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This Bose Flex claims up to 12 hours, and never mind filling a room, I'm worried about the neighbours. (I live in an apartment) I Just got it yesterday, so I'm logically testing it, for battery life, as I first played it in store, some proper German Schlager music ;-) It turned some heads....
Hello fellow lofi listener!!
Same here, I listen to a lot of lofi playlists, ambient stuff and video game soundtracks. AM has no clue what to do with me hah.
It’s clear that if you enjoy more general categories of music, like pop, hip hop or indie/alt stuff, then the recommendations are good. It’s when you get into niche stuff that it starts to trip up. Spotify I feel like does a better job with more niche genres.
Lofi usually gets lumped into the hip hop category because of the drum tracks I guess but AM doesn’t know any better at this point. Hopefully it gets better
699 artists
89 albums
5 stations
18,200 minutes
Apple One 2TB plan—> the reason for the paid plan.
iTunes Match subscription since day 1.
We have Spotify in the household, and the g/f likes it better, and I have Match, so I’d say, it’s not worth it but ‘the bundle’ makes spending about $5 more seem reasonable. IF PRICES continue to raise everywhere, I’ll unbundle for sure. We don’t use Arcade, TV+, and rarely use Fitness.
89 albums
5 stations
18,200 minutes
Apple One 2TB plan—> the reason for the paid plan.
iTunes Match subscription since day 1.
We have Spotify in the household, and the g/f likes it better, and I have Match, so I’d say, it’s not worth it but ‘the bundle’ makes spending about $5 more seem reasonable. IF PRICES continue to raise everywhere, I’ll unbundle for sure. We don’t use Arcade, TV+, and rarely use Fitness.
5 or more plays and you only have 200+ items in that playlist? Uff 😄
Do you have this in complement to another service? Or you're just not much of a music listener? Does it work ok for you? The idea of relying on Siri to know what I'm asking her for sounds utterly nightmarish to me. For the brief period I had a HomePod, I'd say that at least 10% of the time I asked to play something I'd have to go to my phone and manually select what I wanted because she'd either misunderstood, or pulled an obscure live session version of the track I requested, etc. Not having the ability to manually override Siri would kill me.
I'd like to see AM remember what radio stations I create and have them easy to access, but it's not a real issue.
I use AM every day. Sometimes for hours on end. Sometimes just a little while.
I had to go on Safari via Music on iOS to get the stats.
3648 Songs
1455 Artists
132 Albums
41 Playlists
47 Stations
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I got it to listen to Eckhart Tolle and other speaks 😁
I am not listening to contemporary music at all today. I have done that enough.
Have a big collection of music, that I outgrown mostly.
But there’s a lot of other interesting things on Apple Music.
I've become interested in what effects various frequencies have on us.
I’ve found 432 Hz quite interesting to listen to.
I am not listening to contemporary music at all today. I have done that enough.
Have a big collection of music, that I outgrown mostly.
But there’s a lot of other interesting things on Apple Music.
I've become interested in what effects various frequencies have on us.
I’ve found 432 Hz quite interesting to listen to.
I don’t have the opportunity to use it all the time.
As to Siri, I set my phone to text for Siri and works well, especially when I am out in public. At home, the HomePods are pretty good with commands.
That's because I also have a manually created playlist called 'My Favourites' which I often play, on shuffle, but I am adding to it all the time, even if I've never heard a song before but I really like it. Now at 222. Lets see if this share actually works, I made it public:
And then this is what I go snowboarding with. Contains a lot of songs from snowboard videos made on 8mm over 20 years ago:
The rest of the time when studying or working on my blogs I just play some random Lofi, indie, ambient or whatever is on an 'At the office' type playlist. This should then explain my somewhat high total usage.
Now while I am curious as to how much people use Apple Music, I'm actually more interested in what everyday folks are consciously choosing to listening to. I'm willing to bet that although AM, Spotify etc have huge libraries of 90+ millions songs, there are probably large blocks of stuff no one ever listens to. So, I am busy compiling a new playlist from what has been shared so far, think I'll call it 'Macrumors', or something...I'm always on the lookout for 'new' stuff, haven't deliberately listened to U2 for years now.
So, if anyone else would like to make their playlists public and share a link direct to them, feel free
It would save me having to manually recreate them from screenshots ;-)
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Same here. I ripped all my CD's into iTunes, some 20k songs, a library I spent a good part of 10 years curating. Enter Apple Music...Like I said earlier, my old library now sits on an external HD in a drawer.
Now when I first tried Apple Music in 2015 I did it in the same library, which subsequently got butchered, because a lot of my CD rips were missing or had the wrong meta data/album art, so iTunes cloud / Match / AM didn't know what to do with them. So I gave up on AM after the 3 month free trial. It was only last year when I re-started Apple Music that I had the brain fart to start a new library, much like you can do with iMovie and Photos. So no, I can't listen to my Apple Music and iTunes libraries at the same time, but this works for me in that the quality and volume levels of my Rips vs AM is much, much lower. My old library is also not synced with the clouds.
But, what still takes centre stage in my living room and gets regularly played, when I'm at home in Belgium, is my vinyl collection I've spent the last 40 years putting together. The only 'issue' with it is it isn't exactly portable. I usually work winter seasons in the Austrian Alps and taking it with isn't really an option. Also, taking vinyls on African safaris doesn't work very well either. I did however spend some time during lockdown digitising a few of my favourite records. This of course had to be done in real time, and all the track data then manually entered, but yea, I kinda had the time. One 40 minute record would take up to 4 hours to fully capture. I did 30 records, with the free open source software Audacity on my 2011 MacBook Pro. I don't throw away my old electronic devices, I just re-purpose them. Now I actually can take my records with me, in a way, especially the ones not on AM.
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Yes - I tried to merge my rips with Apple Music library but it was so full of duplications (where Apple didn’t recognise the rip even though it was an everyday common album and so added its own version making a duplicate) that the library became a complete bloated mess. So I just abandoned my rips and one by one downloaded the album into a new AM hosted library. But, like I say, I got so side tracked by the new artists I discovered that many of my old artists didn’t get added and probably never will.
Funny, didn’t know it was possible to share like this. Pretty cool 👍🏻That's because I also have a manually created playlist called 'My Favourites' which I often play, on shuffle, but I am adding to it all the time, even if I've never heard a song before but I really like it. Now at 222. Lets see if this share actually works, I made it public:
And then this is what I go snowboarding with. Contains a lot of songs from snowboard videos made on 8mm over 20 years ago:
The rest of the time when studying or working on my blogs I just play some random Lofi, indie, ambient or whatever is on an 'At the office' type playlist. This should then explain my somewhat high total usage.
Now while I am curious as to how much people use Apple Music, I'm actually more interested in what everyday folks are consciously choosing to listening to. I'm willing to bet that although AM, Spotify etc have huge libraries of 90+ millions songs, there are probably large blocks of stuff no one ever listens to. So, I am busy compiling a new playlist from what has been shared so far, think I'll call it 'Macrumors', or something...I'm always on the lookout for 'new' stuff, haven't deliberately listened to U2 for years now.
So, if anyone else would like to make their playlists public and share a link direct to them, feel free
Funny, didn’t know it was possible to share like this. Pretty cool
I also think it’s cool, didn’t know it either. But, such sharing doesn’t work with Tapatalk, which I pay for. That sub is one I am cancelling.
Interesting, do you have any favorite speakers on that besides Eckhart Tolle? I have always enjoyed his books and it didn’t occur to me to find talks like that on apple music. A couple similar speakers I like are Jack Kornfield and Sadhguru.
It didn't occur to me either before that was the main reason why the subscription is worth it to me.
I like Abraham Hicks and Adyashanti also for instance. Not a lot of either of them on Apple Music, but some I haven’t gone through.
I even found a decent collection of Maria Callas which is one of my favorite not so contemporary artists. I have an own pretty large collection of her.
Also good that I don’t have starting to mess with all my own music files. I have them securely saved and backed up though. But better and easier with Apple Music, as music is not a big priority for me today, just occasionally.
Thank you for the ideas! I’ll check those out.
I have a large music collection that I also find use for less and less, the past several years. It seems using my own files, in conjunction with any Apple Music use, is a pretty messy hassle, where having Apple Music turned on seems to mess up my existing playlists and files, with Tunes often calling a bunch of files/songs I know I have “missing.” Weird… but another reason to gradually release the much-ingrained habit of collecting, cataloguing, backing up, etc., actual .mp3 files.