Does anyone have any ideas and experience with an alternative to the junk and crap app “Apple Music” that has my music library held hostage?
Now that I have upgraded my hardware in computing inventory, on both moble and big boy toys It seems I am stuck with the default music player for Apple, and I am finding more and more bugs and non-working parts of that app everyday; and its just not going to work like iTunes did in any stretch of the imagination.
I have over 11,500 individual song titles in my music library, made up of all genre, and it stretches out to over 33 days of continuous play time… and its current, with many of the more recent titles being purchased through the Apple iTunes Store. Needless to say, I have a lot invested into it; particularly as it relates to effort, and time; but not to leave out the mention of monetarily. There has been a lot of money dropped in the iTunes Store. All those decisions we made under the premise that the iTunes software or something else that came from Apple that worked satisfactorily as a digital asset manager would continue to function and do the same job as iTunes had been doing for all these years. I am finding that just isn’t the case with Apple Music. And frankly, it just plain sucks. It’s broke and can not manage my music anywhere close to the what iTunes did, and even the parts the Music apps tries, it fails miserably, with incessant bugs and flaws in the design and operation. It can’t even get the music playlists correct, or synchronization of them across my devices via iCloud.
Has a one found a viable alternative that can be used? It’s an absolute shame that a company such as Apple that was known for producing quality products that “just work” fall apart so quickly, but it seems that is what has happened.
I am looking for something, anything that can reasonably replace the iTunes management and functionality that I got used to, (its bugs and all) of a like kind software… Any ideas?
I read recently that Apple was about to convert the Windows version of iTunes over to the Music app… which sucks because that is the only thing I have found that still worked reasonably well and was capable of managing play lists, etc… I also have a extensive library of DVD’s that I have and was wanting to convert the totality of those into all digital to be incorporated into a multi-media library where I could have a entertainment server for the house… the was the original plan and even Synology had started producing an iTunes server software that could be used with their NAS hardware. Of curse that all came to a crashing halt when Apple made its shift to the Music app.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated; - I have started to preliminarily started looking at PLEX server, but hear it has its own set of issues and the interface isn’t very intuitive. I personally liked where Apple was going with Front Row that had already been integrated into both the Apple software and hardware (remotes for Mac mini and iMac’s had already been combined with the sale of the hardware… so Apple’s shift in this realm must have cost them something…
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Now that I have upgraded my hardware in computing inventory, on both moble and big boy toys It seems I am stuck with the default music player for Apple, and I am finding more and more bugs and non-working parts of that app everyday; and its just not going to work like iTunes did in any stretch of the imagination.
I have over 11,500 individual song titles in my music library, made up of all genre, and it stretches out to over 33 days of continuous play time… and its current, with many of the more recent titles being purchased through the Apple iTunes Store. Needless to say, I have a lot invested into it; particularly as it relates to effort, and time; but not to leave out the mention of monetarily. There has been a lot of money dropped in the iTunes Store. All those decisions we made under the premise that the iTunes software or something else that came from Apple that worked satisfactorily as a digital asset manager would continue to function and do the same job as iTunes had been doing for all these years. I am finding that just isn’t the case with Apple Music. And frankly, it just plain sucks. It’s broke and can not manage my music anywhere close to the what iTunes did, and even the parts the Music apps tries, it fails miserably, with incessant bugs and flaws in the design and operation. It can’t even get the music playlists correct, or synchronization of them across my devices via iCloud.
Has a one found a viable alternative that can be used? It’s an absolute shame that a company such as Apple that was known for producing quality products that “just work” fall apart so quickly, but it seems that is what has happened.
I am looking for something, anything that can reasonably replace the iTunes management and functionality that I got used to, (its bugs and all) of a like kind software… Any ideas?
I read recently that Apple was about to convert the Windows version of iTunes over to the Music app… which sucks because that is the only thing I have found that still worked reasonably well and was capable of managing play lists, etc… I also have a extensive library of DVD’s that I have and was wanting to convert the totality of those into all digital to be incorporated into a multi-media library where I could have a entertainment server for the house… the was the original plan and even Synology had started producing an iTunes server software that could be used with their NAS hardware. Of curse that all came to a crashing halt when Apple made its shift to the Music app.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated; - I have started to preliminarily started looking at PLEX server, but hear it has its own set of issues and the interface isn’t very intuitive. I personally liked where Apple was going with Front Row that had already been integrated into both the Apple software and hardware (remotes for Mac mini and iMac’s had already been combined with the sale of the hardware… so Apple’s shift in this realm must have cost them something…
