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Use Apple Music!


Or just keep your music collection local and laugh in disbelief at these Black Mirror-esque problems.

The simple act of listening to music should not require a vast server infrastructure at the other end of the world, under control of a third party, and a working global communications network. The fact that people got used to this kind of nonsense is very, very scary to me.


What is so scary about there being a market for a flat fee service allowing you to listen to any song you want, any time you want?

The act of listening to music doesnt require a vast server infrastructure. Thats why people could still listen to music they had stored offline during the outage.


Apple Music doesn't work most of time, that's why I switched to Spotify.


How can a music app "not work"?


Refuses to play unless restarted. Every single day.

Forgets selected play list from previous day. Every single day.

Sometimes would play to wrong audio output, which would produce the same silence as first problem but restarting/ rebooting wouldn’t fix. Finally I’d realize and switch it back in control panel.




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