r/AppleMusic

I switched to Apple Music about 6 months ago after my Spotify student plan expired, and decided to give it a try since Apple Music also offered a student plan.

Overall, I actually really like Apple Music. The sound quality is great, most of the songs I used to listen to on Spotify are available.

But the search function is just horrible. On Spotify, I could type the first letter of a song and it would find the song instantly. With Apple Music, even when I type the correct song title, it just doesn't find the song... If they could improve that, I genuinely would not have much else to complain about.

I mean there is a workaround where you can just search for the song on google and open it directly in Apple Music, but no one should go through all of that..

While it's completely understandable to vent here, please remember that the most effective way to get these Android and Windows bugs fixed is to report them straight to Apple's official support and feedback channels.

...be directly compatible with Sonos? I'd love to be able to use Smart Playlists on my Sonos system. Is it a pipedream?

If Apple Music had Spotify's playlist ecosystem, the debate would be over.

I genuinely love almost everything about Apple Music bro, the UI, audio quality, and the overall vibe.

But yoo, the playlist situation is so ahhh.

I know public playlists exist on AM, but finding them is a chore. Spotify makes user created playlists so accessible and easily searchable.

On AM, it feels like you're stuck relying on their official curated lists (which is also buns) or praying you stumble across a good user list.

What makes it frustrating is how painfully slow Apple is to respond to community feedback.

Right now i’m still copying Spotify playlists and transferring them over via the transfer playlist thingy

Anyone else feel like this is the main thing holding AM back?

Multi-Trillion Dollar Infrastructure with some of the largest data centers on earth, yet their artist analytics regularly lag by 72+ hours, crash during global batch updates, and throw cryptic server errors "The Artist portal is currently experiencing an outage."

What makes more Absurd?

The entire "Promote" toolkit is literally just an automated banner with an image from the artist album designed to turn the artist into unpaid billboard space for Apple Music!!!

You hear "Promote your music on Apple," you reasonably expect discovery campaigns, pitch placements, or algorithmic boosts. Instead, “Here is your album artwork with an Apple Music logo on it. Congratulations, you are now our marketing department.... share it in your social media”, seriously?!

Meanwhile, the analytics dashboard is acting like a 2005 government website trying to process your request through three fax machines!

Apple has spent decades building an ecosystem obsessed with **beautiful interfaces**, yet the moment you want to see the metrics of your release you get an error **“Data may be unavailable.”**

Beautifully designed rectangle.

Absolutely no fucking data.

Just brilliant!

I’m currently trying to decide which music streaming service to stick with, and I’m curious what matters most to other people.

So I’ve been having this issue for the past few weeks, and I really hope someone can help…

Background: I do not have an Apple Music subscription, but I do transfer ripped MP3s from my windows pc to the iPhone using the Apple devices app, so I can listen while offline.

As of late, my iPhone will just delete most of my music all on its own. I only have 2GB of music in the first place, and it always removes about 1.8GB. The remaining music seems random. It’s an assortment of the ripped music and songs bought directly through iTunes back in the day. Today I watched my music library implode in real time after I tapped on shuffle. It was like someone thanos-snapped my library.

In forums people say it’s one of two things: storage optimization or a syncing issue.

Despite what the forum users claim, there is no “optimize storage” switch in the music section of settings (maybe it was removed). Also, I still have 5GB of space left when the full library is on my phone…

As for syncing: the Apple devices program I use to sync music through windows is indeed very buggy, but this all happens days later after my iPhone has been unplugged from the pc. It’s also connected to the internet the whole time, so why now?

I’m really hoping someone can help because the music app has become pretty much unusable, and I’d hate to switch to android just so I can listen to music…

I feel like EPs and albums should be grouped together on artists’ pages. EPs are basically mini albums, so in my mind it would make sense and would make navigating an artist’s discography a little easier.

Depending on the artist, you sometimes have to scroll through like 7 singles they released for an album, then a random EP, then a couple more standalone singles, etc. It can make the experience kind of annoying.

Is there a reason most streaming services separate EPs and albums like this instead of grouping them together chronologically?

I have recently switched from Spotify to Apple Music and I made a playlist of all of my songs (4923 songs) in my Spotify library so that I would be able to add them to my Apple Music library. The playlist has been exported to the Apple Music app through the app itself but I cannot add all of the individual songs in the playlist to the Apple Music library no matter how hard I try. When I searched up my problem, people talk about the "Add to Library" button on a playlist but the playlist I have created does not have that option, instead only has the "Download" option. What can I do? I already tried deleting every song and every playlist in the library to start over again multiple times. The only thing I had a success with so far has been creating a sort of "section playlist" of 100 songs from the main playlist on my Windows PC and then creating another copy of that 100 song playlist on my iPhone. Doing it like that does make the "Add to Library" option to pop up and allows me to add the songs to my library but it is such a hassle. There must be an easier way to do this that I'm missing.

Hi all. Let's say I rip a CD I own, like Coldplay's Parachutes. I have all the tracks except the two most popular-- Sparks and Yellow. I saw them rip fine, but now Apple Music has lost them.

And let's say I rip a different CD, Halsey's The Great Impersonator. The 2nd, 5th, and 14th tracks are gone.

I have tried a couple times, and the songs "rip" but never make it into the library. What gives? I'm not doing anything illegal.

I have a MacBook Pro 2018 and an iPhone 13 mini and my software is up to date.

Any info helps. I can't seem to get answers online.

Trying to login to the Apple Music on windows but every time I enter my credentials it buffers and then does absolutely nothing. Is there a fix anyone knows about? Im on windows 11.