[HN Gopher] Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio
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Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio
Author : orf
Score : 35 points
Date : 2021-05-18 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| ncmncm wrote:
| Apparently, mentioning Stockholm Syndrome in any connection with
| Apple causes several automated accounts to downvote you
| immediately. Watch!
| thenoblesunfish wrote:
| Hallelujah. iTunes slowly became so intolerable that after using
| it for 20 years, I switched to my own cobbled-together system of
| mpd, ncmpcpp, Decoupled (for iPhone), scripts, and a folder full
| of audio files. A pain, but better than iTunes was.
| mkw2k wrote:
| Apple music is absolutely a piece of shit app and has been
| getting worse over time.
| tolbish wrote:
| FWIW, Spotify recently fixed this after the feature was taken out
| for several years. So now you can view every song that has been
| played, in order.
| orf wrote:
| Seems like such an obvious feature to have!
| unethical_ban wrote:
| How do you do that? I see search history, some recent tracks,
| but not the extensive feature you list.
| bin_bash wrote:
| Clock/timer icon on the top right
| syntaxing wrote:
| I think the biggest problem is that the app is geared towards
| cellphones. It's just like Spotify desktop app around 3 years ago
| before the revamp.
| nicepan wrote:
| I ran into this exact problem myself. In the end, my only option
| was to request a download of my Apple ID data and look through
| the CSV files to finally find the track.
| orf wrote:
| Your Apple ID data has a complete track listing? That's
| fantastic!
| floatingatoll wrote:
| It seems like the author of this post isn't aware of the History
| feature built-in to both desktop and mobile Music.app (formerly
| known as iTunes). I don't imagine they care that it exists, or
| that it invalidates the example they used in their rant about
| Apple software quality, but for whatever it's worth, mine goes
| back for weeks or months across many device restarts.
| 3gg wrote:
| Why not use a different music player and maybe also write about
| problems that actually matter? This is quite honestly a very
| silly post to write, let alone to actively advertise.
| AzzieElbab wrote:
| anyone seen amazon's audio? cancelled free trial within 2 days
| unethical_ban wrote:
| This is why you should have a blog: Because when you throw your
| reddit comments onto your own website and show a "post archive"
| on the sidebar, you're a blogger worth being submitted to Hacker
| News.
|
| The point is valid, but the presentation and profane clickbait
| are lower tier.
| orf wrote:
| What a pointlessly elitist take. People shouldn't have a blog,
| or submit their content to hacker news, unless it's "worthy"?
| As if being "worthy" of hacker news is some mantle everyone
| should strive for.
|
| If you don't like it, don't vote for it. But I didn't quite
| feel like writing a long-form piece about my Apple Music woes
| and submitting it to the New Yorker this time.
| unethical_ban wrote:
| It's as much a commentary on HN itself. If this exact post
| were a comment on /r/apple, it likely would have been flagged
| and deleted.
|
| I didn't flag this or report it. Hey, I write lots of reddit
| comments and some blog posts, too. I even said it made a good
| point!
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