r/AppleMusic

I built a free Apple Music companion app/site called MatchBeats and I’d love some honest feedback from fellow Apple Music users.

https://matchbeats.com

The idea started because I was frustrated that music discovery is mostly algorithm-driven. Apple Music and other services can recommend songs, but they can’t really tell you:

“Who has music taste similar to mine?”

MatchBeats analyzes your Apple Music listening history and:

• Finds people with similar music taste
• Shows why you match (artists, tracks, genres, and recent listening)
• Helps you discover artists and songs your matches love that you haven’t heard yet
• Lets you discuss artists and tracks with other fans

My biggest question:

Would you personally use something like this, or is music discovery already solved for you by Apple Music recommendations?

I’d genuinely appreciate the feedback.

So was playing AM tonight via Airplay 2 to my Cambridge Audio EVO 75. It should normally show up as 16/44 AAC.
But tonight, using both a iPhone 17 running the most current IOS version and an older IPad Air running older software and after rebooting both devices a couple of times and just changing albums and tracks..it all showed ALAC on the Apple devices. However my Cambridge was still showing AAC..BUT the other night, the Cambridge kept bouncing back from AAC to ALAC.
So anyone else notice this? Is it just me? Any explanations?

hey all. i bought fourtets new album last night off bandcamp. downloaded the file in alac, imported to the music player on my desktop. same on my phone. ive included two screenshot to show. if i click on the cloud with the exclamation point to the right of the track, i only have the option to delete the track. i deleted the album and redownloaded, still the same situation, the same tracks. any ideas? is it a flaw in the original file? thanks!

ps yes those are actually the track names. i guess hes into wingdings for this project lol.

EDIT: i think there is something wrong with the files. i have tried the various solutions suggested here, and redownloaded the files from bandcamp to no avail. i guess my next step is to email bandcamp? not sure, never been in this situation before. thanks for the help everyone.

Hello,

I’m Barry, the developer for a new app called Turns. It’s a music app that connects to Apple Music and can take multiple playlists and combine them into a mix so everyone gets a song.

I got the idea for Turns going on a family road trip with our three-year-old daughter. I told her that we all got a turn to pick a song, that way everyone can listen to some of what they want to hear. I quickly found it difficult because my wife was asking me what I wanted as she was managing the queue, and it was tough to come up with songs off the top of my head. I was thinking it’d be neat if I could just pick my playlist, one of my wife’s, and my daughter’s and automatically have a song play from each. Since building it, I’ve found it handy even for personal listening when I want to pick a few playlists tailored to specific genres or moods and forget about picking songs!

The app is free to use with no ads, and allows you to make a mix from two playlists and replay your last couple mixes. I do have a one-time purchase for a Pro version for $6.99 that unlocks mixing an unlimited number of playlists, weighting how many songs play each turn from a playlist, Kids Mode to filter out explicit songs, and more!

I built the app with a couple of development decisions in mind — keep the app efficient and support a lot of devices. I’ve ensured the app is efficient with RAM usage, and only takes up 5.6MB storage when installed. As far as device support, it’s compatible back to iOS 15. I’m an iPod guy, and I wanted the app to run on the last iPod touch.

As far as a roadmap, I have a lot of what I wanted to implement for myself done. Here’s what I have planned:

- iPadOS support is in development now and should be ready in the next couple of weeks
- Support for other streaming services
- Most likely won’t be offering direct support for other streaming services, but hoping to at least be able to make playlists from other services easy to use in Turns
- Local music library support

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/turns-everyone-gets-a-song/id6779756400

I had a lot of fun building this app and using it myself so far and hope that some others will enjoy it too! Any feedback is welcome!

I saw this like in may or something and thought nothing of it, now it's gone, I was excited about automix when I saw it.

Looking for some Apple Music friends to share music with. I mostly listen to ambient, classical, jazz, indie, pop, rock, and experimental but I’m open to pretty much anything.

Here’s my profile ID:

https://music.apple.com/profile/wassimelia

I was going to update my Spotify app with my current Apple Music library as a just in case I need to use Spotify again so I did the music sync thing on Apple Music but nothing changed on Spotify then my retarded ass just remember it’s in opposite way for music sync now all my music progress is fucking gone on my main music app 💔💔💔, PLEASE TELL THERES ANYTHING I CAN DO TO RESTORE IT LIKE ICLOUD OR SOMETHING PLEASE I ACTUALLY WANT TO FUCKING CRASH OUT 😭

Symphony is now fully built for iPad with landscape support and many little iPad specific tweaks like tappable Artist and Album names in Playlists, full screen CoverFlow etc.

App is already available for iPhone and can fully replace the native app with only a few differences like Auto mix and lyrics. But Symphony offers a lot more functionality depending on your needs. Hope you enjoy!

Download for free from App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/symphony-for-apple-music/id6480095014

Is this automatic crossfade android's version of automix for Apple music. Because I have noticed the transitions are really smoother just like how it works on my iPhone.

version: 6.5.0-beta

App is called MuCase, I‘m not the creator but wanted to shout out the beautiful design and functions 🙌

I have been trouble shooting this for about 2 days now. My MacBook has all of my burned cds and downloaded music and my 1000 playlist and I can see and use them. My iPhone 17 pro only shows a fraction of that after working with Apple help.

For example I have 8 RHCP albums in my iTunes (music) on my Mac but only one album (sex magik) sync’d to my iPhone when we did a manual sync with a cable earlier today. Stadium arcadium is on my Mac and info shows it’s stored in the cloud.

It’s confusing. And I do have iTunes Match and it’s active and it’s the same account.

Just now I see that on my phone the sync library is not toggled on. Is that the source of the problem?

If I do toggle that on, does that mess up my MacBook library of music? Or does it force the music on my MacBook over to my iPhone, essentially fixing my issue