{"id":32062,"date":"2021-04-05T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32062"},"modified":"2021-08-13T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T18:25:09","slug":"apple-music-macos-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/apple-music-macos-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music macOS Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU\">Your Product Sucks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU\"><p>Apple Music app on macOS Catalina is &ldquo;not so great&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This one can&rsquo;t be blamed on Catalyst.<\/p>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2021\/04\/02\/your-product-sucks-apple-music-mac\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2021\/04\/02\/your-product-sucks-apple-music-mac\">\n<p>Music on Mac is just an utter embarrassment for Apple. Truly an ignominious fate for iTunes, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/227143\/15-years-of-itunes-a-look-at-apples-media-app-and-its-influence-on-an-industry.html\">started 20 years ago<\/a> as an exemplar of a great Mac app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/wwdc-2021-announced-and-new-developer-app\/\">WWDC 2021 Announced and New Developer App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/31\/how-to-search-your-music-library-in-catalina\/\">How to Search Your Music Library in Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/02\/the-falling-ladder-of-abstractions\/\">The Falling Ladder of Abstractions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/itunes-xml-and-music-in-catalina\/\">iTunes XML and Music in Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/music-app-on-macos-10-15\/\">Music.app on macOS 10.15<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/is-there-hope-for-the-mac-app-store\/\">Is There Hope for the Mac App Store?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-music-macos-review-update-2021-04-15\">Update (2021-04-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cabel\/status\/1381651405031661569\">Cabel Sasser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cabel\/status\/1381651405031661569\"><p>That is definitely not the UI experience I expected when clicking &ldquo;more&rdquo; in Music<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-music-macos-review-update-2021-08-13\">Update (2021-08-13): <a href=\"https:\/\/mdhughes.tech\/2021\/08\/12\/the-death-of-itunes\/\">Mark Hughes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mdhughes.tech\/2021\/08\/12\/the-death-of-itunes\/\"><p>So, I was listening to my last playlist, and realized I don&rsquo;t own one of the albums, so I figure I&rsquo;ll grab it off iTunes&#8230;<\/p><p>No iTunes app. No &ldquo;show in iTune Store&rdquo; action on the album page (Share has since shown back up, because Apple Music is non-deterministic). There&rsquo;s an iTunes Store on my phone, but I want to download it here on my desktop. Fine, where&rsquo;s the store page. It&rsquo;s&#8230; missing. After some duck searches, turns out you have to open Apple Music Preferences, check &ldquo;iTunes Store&rdquo; in a little grid. I didn&rsquo;t deselect this, it came deselected, meaning NOBODY is going to see it.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Product Sucks: Apple Music app on macOS Catalina is &ldquo;not so great&rdquo; This one can&rsquo;t be blamed on Catalyst. Via John Gruber: Music on Mac is just an utter embarrassment for Apple. Truly an ignominious fate for iTunes, which started 20 years ago as an exemplar of a great Mac app. Previously: WWDC 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-04-05T20:58:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"11eb53de-5ed9-4e48-bc72-b8a551e6f028","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-08-13T18:25:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEetT3l7ZTki8crilUebwKA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1230,30,1666,157,1816],"class_list":["post-32062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-music","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-music","tag-music-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33380,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062\/revisions\/33380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}