Anyone here use Apple Music?

I have iTunes. I had to buy a new computer a few months ago and when I talked to the sales rep about whether I could keep my iTunes music, without changes, to the format, he told me that Apple basically just changed the name of iTunes to Apple Music. When I got home and turned on my new computer, all my albums, songs and playlists were there. No problem. I had around 900 albums on iTunes, so I was relieved to find I did not lose any, through their format change. Many of those albums were from CDs I had purchased and downloaded onto iTunes.

I have a PC and recently upgraded to an Iphone14.  Moving my music has been a huge cluster.  Songs show up with the wrong album cover and lots of songs won't transfer over.  I either get the circle indicating itunes can't find the song, or I get an error that it can't play a song in my region. 

I purchase most new music through amazon, song I bought a few weeks ago get the region error or just won't transfer to itunes.  I wonder if apple just wants to make it harder to load songs from another vendor.  I ended up wiping out my entire library and reloading everything.  That fixed 95% of the problems.  I still end up with some missing songs that just won't load.  Also, every time I hook up my phone, it duplicates the playlists so instead of 2, I have 4.  Then 8.  So I have to manually delete the duplicate playlists.  You also have to do that through Itunes, because if I manually delete a playlist on my phone, the next time I sync, all playlists are gone. 

Pain in the ass.

Anyone notice that if made playlists in the AmazonMusic app and ask your echo dot to shuffle your music, it will always shuffle the same 20 songs first, even though I have about 24 hours of music in my playlist.  I assume they want you purchasing their streaming service instead of using your own playlists. 

YEah, digging more it looks like you can no longer manage your phones from the Apple Music program like you could iTunes.  You have to manually delete each item from you phone.  I need to look for other music library options.

I have Apple Music, but only for the car and when I am in the mood for Dolby Atmos music on my surround sound rig, so I never use it on a PC. Periodically I use it on a Mac.

@mrtundra posted:

I have iTunes. I had to buy a new computer a few months ago and when I talked to the sales rep about whether I could keep my iTunes music, without changes, to the format, he told me that Apple basically just changed the name of iTunes to Apple Music. When I got home and turned on my new computer, all my albums, songs and playlists were there. No problem. I had around 900 albums on iTunes, so I was relieved to find I did not lose any, through their format change. Many of those albums were from CDs I had purchased and downloaded onto iTunes.

That’s how it’s supposed to work. Something is up with Maynard’s PC.

Yeah I don't know.  I hadn't upgraded my Mac's OS for a few years since I was still using 32 bit programs and needed them.  So I finally did the big OS upgrade and it just replaced iTunes and wiped everything from my music library.  I still had all the actual music files on my external drive where they are housed, but all of the info in the Music app was gone (albums, songs, artists, playlists).  I didn't expect that to happen.

But it is just really disappointing that when I connect my iPhone to my Mac it literally just shows the files on the device--you can drag new songs on to it, but you can't highlight and delete anymore.  So really cumbersome.

iTunes also used to catch if you were adding duplicates to your device, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore wither.  I've found 4 copies of some albums on my phone.  Just confused!

I will fool around with it and see what I can figure out. I keep my ripped files on a NAS, but I have never pointed my Mac at it. I will try that and see what that looks like.

"Songs show up with the wrong album cover." I had that happen, as well, or with no album cover, at all. Other times when I'd buy an album, on iTunes, it would split the album in thirds so I'd have three album covers showing, with two or three songs, on each. A royal pain to try to put all the songs back under one album cover. I still do not know how to do it and am afraid I'll lose the music if I try to fix that problem. In order to play those albums, from start to finish, I had to put them in a playlist.

I did figure out how to delete songs in Apple Music--just highlight and hit the delete key!  Doh!

But I still wish it was more user friendly!

Sorry man, i was in St Louis when i was replying to you earlier. I havent tried getting my files on Apple Music yet. I will give it a sot.

It looks like you figured it out already. YEAH, Apple is not very consumer friendly when it comes to music. For audiophiles they are a nightmare.

I just took possession of a Mac Mini M2 to play spatial audio and still get access to Hi Res audio on Apple Music. How disappointing to learn that it samples everything to 48khz. The Apple TV 4K it was meant to place does the same thing. How frustrating. I am sending it back right away.