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Everyone complains about the Spotify Podcasts thing but honestly if they added chapter support and the silence trimming thing Overcast/PocketCasts do I’d just use Spotify.
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Dec 19, 2022 22:32
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ManSedan posted:I’ve been using Apple Music since 2016 and I think it’s fine. Yeah it's fine. My only real complaint is the lack of tuning controls for radio stations.
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Dec 19, 2022 22:57
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Airplay sucks rear end as well. I try to send a podcast I’m playing to my HomePod and a good portion of the time it’ll gently caress up by restarting the episode from the beginning, or playing from my phone and the HomePod at the same time, or freezing up for an indeterminate amount of time, or who knows what else.
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Dec 19, 2022 22:59
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Apple Music and Airplay work fine for me, if they certainly have their downfalls. Once again, as always, rip RDio.
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Dec 20, 2022 12:49
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I think my distinction would be that the Apple Music app sucks, but the service is good. The tabs and stuff are too complicated and it never remembers what I was doing last time I was in the app.
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Dec 20, 2022 13:45
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I do have one major gripe on Apple Music. I primarily listen to albums with it, not radio. It’s mostly fine for that , easier search and easy to through my list. If I’m listening to an album, I would rather it just repeat at the end and start playing back through, rather than start playing “similar music.” Apple of course, feels that this must be heresy, and no matter what, refuses to save repeat as my default preference. If someone knows a setting to check, let me know, I haven’t found one yet myself. It’s a first world problem, but man it drives me loving crazy.
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Dec 20, 2022 14:14
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I just wish it would save my position on radio shows. Been really enjoying After School Radio and Time Crisis lately.
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Dec 20, 2022 14:31
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Duckman2008 posted:
There is an toggle for it. If you get to the "playing next" screen there's an infinity icon in there. If it's lit up it will start playing random poo poo after the last song. I'm not sure it's a permanent toggle though. Like I just went to check and it was turned on for me. But maybe it reset with iOS 16 as it's been a while since I checked.. I just know that as of right now when I start a new album it stays disabled so I'm unclear what turned it back on.
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Dec 20, 2022 15:02
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Duckman2008 posted:Once again, as always, rip RDio. Too good for this world.
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Dec 20, 2022 15:15
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Duckman2008 posted:I do have one major gripe on Apple Music. Is there a way to have Apple Music not play a certain track on albums? For example: if I'm listening to The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour it plays thru the whole album but the last track is a strange interview with John and Paul where they briefly talk about certain tracks while clips play in the background. I'd like to skip this because it's dumb and annoying while still playing the rest of the album and moving on to another right after.
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Dec 20, 2022 15:38
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If you queue up an album, it should show the whole upcoming track listing in the queue and you can just delete that one from it. I don't think there's a way to make it do it every time you play the album, though, short of adding the album to your library and deleting that specific track.
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Dec 20, 2022 15:42
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you definitely used to be able to do that on iTunes 
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Dec 20, 2022 17:57
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Tidal offers lossless and spatial content for the same monthly price as Apple Music (& Spotify) without the podcast crap, and pays the most to the artists of all of them. The algorithm is as good as Spotify once it has enough data to work with, but there’s also a ton of great curated playlist content too. It’ll scrape your Last.fm to learn if you let it, and supports scrobbling natively to boot. I don’t think you can tap on the track info, and find a link to every individual credited person’s profile with the others, either? If you like the sound of the beats in a pop star’s song, it’s easy to find more by the same producer right in the app. They even turn a blind eye to logging in with a Python script and pulling DRMless FLACS from your playlists onto a laptop, since the desktop app can’t download files for offline playback yet. I switched five years ago when I hit that arbitrary Spotify 10k liked songs limit & haven’t looked back. An app called SongShift migrated 97% of my playlists and likes from Spotify for $3 as well, so it was a painless process.
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Dec 20, 2022 20:40
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Duckman2008 posted:I do have one major gripe on Apple Music. i want to be able to do album shuffle like i always did with foobar2000
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Dec 21, 2022 00:39
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Neurophonic posted:Tidal offers lossless and spatial content for the same monthly price as Apple Music (& Spotify) without the podcast crap, and pays the most to the artists of all of them.
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Dec 21, 2022 00:58
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Last time I checked in on Tidal the song/artist selection was absolute garbage.
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Dec 21, 2022 03:42
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xzzy posted:There is an toggle for it. If you get to the "playing next" screen there's an infinity icon in there. If it's lit up it will start playing random poo poo after the last song. I always toggled the repeat and it went away. Going to try to un toggle the infinite to see if that works better. Thank you !
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Dec 21, 2022 13:31
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Neurophonic posted:I switched five years ago when I hit that arbitrary Spotify 10k liked songs limit & haven’t looked back. An app called SongShift migrated 97% of my playlists and likes from Spotify for $3 as well, so it was a painless process. Just adding I've used SongShift and recommended it a couple of times now and it's worked wonders. If you're doing a switch like this would definitely suggest it.
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Dec 21, 2022 15:42
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Verizon is offering $800 trade-in on older phones again (in my case, Pixel 5) so I'm finally going to be getting my iPhone soon here. Any recommendations on screen protectors? I am pretty to very clumsy, so recommendations are recommended
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Dec 21, 2022 16:58
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bagmonkey posted:Verizon is offering $800 trade-in on older phones again (in my case, Pixel 5) so I'm finally going to be getting my iPhone soon here. Any recommendations on screen protectors? I am pretty to very clumsy, so recommendations are recommended I like the amFilm ones, cheap and easy to get off Amazon.
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Dec 21, 2022 17:49
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Mr. Fix It posted:i want to be able to do album shuffle like i always did with foobar2000 try https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smart-shuffle/id342320176 or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/marvis-pro/id1447768809. marvis is really good, it's a fully customizable "power user" interface for apple music that exposes a lot of functionality the stock app doesn't have
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Anyone have any decent and clean solutions for charging a bunch of random devices? We've got a bunch of iPhones, a handful of Apple Watches, a couple iPads, and some random micro USB stuff in our family. Right now, the solution is an 10-port Anker USB-A brick sitting in our kitchen with 10 various cables tangled everywhere like a goddamn mess. And now we're starting to get some USB-C devices, and you can't exactly buy a 10-port USB-C brick. Anyone else deal with this? I don't mind having separate USB-A/C power bricks, but the constantly tangled cables drive me batty. I thought about getting some multi-device dock thingy, but that kind of limits what can go where, and also depends on how thick of a case each phone has.
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Dec 21, 2022 18:40
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Anyone have any decent and clean solutions for charging a bunch of random devices? Cable pockets!!! I'm serious!!! get something you can hang near the dock where you can stuff all the actual charging cables when you're not using them. I use one of those hanging shoe storage things - but just for a shitton of usb cables - and its revolutionary. I bet you could find something smaller. Then you just gotta put the fear in everyone to unplug cables once they're done with them. a bit like this 
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Dec 21, 2022 19:20
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My phone and watch are charged on my nightstand so those have their own charger. The kid's iPads and a couple other various devices that take Lightning, USB-C and micro-USB are charged in the office. I have a 5 port USB-A charger and then a handful of these short multi-type charging cables. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HGSVJS1 They don't support fast charging but since these devices are typically plugged in overnight it doesn't matter.
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Dec 21, 2022 20:11
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manwithoutskin posted:Just adding I've used SongShift and recommended it a couple of times now and it's worked wonders. If you're doing a switch like this would definitely suggest it. I prefer soundiiz but they’re both good apps, Brent.
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Dec 21, 2022 20:51
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What's up with my phone randomly turning speaker on during phone calls? I was on a call and not only did the phone noticeably warm up, it randomly turned the speaker on which just muted the call. The speaker icon was unresponsive and it took like ten taps to make it switch off only for it to turn on again suddenly. The phone screen was off during the call as it's supposed to be. E: iPhone SE2, iOS 16.2.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Anyone have any decent and clean solutions for charging a bunch of random devices? There are cables on ebay that have three heads on various combinations. Slow charge only, but fine for overnight. This really only helps with the tangling, if you're pushing 10 devices to charge with different form factors and plugs then there's no silver bullet.
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Dec 22, 2022 00:06
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Neurophonic posted:Tidal offers lossless and spatial content for the same monthly price as Apple Music (& Spotify) without the podcast crap, and pays the most to the artists of all of them. Doesn’t tidal put lossless and spatial behind the extra premium tier at $20/mo?
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MrBond posted:Doesn’t tidal put lossless and spatial behind the extra premium tier at $20/mo? It’s £9.99 per month here in the UK for the Tidal HiFi tier, same price as Spotify Premium. The next tier up, Plus at £19.99, offers MQA Hi-Res (with associated controversy) and also pays out 10% of your subscription directly to the artists you listen to the most each month. A family account for six people has zero checks that you’re at all related, and costs £14.99 for HiFi or £29.99 for all users to have the Plus benefits. I split the latter with several friends, so it’s £5 each. I’ve got way over 20,000 tracks across loads of genres in my library at this point and rarely find a track that’s unavailable compared to the other typical services. I also use it in my day job to let clients pick their own tracks to demo loudspeaker systems and it’s been a long, long time since it didn’t have what they were looking for. There are some obscure things or versions of an album that are better represented on specialist streaming platforms like Qobuz, I guess. It doesn’t have the same remote control functionality as Spotify, but does support Airplay 2, SONOS and the like. A trial is often on offer at £3 for 3 months, so there’s not a lot to lose in giving it a try.
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Going to post this in a few threads since there's a blizzard coming and my sister doesn't have a phone. My dad switched our family plan from AT&T to Xfinity Mobile (Verizon network). 3 of the 4 phones swapped over fine but Xfinity is saying my sister's iPhone 14 Pro Max is incompatible. She paid off the whole phone with AT&T and the phone is now unlocked, but they are saying she has to sell it herself and buy a new one from them. Is there any technical reason this phone is actually incompatible? Long gone are the days of GSM and CDMA, right? It sounds like it's just the IMEI not being in their database? This post about another Verizon network company sounds similar but the solution didn't work for her: https://www.reddit.com/r/Visible/comments/rzby5z/solution_if_your_phone_is_unlocked_and_visible/ Any info would be very appreciated!
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Well first they should be able to tell a specific error with the IMEI number. If it's incompatible technology, or still showing as unlocked, they should get separate error codes for those. Tell whoever the account owner is to call into support and ask to escalate the issue to a specialist that has network tools. No one in retail will be able to solve that and no tier 1 agent is likely to be able to solve it. I don't know if you've already checked this or if it tells specific errors to customers but you can check compatibility on Xfinity's website: https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/byod/compatibility/device?INTCMP=ILC:byod_get-started Your account doesn't have 4 lines then right?
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She used that tool and doesn't think there were codes. We have 4 lines. All have been swapped to Xfinity.
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So (I'm an XM customer and am very familiar with their service) what device is tied to her line then? Is it her actual IMEI and there were soft errors that it was locked at the time of purchase? Is there any chance there is some lag in the IMEI being reported as unlocked? Does your ATT bill need to do some processing? If the IMEI on her Xfinity line is correct, what happens when you try to do self-service activation through the website? If none of that seems to lead to a good path then again, call into care.
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Dec 22, 2022 22:12
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No device is tied to her line with Xfinity now. The phone was unlocked by AT&T and then when they ran into issues with Xfinity they checked the IMEI and said it was incompatible. The store employee didn't check beforehand I think because they said it was probably her first time ever doing it.
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Sounds like you're also dealing with a bit of a game of telephone here. There is a device tied to the line, period, there is no way to check-out a line without one. If you log into the account through the website or the app you will see a device on your sister's line and you will be prompted to activate it, otherwise they hit the error when originally signing up and only added the 3 lines to your account.
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Dec 22, 2022 23:00
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Neurophonic posted:It’s £9.99 per month here in the UK for the Tidal HiFi tier, same price as Spotify Premium. Ah looks like they gate spatial audio at $20 US and not lossless. I wonder if they changed that after apple made it included at the standard price? I could've sworn it used to be different. Spatial audio and MQA definitely don't seem worth a premium. The artist direct payment is an interesting experiment at least.
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The Dave posted:Sounds like you're also dealing with a bit of a game of telephone here. There is a device tied to the line, period, there is no way to check-out a line without one. If you log into the account through the website or the app you will see a device on your sister's line and you will be prompted to activate it, otherwise they hit the error when originally signing up and only added the 3 lines to your account. Looked at the lines and devices and her iPhone 14 Pro Max is linked to her line. It lists the IMEI that the compatibility check says is incompatible. In the store they were having problems setting up the eSIM. There's an error on her line's page that says "SIM card transferred" and under SIM details that it links to it lists her phone as "Device associated with her SIM card" but there's another box that says "Device using her SIM card" and there's a different IMEI listed there. Edit: just looked up that second IMEI online and it's a regular iPhone 14. Maybe the store employee added a regular 14 and now they're trying to find a regular 14 with her IMEI which it won't match because she has the Pro Max? KingKapalone fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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Oof that is beyond my knowledge but sounds a little frightening. So is there a random IMEI using her phone number? Does her old phone on ATT work at all? (I would assume not if a port went through.) What happens when you call her number? Definitely something that is only solveable by a high-tier agent or a cellular network specific specialist. You can try engaging through the app on Xfinity's website but it can often take up a lot of time.
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We're off at&t. Calling her number goes straight to an un-setup voicemail. Same voicemail message my parents have if they miss my call.
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