MacApfel I was referring to what Slurpy said about Connect being a healthy platform already.
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Originally Posted by Slurpy
I predict Connect is going to be a very healthy platform. There's already posts with 15K favorites and 2K comments, not bad for a social network that has JUST launched on a limited set of devices.
Where are there 15K favorites and 2K comments - can you provide some links? The ones I've seen so far have been v. silent.
What a much simpler interface with Apple Music and Connect turned off.
Because then you basically just have an app that just plays music from your library. Perhaps Apple should have split the two but then you get people howling about another app on their iPhone that they can't delete.
Actually I think Apple Music is going to do exceptionally well. Beats 1 is already taking the world by storm.
Apple really needs to simplify the UX with this app. The amount of choice is overwhelming. Clearly when designing this app they didn't think about a thousand noes for every yes.
People made fun of Beats 1 being "old world", but there's no rule that says that just because it's streaming audio, no humans can be involved. Just because it's not being broadcast from a tower, why should that stop people from creating curated programming? The radio format can be a great medium on it's own if done well -- and they're doing it really well.
Connect is awful. Awfull, I dare say, with it's Ping like features. And buggy as hell. I have it on an iPad Air, all software fully updated. It is unstable. Simple links simply don't work
The team that designed and built Connect should be embarrassed
Now how do I remove iTunes Match from Apple Music?? Tried using Match once before and it totally screwed up my entire library.
How could iTunes Match screw up your library when the feature scans your library and determines what songs could be matched and not uploaded, and which ones to upload to Apple? That is all it does.
I predict Connect is going to be a very healthy platform. There's already posts with 15K favorites and 2K comments, not bad for a social network that has JUST launched on a limited set of devices.
I am sure you raved about Ping and claimed that would be a huge success...when it was one of Apple's failures.
Apple really needs to simplify the UX with this app. The amount of choice is overwhelming. Clearly when designing this app they didn't think about a thousand noes for every yes.
I share your feeling. As the saying goes: a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Perhaps it is because the design team wanted to please too many egos?
They need focus and clarity. What they could do is split the app into three interdependent seperate apps.
Connect is awful. Awfull, I dare say, with it's Ping like features. And buggy as hell. I have it on an iPad Air, all software fully updated. It is unstable. Simple links simply don't work
The team that designed and built Connect should be embarrassed
Correct, they are the same people that invented Ping, and the same people that turned iTunes into a fricken' mess with version 11 and 12. The user interface of iTunes 11 and 12 is a joke.
Correct, they are the same people that invented Ping, and the same people that turned iTunes into a fricken' mess with version 11 and 12. The user interface of iTunes 11 and 12 is a joke.
Yes. Concerning iTunes in OSX, it doesn't help to have ...
TV shows,
iPhone apps
iPad apps
Books (tells you to go to iBooks)
iTunes Uni
Podcasts
Tones
and Internet Radio
... in one place.
Now they've added ...
Radio
Connect
... as well.
Again, you could simplify iTunes ...
by moving the iPhone and iPad apps to the App store (perhaps 'Tones' belong there as well?)
by moving Books and iTunes Uni to iBooks (why not rebranding this to 'Apple Books'?)
by moving TV shows and Podcasts to a seperate 'Apple TV' app?
What's left in iTunes are ...
the Library,
iTunes store,
Connect,
Radio
and Internet Radio.
It'd be great to rebrand 'iTunes' in OSX to 'Apple Music', just to be in synch with the naming in iOS? Apple Music (in OSX) can be further simplified with a dedicated Radio app (merging 'Radio' and 'Internet Radio'). 'Connect' ought to be a web app. So, the simplified Apple Music is just the Library and the iTunes Store.
A monthly Apple Music membership would allow you to stream all the songs. In the iTunes store you have the ability to like, listen or buy the song. All in one place. Inside your library you could create playlists with the songs you liked and the purchased songs.
- - - - -
ADDENDUM: Windows and Android users could get their songs/apps/books from their personal account on me.com.
I can't believe after that disaster and all the years that have passed since... that they wound up creating a 2015 version of Ping. Some serious issues here
I hope they are all over this and have a set of features and fixes ready to roll out immediately. Or else Connect is toast
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There is a quite positive article in one of the biggest german newspapers:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/streamingdienst-apple-music-startet-holprig-kann-aber-ueberzeugen-1.2547556
MacApfel I was referring to what Slurpy said about Connect being a healthy platform already.
I predict Connect is going to be a very healthy platform. There's already posts with 15K favorites and 2K comments, not bad for a social network that has JUST launched on a limited set of devices.
Where are there 15K favorites and 2K comments - can you provide some links? The ones I've seen so far have been v. silent.
Because then you basically just have an app that just plays music from your library. Perhaps Apple should have split the two but then you get people howling about another app on their iPhone that they can't delete.
Apple really needs to simplify the UX with this app. The amount of choice is overwhelming. Clearly when designing this app they didn't think about a thousand noes for every yes.
The team that designed and built Connect should be embarrassed
Now how do I remove iTunes Match from Apple Music?? Tried using Match once before and it totally screwed up my entire library.
How could iTunes Match screw up your library when the feature scans your library and determines what songs could be matched and not uploaded, and which ones to upload to Apple? That is all it does.
I predict Connect is going to be a very healthy platform. There's already posts with 15K favorites and 2K comments, not bad for a social network that has JUST launched on a limited set of devices.
I am sure you raved about Ping and claimed that would be a huge success...when it was one of Apple's failures.
Apple really needs to simplify the UX with this app. The amount of choice is overwhelming. Clearly when designing this app they didn't think about a thousand noes for every yes.
I share your feeling. As the saying goes: a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Perhaps it is because the design team wanted to please too many egos?
They need focus and clarity. What they could do is split the app into three interdependent seperate apps.
Where are there 15K favorites and 2K comments - can you provide some links? The ones I've seen so far have been v. silent.
Slurpy makes it all up. None of his posts have any validity to them.
Connect is awful. Awfull, I dare say, with it's Ping like features. And buggy as hell. I have it on an iPad Air, all software fully updated. It is unstable. Simple links simply don't work
The team that designed and built Connect should be embarrassed
Correct, they are the same people that invented Ping, and the same people that turned iTunes into a fricken' mess with version 11 and 12. The user interface of iTunes 11 and 12 is a joke.
Correct, they are the same people that invented Ping, and the same people that turned iTunes into a fricken' mess with version 11 and 12. The user interface of iTunes 11 and 12 is a joke.
Yes. Concerning iTunes in OSX, it doesn't help to have ...
... in one place.
Now they've added ...
... as well.
Again, you could simplify iTunes ...
What's left in iTunes are ...
It'd be great to rebrand 'iTunes' in OSX to 'Apple Music', just to be in synch with the naming in iOS? Apple Music (in OSX) can be further simplified with a dedicated Radio app (merging 'Radio' and 'Internet Radio'). 'Connect' ought to be a web app. So, the simplified Apple Music is just the Library and the iTunes Store.
A monthly Apple Music membership would allow you to stream all the songs. In the iTunes store you have the ability to like, listen or buy the song. All in one place. Inside your library you could create playlists with the songs you liked and the purchased songs.
- - - - -
ADDENDUM: Windows and Android users could get their songs/apps/books from their personal account on me.com.
I can't believe after that disaster and all the years that have passed since... that they wound up creating a 2015 version of Ping. Some serious issues here
I hope they are all over this and have a set of features and fixes ready to roll out immediately. Or else Connect is toast