Issuez with Apple Music.

[elagache]

Dear WeatherCat audiophiles, . . . .

Unlike Steve, Blick, and WeatherCat early adopters of Apple Software updates . . . I did my usual quiet and listening for da' screams! . . . .

No computers melted down, iPhones exploded, or stuff like that but MacIntouch had a fairly serious warning about using a critical feature of Apple Music:

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/apple_music/index.html#d02jul2015

This snippet referred to this article that was quite alarming:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8877129/apple-music-icloud-problems

Potentially the greatest strength of Apple Music is to find new music based on the music you have already purchased and have incorporated into iTunes.  Alas, the only way to give access to Apple Music to your existing library is to turn on iCloud Music Library.  That shouldn't be risky - should it?

Alas, to quote the article:  "iTunes Match has been one of Apple's more flawed cloud services for a few years now. Ever since it rolled out, users have complained about several key things. For one, it's just not very good at the matching process. . . . . A day after Apple Music's launch, people are already reporting that iCloud and iTunes have brought chaos to their music collections with incorrect album artwork and duplicated songs. There?s already a lengthy Apple support forum thread on the problems."  Here is a link to the Apple Support Forum and indeed there are lots of very unhappy campers:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7104745

So summarize the article (and my feelings at the moment) "As I alluded to earlier, this approach kills the potential of Apple Music for me. If you're unwilling to trust iCloud, you don't get the full feature set."

If you are a long-time Mac user like me, this is another extremely serious failure of Apple to produce a quality product.  Worse still, there is clearly hints that some of this isn't merely incompetence, but corporate shady deals at the expense of the Apple faithful.

It is heartbreaking to see Apple changing itself like this.  The 1984 Apple commercial need to be updated, with Apple as one of the villains

Oh well, . . . . Edouard

[jace]

I was fed up reading upgrade messages from the App store so succumbed to peer pressure and downloaded the iTunes upgrade last evening. (saturday evening now Sunday morning).

Eventually, upgrade downloaded and installed and Mac mini rebooted, but what's this ? A WeatherCat trial version expired error message. This cannot be I paid for my upgrade to version II many moons ago and was running Version 2.1 Build 1306 with no problems since it's release. Tried opening and running da 'cat a couple more times, no joy.

So deleted Weathercat.app and downloaded and ran a fresh copy of V 2.1, same problem. Trial version expired, so da 'cat shuts down before I can enter a valid registration code.

Ended up having to reinstall the original of version II so that WCat accepted I had a paid copy, then checked the files were ok, all were except for this months NOAA report as it had doubled the rainfall total for yesterday (4th), so had to download and install ver 2.10 to fix the NOAA bug, corrected the wrong daily total in the rain editor and that seems to have sorted the erroneous total in the NOAA report.

What a palaver ! Over two hours gone just to get the 'cat running again.....

After all that I'll probably never use Apple music 

JC

[Blicj11]

Sorry to hear about your agony Jace.

I had a seamless upgrade but I am not interested in Apple Music. I'm too old to get excited about streaming music via a subscription. I believe in the old fashioned concept of owning, so I purchase my music and then make everyone who comes to my house listen to it. And I'm pretty good at finding music based on what I like without having Apple make suggestions to me. After all, I am considered to be the premier world expert on my own opinion, exceeded in that capacity only by my spouse of 40 years.

[elagache]

Dear JC, Blick, and WeatherCat musicologists, . . .

I was fed up reading upgrade messages from the App store so succumbed to peer pressure and downloaded the iTunes upgrade last evening. (saturday evening now Sunday morning).

. . . . . . .

What a palaver ! Over two hours gone just to get the 'cat running again.....

After all that I'll probably never use Apple music 

My sympathies as well.  I sure get the feeling that Apple is starting to do the same sort of sloppy shortcuts that Microsoft was notorious for.  Apple's software ecosystem has become much more complicated so the work of keeping everything running smoothly has grown exponentially. To compensate, Apple seems to be intentionally compromising quality in order to keep up.

I had a seamless upgrade but I am not interested in Apple Music. I'm too old to get excited about streaming music via a subscription. I believe in the old fashioned concept of owning, so I purchase my music and then make everyone who comes to my house listen to it. And I'm pretty good at finding music based on what I like without having Apple make suggestions to me. After all, I am considered to be the premier world expert on my own opinion, exceeded in that capacity only by my spouse of 40 years.

I also am a firm believer in owning my own music, but I guess I differ with you in that I am expanding my musical tastes all the time and I have technology like Pandora to thank for that.  I have vastly expanded the range of jazz music I listen to and have discovered unexpected music like instrumental bluegrass and American finger style solo guitar.  So I did have some hope that I could take advantage of Apple's ability to simply take a existing playlist and find me new music that was similar.  However, I'm definitely not going to take any risk with my carefully crafted musical investment in order to get additional recommendations.

Cheers, Edouard

[xairbusdriver]

The only thing I use iTunes for is to backup/upgrade my iDevices and add an occasional book/PDF to the various reader apps. Are you now trying to tell me it also can play music!