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  1. mrfabio

    iPhone Music app for my FLAC files

    Hi, Do you have by chance a good music app (Free or not but without subscription) to suggest for playing offline HI-res music? I recently bought a DAC to connect to my iPhone for this purpose and also have bought some FLAC albums from Qobuz in the past. I would like to avoid to have to buy a...
  2. R

    HomePod I can't AirPlay to my new HomePod from Music App from my Mac

    Hello, I've just finished setting up my HomePod. Everything works fine, except when I try to use it as an AirPlay speaker from the Music app on my Mac. It keeps telling me that "only people who share a home in the Home app can control this speaker" (my translation, don't know if that's the...
  3. Mitthrawnuruodo

    Music app won't play Matched songs "not available in your Country"

    I have iTunes Match (now iTunes in the cloud?) and Apple Music. Quite often a track, that has been Matched (because I've ripped it from a CD or something), just won't play from the Playing Next list and the Music app is just hanging (sometimes "for ever", other times just for a while before...
  4. appleguy

    Music 1.0.3.1 iheartradio not connecting to Airplay

    Anyone else experiencing issues trying to Airplay from Music App on Mac with the iheart stations? Anything else from Music plays fine to my AppleTV which I have connected to a AMP, but when I try to play an iheart radio station it only plays through the Mac.
  5. D

    Music.app converts to AAC but results in dups

    Hi guys, When I import a new music folder into the music app, and select Edit>Convert to AAC, I get the new converted files BUT music keeps the original MP3s alongside which I then need to delete one-by-one – frustrating! Is there any way to automatically keep ONLY the freshly converted...
  6. byke

    Corrupted Siri with Apple Music

    I am currently situated in Stockholm Sweden, and have found a bug. Usually I use Siri to "play BBC radio 1" for example. But just recently, I have discovered that while Siri understands the request. it supplements me with an alternative station (related to my location) and not what I asked for...
  7. throwaway738382

    New songs won't copy from music app on Macbook to music app on iPhone

    iPhone 11 and Macbook Air early 2014 I've recently stopped being able to sync my music from the music app (Catalina, so basically iTunes) to my iPhone. These songs weren't purchased on iTunes, most of them were downloaded from the internet (let's not get into legal and ethical issues here...
  8. C

    iPhone New Apple Music app called SongOwl

    I'm excited to introduce my new app SongOwl, a new alternative for managing and playing your Apple Music library. SongOwl is different because it approaches navigation non-linearly. This allows you to create your own reusable "paths" for exploring your music however you want. In SongOwl, every...
  9. Daveb517

    Music not working on MacBook

    Hello for the past 3 days now I can't listen to anything on Music (former iTunes). When I launch it starts updating Cloud Music Library and immediately there's an error (see images below). I tried quitting and launching Music, restarting my MacBook, signing out and signing in with my Apple ID...
  10. pedzsan

    iPhone Music in my car restarts the playlist whereas it use to not do that...

    I switched phones to iPhone 11 at the same time everything updated to iOS 13. At the time, I was listening to podcasts and not music. Now, using 13.3, the music acts different than it use to. I'm in a 2015 Fit that is not using Car play but connects via bluetooth to the iPhone. In the past...
  11. Dave Wehr

    Playing Music from Siri Watch Face

    the Siri watch face will suggest music and when I tap it I get an option to play on iPhone. Every time I do that it says there was a problem.
  12. BrotherNight

    Issue adding music to iMovie project

    I’m creating a slideshow in iMovie and I’m trying to add some recently purchased music. However, when I look for the music in iMovie’s “audio” section, the new music isn’t there. I realized I haven’t opened the Music app since purchasing it, so I did and the recent purchases downloaded...
  13. T

    Alternative to Music.app (Catalina)

    I am looking for an alternative Music plater for Mac OS. I wish to say goodbye to Music.app as there are several issues which I cannot live with. Are there any great alternatives? I am looking for an application that plays the music (mostly mp3s), allows me to search it quickly and to organize...
  14. MacFlaX

    iPad Apple Music app disappeared - re-install from AppStore doesn't work

    On my iPad Pro 11” the Apple Music app “disappeared”, most likely since 13.3 update. The Music app is shown in AppStore as not installed, but downloadable (cloud+arrow symbol shown). Unfortunately the re-download doesn’t work. Log off and log on from iCloud Appstore account and device restart...
  15. R

    Music app: location of some songs show a completely unrelated file. How to fix it?

    Hello, I installed Catalina in a new MBPr some weeks ago, and updated my iTunes library there. The library and the music are on an external SSD. Most of my music are ALAC rips from my CDs. I have been using more and more Apple Music this year, but still, the big majority of my music is like I...
  16. jagooch

    Music App Memory Bug and Fix!

    The Symptom You get "System has run out of application memory" message and have to force quit apps or restart your Mac to free up memory. The Issue You have a large Album Artwork folder. Music has problems loading this. It will get stuck in a "loading artwork loop" until you exit the app or...
  17. !!!

    iPhone Where is upcoming music in the new music app?

    I was forced to update my phone to iOS 13 due to some issue with my phone screen and apple wiping it. Now, I cannotswipe down on the music app to reveal the upcoming music. I used this all the time. Why has apple removed it? Even have Apple Music and everything, and now theyre basically making...
  18. P

    Import Windows iTunes library into Catalina Music?

    I tried copying over my Windows iTunes library, and opening the .itl library file with the "Choose Library..." feature when option-clicking the Music.app, but it doesn't accept it as a valid library. Has anyone figured out how to import a Windows Library into Music?
  19. ReardenMetal

    iPhone AirPlay fails on iOS/iPadOS, works flawlessly on MacOS. Ideas?

    I have the latest gen Airport Express plugged into powered speakers. My MacBook Air is able to send audio to those speakers without ever failing to connect. 100% success rate. On iOS/iPadOS, however, it has a mind of its own and connects when it wants to. Fails many, many times. Often I have to...
  20. marzer

    Will a CLEAN install lose my iTunes playlists?

    I want to do a clean install of Catalina and then pull my user data in from my backup drive. My only concern is for my legacy iTunes library. How will the new Music app know to convert from the old iTunes format to the new Music app library? Most important to me are my iTunes playlists. I don't...