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GeorgeBMac said:

ihatescreennames said:

GeorgeBMac said:

tallest skil said:

If you’re really not in it for the money, HOW ABOUT YOU LET VOICE CONTROLS ON THE HOMEPOD CONTROL AN ITUNES LIBRARY OF MUSIC RATHER THAN JUST APPLE MUSIC, THEN.

That’s $350 they’re never going to see from me (hell, I was going to get two of them), because I’m not using streaming services. Ever. Local content, only and always. Fix the HomePod, Apple.

Even when you do migrate your iTunes library into Apple Music, the songs are replaced with Apple's versions -- yeh, it's the same song and same artist, but a different version.   I have older songs in my library that got replaced with remakes from 30 years later -- totally different.   And, if Apple doesn't have that particular song in its library, it then disappears from yours.

What you’re referring to is the matching functionality built into Apple Music. As far as I can tell, AM attempts to match songs by name and length, which sometimes means a song you have can be matched incorrectly. If you subscribe to iTunes Match that won’t happen. 

I ran into that problem a few years ago. I have a bunch of “custom” songs in my iTunes library. As an example, I may have a song where the song starts normally through the first verse and chorus, then starts again from the beginning and plays through to the end. I have a version of Praise You by Fatboy Slim that falls into a category like that. It is essential I have that specific version. But AM “matched” the version I have to a very different remix of that song that was unusable for my needs, but had the same title and almost the same length. 

Switching to iTunes Match solves that. The version I have has been uploaded and is the one I get when I need it. 

I'm not sure I get that:   "iTunes Match", by its very name suggests that they match your particular version of a song to something in their library --- which means that you get back what's in their library rather than yours.

I just want my own library back with its own version of the songs and the genre's that I assigned them to.

Yes, iTunes Match matches the exact songs or uploads yours if there isn’t an exact match. Apple Music doesn’t do that, it just finds a close match

GeorgeBMac said:

tallest skil said:

If you’re really not in it for the money, HOW ABOUT YOU LET VOICE CONTROLS ON THE HOMEPOD CONTROL AN ITUNES LIBRARY OF MUSIC RATHER THAN JUST APPLE MUSIC, THEN.

That’s $350 they’re never going to see from me (hell, I was going to get two of them), because I’m not using streaming services. Ever. Local content, only and always. Fix the HomePod, Apple.

Even when you do migrate your iTunes library into Apple Music, the songs are replaced with Apple's versions -- yeh, it's the same song and same artist, but a different version.   I have older songs in my library that got replaced with remakes from 30 years later -- totally different.   And, if Apple doesn't have that particular song in its library, it then disappears from yours.

What you’re referring to is the matching functionality built into Apple Music. As far as I can tell, AM attempts to match songs by name and length, which sometimes means a song you have can be matched incorrectly. If you subscribe to iTunes Match that won’t happen. 

I ran into that problem a few years ago. I have a bunch of “custom” songs in my iTunes library. As an example, I may have a song where the song starts normally through the first verse and chorus, then starts again from the beginning and plays through to the end. I have a version of Praise You by Fatboy Slim that falls into a category like that. It is essential I have that specific version. But AM “matched” the version I have to a very different remix of that song that was unusable for my needs, but had the same title and almost the same length. 

Switching to iTunes Match solves that. The version I have has been uploaded and is the one I get when I need it. 

seanismorris said:

The directions were “turn East at the upcoming intersection”... etc.

I use Apple Maps all the time. Now that I have a 2 year old who likes to learn street names we even use the spoken navigation to go places we know how to get to just so the street names will be spoken. My 2 year old hears the name of the road and then repeats it (over and over). 

I’ve never been told to turn to a point in the compass. It’s alwasy “turn left” or “turn right”. Sometimes, when it’s appropriate, it will be “turn right onto Route 95 North” but not once has it said, “turn north”. Even when I’m “off-road” the directions are “proceed to the highlighted route”,  not “proceed north to the highlighted route”. 

auxio said:

dougd said:

Why do you need messages in iCloud?

So I don't have to delete the same message on every device which picks up my messages.

That and it will sync messages on a device that was off/not connected when the message came in.  That’s what I found most frustrating, that I would be on my iPad and trying to continue a thread I had started on my phone but since the iPad had been off it missed a lot of the back and forth.

AppleInsider said:

To enable one of the new languages, simply go into the Home app, select a HomePod, tap Details, then Language. There are now six language options for HomePod users. Apple on its regional webpage serving Canada says support for French Canadian will be included in a software update by year's end.

Unfortunately for me, it’s not so simple.  “Why?”, you may ask. I’ll tell you why. Because my Home app doesn’t work.  I’ve been dealing with AppleCare literally for months now and continually being told my issue will be resolved with “an update”.  So far I’ve gone through 3 (at least) updates with not changes for the better and today it actually got worse.  I can’t use HomeKit, I can’t add accessories to Home or do anything with it.  It’s literally a useless app for me right now.  But the only way to access settings for the HomePod is via the Home app, where my HomePod isn’t listed.

So, great new HomePod features that I can’t take advantage of because of the stupid, mostly unrelated Home app.