actually pretty good and stood out better on the home screen) and now we have another boring (mostly) white app icon.
Shame on Apple for designing and releasing the current music app in the current state it's in. I've been steadily losing faith in Apple on the software front but this just solidifies it.
- The transparent status bar over the album art in the now playing screen is obstructive of the content (a clear violation of Apple's own GUI guidelines).
- The removal of any sort of landscape mode on the iPhone.
- The removal of the awesome shake-to-shuffle feature.
- The mini player is dull and unintuitive.
- Personal local music collections have now taken a backseat to the streaming and radio services. There's a reason why people get 64GB and 128GB iPhones ya know!
- The new icon is hideous (the iOS 8.0-8.3 icon was actually pretty good and stood out better on the home screen) and now we have another boring (mostly) white app icon.
Shame on Apple for designing and releasing the current music app in the current state it's in. I've been steadily losing faith in Apple on the software front but this just solidifies it.
As I said Apple sucks at software and services.All of Google's apps on iOS are better designed than their iOS counterparts and even provide better functionality.I am enjoying Play Music while posting this
iOS was a really well-designed OS until Scott Forstall was fired. He made iOS what it is and then Jony Ive and Craig Federighi ruined it.
I disagree with the OP. It doesn't punish users who don't have Apple Music or iTunes March it seems to punish users who do have iTunes Match or Apple Music. Random songs skipping, wrong versions of songs and wrong artwork, then playlist randomly disappearing.
Somewhat ironic considering the previous music apps on the iPad resembled iTunes a lot more than they do now. Now it's essentially a blown-up version of the iPhone app.
FWIW, you can disable connect in Settings - it replaces it with Playlists.
But, I totally agree. I like the service but IMO the music app is a case of too much in too short a time. In all fairness it's a common trap to fall into - I'm an app developer and I've worked on projects where clients/product owners have had to say "It has to have this feature, and this one, and definitely this one!" and the people involved in the creation of the app can't help but think "It's quite obvious it will work this way, surely? People will pick this up easily". Unfortunately we're often wrong in this assumption but I'm just amazed a company like Apple could get this so badly wrong.
Apple doesn't have any actual UI designers now since Jony Ive and his team took over.
The stock iOS8/9.x music app and iTines are both a POS!
Apple were once the leaders in this field on a mobile device and now corporate greed has taken over at the cost of the end-users experience! [rant over] Agree with iOS 6 music player..bring it back!
I ended up buying a separate music player (not apple) that functions as intended with simplicity, functionality and no internet connection required that is small enough to carry around on my key fob.
Apple were once the leaders in this field on a mobile device and now corporate greed has taken over at the cost of the end-users experience! [rant over] Agree with iOS 6 music player..bring it back!
I ended up buying a separate music player (not apple) that functions as intended with simplicity, functionality and no internet connection required that is small enough to carry around on my key fob.
For me the biggest problem with Apple Music is lack of its reliability. Many months after its release, it is still unusable when it comes to streaming music through bluetooth - in this configuration, after dosen minutes of working, music starts to pause for a moment every 10-15 seconds (strangely haven't got that problem when using earphones yet, but maybe I use them for shorter periods of time).
If it is not fixed soon, I'll have to say it bye bye...
If it is not fixed soon, I'll have to say it bye bye...