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TACD posted:
At least on the 'artist/song radio' type generative playlists, you can see the next couple of songs in the queue.
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Endless Mike posted:iTunes Match still exists, too! It's actually nice and speedy now too. Early on everyone hated it because it was a complete mystery as to when your songs would be available on other devices. Now it syncs just about as fast as your internet connection can upload it. Sometimes it fails but it's pretty rare so you may never notice unless you're managing a bunch of new songs every day.
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Itunes match was a great product. Wasn’t apple doing a replacement for itunes just called “music” or something? I remember hearing it was coming soon to windows. I just use the web app when I’m on a pc listening anyway though..
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# ? Mar 22, 2023 23:44 |
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People love it around here when I poo poo on Spotify and praise Apple Music. Spotify connect is pretty good. It offers true handoff and better multi device control, which airplay2 can’t do. Everywhere else, I think Apple Music provides a lot of benefits. Spotify seems to care less and less about music nowadays, and more about Podcasts/Audiobooks/Social stuff. Spotify has been teasing lossless for 2+ years now with no release in sight, and it will be a paid/premium option. Meanwhile, Apple Music has free Dolby Atmos spatial mastered albums in lossless, which sound amazing on my Sonos Atmos sound system. Another great thing about Apple Music is that the music catalog is bigger. There are tons of live DJ sets and mixes that include tracklistings, like SoundCloud. For me, a streaming service’s catalog size and its sound quality is the most important thing, and Apple Music’s catalog is bigger, and has higher quality lossless and Atmos files. Another great thing about Apple Music is it supports shortcuts and automations, so I can trigger specific playlists to my hue lights using Siri, among other things. Spotify could implement this feature if they wanted to, but they’re too focused on being the next tiktok or whatever. Spotify has been downright horrible at adopting iOS APIs, mostly because they’re suing Apple. Their Apple Watch downloads took years to come out, and it’s not very good. For years, Spotify has refused to update their app to include airplay2 support for those who want it with homepod minis or sonos speakers that support it. For us, AppleOne Family pricing with Music, TV, Arcade, and iCloud was comparable to what we were already paying for Spotify + iCloud storage. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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priznat posted:Itunes match was a great product. They keep promising that Windows will get the iTunes → Music upgrade someday, but TBH the app is still bloated and awful on macOS so don't hold your breath. Did Apple Music ever add the option to let you specify tracks / albums to remain permanently downloaded on your phone? That was another dealbreaker for me, made it impossible to listen to music while travelling (e.g. on a plane or a train in the countryside).
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TACD posted:Did Apple Music ever add the option to let you specify tracks / albums to remain permanently downloaded on your phone? That was another dealbreaker for me, made it impossible to listen to music while travelling (e.g. on a plane or a train in the countryside). Yes, you can pick songs or albums individually, and also playlists (including smart playlists). The main problem with the playlist download, though, is that when a smart playlist updates it doesn't remove the songs that got removed, so if (like me) you have a playlist for 3⭐ songs added in the last 2 months, it balloons over time and you periodically have to delete all downloaded songs and start again.
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# ? Mar 23, 2023 00:43 |
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I ended up dumping all of the main artists and albums I really like into Plex and use PlexAmp on my phone to find and quickly play music I know I like. It’s basically like using an old iPod but with slicker suggestions and whatnot. I use Apple Music for their playlists and exploring new music.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Not strictly iOS focused but - are there any guides out there that give an in-depth look at transferring everything from Google Photos to iCloud Photos? I googled for it, and every "guide" doesn't really go any deeper than "download everything from google and upload it to icloud!"
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Thwomp posted:So I recently did this with my own photos and I'm trying again with my spouse's and I'll just say its a huge pain. Definitely agree on it being a huge pain. As you noted, Google leaves the metadata in the pictures alone, and any metadata changes you made are included in the .json files that are downloaded in the Google Takeout batch. But Apple doesn't know what to do with those, so there are several different options of how to merge that data back into the photos. I ended up using https://metadatafixer.com, which is a paid option that cost like 20 bucks, but also all I had to do was point it to the 29 zip files that Google gave me and it processed them all overnight and left me with nicely organized and tagged folders in the morning. Also, to my surprise, it seems like Apple Photos DOES have the capabilities to merge the .HEIC's and associated .mp4's back into a single Live Photo. Although now that I'm typing it out, I'm realizing that all my tests have been on recent photos, so it's possible that some older ones might not be as seamless. The biggest problem now that I'm dealing with is on Apple Photos. When I first started using Google Photos like 4 years ago, I THOUGHT I switched off Apple Photos backup, but apparently I did not. So like 75% of the photos I downloaded from Google will already be in Apple. And when I did a test of importing the 2023 photos into Apple, it only correctly found and identified like 80% of the duplicates. I'm not sure why it didn't correctly identify some of the duplicates - the photo content, file name, and metadata is exactly the same. The only difference is the file size, because the Google Photo versions are much smaller. This shouldn't even need any "advanced machine learning ai algorithm" detection to detect these, it should be a slam dunk. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to actually trigger Apple Photos to do a "scan library for duplicates" check. It looks like it's just something that happens when your computer is idle, which kinda sucks.
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Apple Music needs native Last.fm support for me. I have a scrobbler on my Mac, but I have to use Marvis on my phone, which doesn't have CarPlay support.
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Alternatively, just leave the poo poo in google photos as is and treat it like another backup. You never know if/when apple photos is gonna gently caress something up.
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101 posted:Apple Music needs native Last.fm support for me. I have a scrobbler on my Mac, but I have to use Marvis on my phone, which doesn't have CarPlay support. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1439731526
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101 posted:Apple Music needs native Last.fm support for me. I have a scrobbler on my Mac, but I have to use Marvis on my phone, which doesn't have CarPlay support. Eavescrobb can do background scrobbling for you MusicHarbor is another great resource for tracking new releases, especially if you have a huge library. Edit: Soor works too. Boris Galerkin posted:Alternatively, just leave the poo poo in google photos as is and treat it like another backup. You never know if/when apple photos is gonna gently caress something up. This is fine, but the copy on Google Photos is going to be compressed unless you pay for storage. I just realized I get 1TB of Adobe Lightroom storage, so I've been backing up my library there recently. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Appreciate the suggestion, but it crashed about 8 times in the 5 minutes I was playing around with it. Refunded Hasn't been updated in 4 years and afaik all third party scrobbling apps have the issue where if you listen to a track more than once between scans then only the latest play is counted. I like the stock Music app and I pay for Apple One anyway, but unless they every add a better API that gets that data reliably or build it in natively, I'm sticking elsewhere :/
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Alright, I'm giving Apple Music another go since everyone seems to rate it so highly. Couple of questions:The Grumbles posted:At least on the 'artist/song radio' type generative playlists, you can see the next couple of songs in the queue. Also, how do I see which artists I've marked as a favourite? This support article says it should be in Listen Now, but I've been scrolling up and down and closing/restarting Music for a few minutes and I just don't have that section? Is it somewhere else now?
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TACD posted:Alright, I'm giving Apple Music another go since everyone seems to rate it so highly. Couple of questions: If you tap on the "up next" button (on web player but looks like this): It will either show the playlist or in a generative one the next track. e: unrelated my biggest beef with apple music these days is how hard it is to clear out what it thinks your favourites are. All it takes is playing a bunch of kids tunes or "lo fi beats for sleeping" and it thinks that is all of your favourite poo poo ever. priznat fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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priznat posted:e: unrelated my biggest beef with apple music these days is how hard it is to clear out what it thinks your favourites are. All it takes is playing a bunch of kids tunes or "lo fi beats for sleeping" and it thinks that is all of your favourite poo poo ever. One good thing about Spotify is that it there's an "Offline Mode" option so anything you play isn't added to your favorites.
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Skeezy posted:One good thing about Spotify is that it there's an "Offline Mode" option so anything you play isn't added to your favorites. I think you're confusing 'Offline' and 'Private session'
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priznat posted:If you tap on the "up next" button (on web player but looks like this):
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101 posted:I think you're confusing 'Offline' and 'Private session' Shoot my bad, yeah that's what I mean.
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I'm in need of the kind of app that it feels like doesn't get made any more, but thought I'd check. There's a few still kicking about on the app store but curious if anyone has a specific recommendation of something particularly good. I need to track how many journeys I have left on a handful of travel cards (there's no proper app or card payment system in this country, so I gotta juggle like 4 cards for the journeys I make a bunch for the best prices). Basically, I just need to have an app that'll show me multiple named items with number counters that I can easily tap to remove 1 from, or interact in some other way to add 10 to. Right now I just have a Notes document with the four cards listed and I'm manually typing in how many journeys I have left on each one any time I travel with it or top it up, but something smoother would be nice. I don't mind paying a few quid if it's slick, but even something as simple as this feels like it would be part of some kind of subscription service. Bonus points if there's an NFC hook that would let me tap the card to my phone to auto-remove 1 from it on the app, but just launching the app via the card with a normal Shortcut is fine, that's what I'm doing crrently to open the Notes app. Question Mark Mound fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Question Mark Mound posted:
Is this not possible with a normal shortcut? You could add a little button or widget on the Home Screen to start a shortcut that adds or removes from a menu of named items. The main thing you want to look into is managing persistence, which you can do by saving and restoring to/from a dictionary in a file (or just lines in files). The Toolbox Pro or Actions apps give you shortcut actions to help with persistence and making menus, but you dont actually need them. NFC should be possible by the automation tab of Shortcuts. If you need more control over NFC, Toolbox Pro can help there too. Finally you can also make a custom home screen widget with Scriptable
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Maybe a knitting/crochet row counter app? I added three “cards” at the bottom, with this one you have to tap into the entry and then + or - the number, but there are so many of these apps you could probably find one closer to what you want.
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DRINK ME posted:Maybe a knitting/crochet row counter app? That this exists at all is breaking my brain right now. Like I’m mad at knitting breaking my brain.
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DRINK ME posted:Maybe a knitting/crochet row counter app? mawarannahr posted:Is this not possible with a normal shortcut? You could add a little button or widget on the Home Screen to start a shortcut that adds or removes from a menu of named items. The main thing you want to look into is managing persistence, which you can do by saving and restoring to/from a dictionary in a file (or just lines in files). Question Mark Mound fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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MacStories has a Shortcuts archive, might be worth taking a look there? https://www.macstories.net/shortcuts/
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I had no idea what Dictionaries were in shortcuts but they’re basically just pretty usable arrays and I’ve got something that does what I need! The app will show all items in the Dictionary file (a title of the card plus the number value of journeys left). Tapping on it removes 1, alerts me to the new value (plus a second warning if 3 or less), then overwrites the file. I have a second shortcut to add 10 but otherwise do the same thing. I’m sure I could do more tinkering to have it accept an input from an NFC scan automation and throw that into the “choose from list” prompt, but for now this is great. Thanks for the advice about using Shortcuts and Dictionary files! I always forget just how useful they can be sometimes. Question Mark Mound fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Congrats. Shortcuts are great and thet make you feel accomplised. I do recommend looking into the Actions abs Toolbox Pro apps, theyre worth the few bucks for quality of lift imo. I've been makin some Posting Tools in Shortcuts... i posted an earlier version of one I wrote to turn a webpage Into BBcode for easy posting. I've since been improving that to handle edge cases better, offer options for posting summaries with Twitter-style article thumbnails, re-host images on Imgur and so on. Ive got a quotesearching shortcut too. If you automate it on a schedule you can get iOS notifications of you've been quoted on forums. I'll share these when the code doesn't look so embarrassing and wont break easily. I also wrote a SAVBB syntax and action group for Drafts Pro. It's way better than Awful.app for writing a longer post (and you wont worry about crashes) My posting is augmented
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I hate JavaScript and dragging shortcut elements so much though. There's an app called Rubyist that can he used to program and make shortcuts, automations, and widgets in Ruby: Seems pretty nice to code: code:
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Yes this seems way easier.
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Apparently the developer of Toolbox Pro, the Shortcuts toolkit app, has just passed away I hope it isn't true, but he did have cancer. https://twitter.com/mralexhay/status/1412871532817309696 The "If Or" action alone is worth the price tag. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/toolbox-pro-for-shortcuts/id1476205977 The only comparable alternative is Actions, which doesn't implement everything (although it has its own unique features). mawarannahr fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Mar 27, 2023 |
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priznat posted:Rdio had the best UI, RIP. It rocked between phone and pc. I use apple music because I’m on the one plan and it’s fine, but definitely lacking in a lot of nice QoL stuff that spotify and even Rdio did better. I know the person who worked on a lot of that rdio UI, he's the guy you would probably recognise when someone mentions google glass
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also why not use tidal for stuff that isn't on Bandcamp
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mawarannahr posted:Apparently the developer of Toolbox Pro, the Shortcuts toolkit all, has just passed away I hope it isn't true, but he did have cancer. Very sad.
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Alright I'm ready to give up. Does anyone have any good pain tracking apps they could recommend? I'm pretty close to just using a spreadsheet.
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xzzy posted:It's actually nice and speedy now too. Early on everyone hated it because it was a complete mystery as to when your songs would be available on other devices. Now it syncs just about as fast as your internet connection can upload it.
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tuyop posted:Alright I'm ready to give up. Does anyone have any good pain tracking apps they could recommend? I'm pretty close to just using a spreadsheet. I use the Heath app to track my meds, what are you looking to do? kri kri fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Mar 28, 2023 |
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Ugh I don’t know why but now the apple music web player won’t log me in and it’s super annoying. I may try a different browser (currently on edge) but this really ticks me off! A little OT but after the music app discussion..
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priznat posted:(currently on edge) you sure are, OP!!
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kri kri posted:I use the Heath app to track my meds, what are you looking to do? I’d like to be able to independently rate pain in different parts of my body. It’d also be good if I could at least add some notes about food, sleep and activity so I can see how those correlate. I just don’t think I’m ever going to see a pain clinic again so I’m trying to be more active in managing it myself.
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