Rant: Apple Music loving ruins music management

[The Murderous Cop]

Apple Music has been giving me a loving struggle as of lately.

Decided I'd try it for 2 months, enabled it, did all the stuff it wanted. Something bothered me though: After that, all my playlists disappeared. Vanished.
I got really pissed off by this, a lot of songs I had were now just gone and I had no way of resorting them. The only thing playlist related that was available were the stuffty "Apple Music Playlists".

I dealt with it for a while, until recently, where I decided to look for a workaround. After several minutes of frustration, I found something about disabling iCloud Music Library. After I turned it off, though, iOS yelled at me saying Apple Music songs would be removed. I don't know why the forget it'd do that, Apple Music isn't iCloud. Reluctantly, I agreed, considering all I had to do was relog into Apple Music.

Plugged my iPhone into iTunes, and noticed "Manually manage music and videos" appeared. This made me really happy, because now I can finally get playlists and stuff again.

That happiness didn't last long.

iTunes THEN said it'd remove all of the tones, music, and everything else non-app or settings related, for absolutely no reason. Why the forget would it do that? This isn't a iPhone on a new computer.

So what Apple's doing, is making trying to manage your music into a loving frustrating nightmare, all because you decided Apple Music was a good idea.

TL;DR Apple made managing music and other stuff frustrating because Apple Music is loving buggy as stuff and everyone else is also complaining about it.
Also, completely unrelated, but streaming stutters on Apple Music. I didn't realize I was using a scratched CD or a CD with soda stains on it.

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[McJob]

What a right load of toss. For years I've trusted iTunes with my playlists only because it's what I've been using forever. Half of my music is untagged or has incorrect information' I use playlists in order to sort and keep my music tracked. Apple Music sounded like a bad idea before, but now it's sounds much worse.

I think I might jump onto the WinAmp or some other playlist management software train soon.

[Comatose]

Okay, so.

1. Apple Music is a streaming service. In order to add streamed songs to your My Music library, you need iCloud Music Library so that iTunes can integrate your streamed music with your owned and downloaded music. You should have received a notice that iCML is required to use Apple Music, and if you didn't read that, you may have been confused. AM requires iCloud, plain and simple.

2. Your playlists were not migrated to iCML because they're on your offline-only library. They must be manually reestablished. There is no workaround.

3. Manual management of your data relates to how your phone syncs to what is on iTunes on your PC. Manual management means that anything you want to be synced must have the checkbox next to it checked, as opposed to all data being migrated to your phone automatically regardless of whether or not you want it.

4. Apple hasn't decided to make music integration a nightmare at all. As far as I am concerned, I was given a fair warning upon upgrading to Apple Music that iCML would require me to remake my playlists, of which I had very few. Perhaps you either tapped through menus too fast, or didn't receive a notification period. I don't know, I'm not you.

5. Do you know how streaming works? If your streams are stuttering, it's a sign that your connection is poor. That's a simple fix.

If you don't like it, then don't use it. But don't blame the service for functions you're not familiar with.

What a right load of toss. For years I've trusted iTunes with my playlists only because it's what I've been using forever. Half of my music is untagged or has incorrect information' I use playlists in order to sort and keep my music tracked. Apple Music sounded like a bad idea before, but now it's sounds much worse.

I think I might jump onto the WinAmp or some other playlist management software train soon.

I'm not sure about your position on streaming, so I won't say anything akin to a recommendation. Seeing as how you're looking at WinAmp, though, I assume you only care about songs that you physically have access to.

EDIT: Also, I don't know why you'd disable iCloud Music Library thinking you'd keep all the music you don't actually own, but whatever.

[McJob]

I'm not sure about your position on streaming, so I won't say anything akin to a recommendation. Seeing as how you're looking at WinAmp, though, I assume you only care about songs that you physically have access to.

I only want to listen to songs I have physical access to. I mostly only listen to music when I'm out and about, and I don't have a data plan or money to pay for that, and WiFi is usually sketchy.

[Comatose]

I only want to listen to songs I have physical access to. I mostly only listen to music when I'm out and about, and I don't have a data plan or money to pay for that, and WiFi is usually sketchy.

Ah, okay, that's fair enough.

[Obliviongate20]

this is why i just use a sansa clip+
i've had it for probably 3 years and it has 4gb

[Ipquarx]

-snip-

None of this however justifies the fact that itunes will literally jump on the chance to force you to erase practically everything on your device for no reason.

Also, foobar2000 is the best music player for pc :)

[Ravencroft·]

Spotify 4 lyfe

[Comatose]

None of this however justifies the fact that itunes will literally jump on the chance to force you to erase practically everything on your device for no reason.

I wasn't forced to delete anything off my phone when I upgraded, and even if I was, there's not much effort involved in re-downloading everything from the Purchased tab.

Spotify 4 lyfe

Got tired of the way it looked, plus portions of my library would randomly disappear because Spotify would lose the rights to songs then not notify me. It got to be a bit annoying.

[espio100]

Apple is stuff in everything it does.
Also dont get spotify because these jews take 20 a month.
Just download your music and put in your phone manually.

[Comatose]

Apple is stuff in everything it does.
Also dont get spotify because these jews take 20 a month.
Just download your music and put in your phone manually.

Uh, okay. I don't know why people are 'jews' for making money, but whatever floats your boat.

[Ravencroft·]

Apple is stuff in everything it does.
Also dont get spotify because these jews take 20 a month.
Just download your music and put in your phone manually.

Thats your opinion and it's a bad opinion.
Spotify is $10 a month, not a lot of money.
No thanks, I'd rather not go back to 2007.

[espio100]

Thats your opinion and it's a bad opinion.
Spotify is $10 a month, not a lot of money.
No thanks, I'd rather not go back to 2007.

I rather give $600 to a hobo than buy an apple device.
Whoops
Oh look, I can do things for free but nah forget that stuff. Take my money!

[The Murderous Cop]

so you'd rather make someone else waste money on drugs than buy a functioning device

[espio100]

so you'd rather make someone else waste money on drugs than buy a functioning device

Yes