halfmac

I do not trust the man. I don't like Zuckerberg's attitude toward privacy. I have been on Facebook since 2009. I have never given my phone number to them. I have never used anything that involves money. I have never paid them anything. I don't use Facebook for connecting to other apps or for logins, they don't need that information.

I do not use it for news, that should be done by legitimate news organizations, that is why they are there. I also use ad blockers. I just use Facebook for staying connected with friends and groups that I like.

I have not taken the bite of buying songs or subscribing to Apple Music. iTunes and Music are just players for me, and it could be better. I have put my CD music collection in my Mac & iPhone. I have 7,754 songs in my iPhone. Some of thees songs are over an hour long as I like to be able to hear an album in it's entirety without Music screwing it up. Music takes up 44.99 GB on my phone and 67.07 GB on my Mac. My music is bought and paid for.

40 years ago, I waited for the 512k Mac in the fall of 1984 and dove in. Been a Mac user ever since and have had a lot of them. I have no desire to change.
Because of the Mac I was able to build a Mac 9500 into a video editing machine in 1995, way ahead of the competition. Back then to rent an edit room was around $100 an hour. The room cost $100,000. Now, I could video edit at home. Work at home? No Problem.
I find it hard to believe that I lived 30 years without one.

To use the volume button for starting and stopping horizontal shooting, the app only allows you only to shoot with phone with the button on the bottom of the phone. The only rotates one way. With the volume button on the top all the information is upside down. Makes it easier to put you finger in the way. (May be because BM is from Australia?)

Apple Music

I have not taken the bite of buying songs or subscribing to Apple Music. The Music App is just a player for me, and it could be better. I have put some of my CD music collection in my Mac & iPhone. I have 7,133 songs in my iPhone. Some of these songs are over an hour long as I like to be able to hear an album in it's entirety without the Music App screwing it up. The Music app is designed for single songs and not albums. Music in my phone takes up 45.13 GB on and 75.36 GB on my Mac. My music is bought and paid for.

Apple is Stealing my Music

Recently, I learned from Apple Support that in order to listen to some of my bought and paid for songs that I have transferred from CD’s, I have to have an Apple Music Account on my iPhone. I do not. Apple Music takes some of the songs from the CD and displays a dialog box that says “This Song Is Not Available in Your Region”. When I look on an iPhone App “iAmzing” the app shows a cloud icon by the song that won’t play. Apple has stolen my song if I can’t play it on my phone. When you buy a song or album, you are given the right to play that song not to own it. Apple has stolen that right to play the song by referencing the Apple Music song.

Apple Support does not advise well

To play the song on the Music App on my iPhone, it want’s me to download it from the Apple Music Cloud. In order to do this I have to have an Apple Music Account. Apple told me that it was the music industry that changed the way they do this and they can not help me. This total false and I could not convince them otherwise. I tied playing Stealy Dan’s song “Aja”, it was referencing Apple Music version and gave me the error message “This Song Is Not Available in Your Region”. Like Stealy Dan is not available in my region in the USA? Their solution was to subscribe to Apple Music.

https://www.guidingtech.com/fix-apple-music-this-song-is-not-available-your-region-error-iphone-ipad/

Check Storage

This made me do some investigating into why this was happening. I did discover that my iPhone was very full storage and that when I had tried to sync my extensive Playlists from my Mac a lot of songs were in the Apple Music cloud. Not once did the Apple technician suggest to check my iPhone storage. So I deleted the offending files and cleared out my music. Now I had lots of GB’s to reload my music from my playlists. Surprise, Surprise, the iPhone still had those offending Apple Music files again.

Fixed?

I have found if I load the music by Albums in stead of Playlists, Apple Music does not substitute my music for theirs and I get all my songs. I have to manually create the playlists on the iPhone. I have never had to do this before. I sure miss iTunes!