{"id":41573,"date":"2023-12-27T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41573"},"modified":"2023-12-27T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T22:19:14","slug":"apple-music-replays-broken-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/27\/apple-music-replays-broken-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music Replay’s Broken Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The tile implores you to “Replay and share your year in music.” In tiny text, seemingly indicating shame<\/em> or remorse<\/em>, it says “Go to site”.<\/p>\n

You see, the Apple Music app - and iTunes before it - are largely glorified markup viewers, but for whatever reason, the Music app still can’t display Apple Replay in<\/em> the Apple Music app. Instead the user is shunted off to the web version of the Music app<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Not a big deal, right? Except you have to log in with your Apple ID in your web browser to see the web version of the app you were just in so you can look at text<\/em> and images<\/em> with CSS animation. Does the Music app not pass Acid3? For all the crap Apple, and its fans, level at Electron based apps we’re left with this native app’s sweet solution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, needless to say, the Web page is designed for mobile with sideways carousels.<\/p>\n

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It seems to be like something one could upload to a Stories, or other vertical video product to share, but there are no sharing controls<\/em> in a desktop web browser at all, so you have to go to the site in Safari on iOS, to get a share icon to save a static PNG to send somewhere else. There’s something poetic about failing to do something social well and using the format pronounced “ping”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n