Making the most of Apple Music

Dolby said:
I never really got an answer to this question and it was quickly shut down as Apple fans took offence .

I’m using a few streaming services & was wondering how everyone gets the highest resolution from Apple Music?

It seems that Apple makes it more difficult that any other service to use it to the fullest.
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I answered in post #18. You have to go via usb into a dac from either an iphone, ipad or mac...
 
azboob said:
How can I get Apple Music to stop recommending African and South African music? Do I have to change my region?
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God I would love this. I don't hate all local music but there is just way, way too much. Rap, hip-hop and R&B as well when it comes to general browsing as well.

Apple Music has come a long way though. I genuinely think it's the best overall service even if it lags a little behind in a few areas.
 
Bryn said:
God I would love this. I don't hate all local music but there is just way, way too much. Rap, hip-hop and R&B as well when it comes to general browsing as well.

Apple Music has come a long way though. I genuinely think it's the best overall service even if it lags a little behind in a few areas.
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What do you guys mean by “recommended” as I’ve never experienced this.

I only get like for like stuff on auto play and my station.

I’ve seen this thing about Spotify having so much better algorithms and what not what but whenever I’ve tried it can’t say it’s been any different at all.
 
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Migrated to Apple Music from Tidal over a year ago. I used Android phone. Apple music was cheaper than Tidal HiFi tier (for lossless and spatial music) . And I get AppleTV+ which is a winner too. (Sucks that ATV+ still doesn't have an android app)

I can listen to lossless music on mobile or wifi. For spatial, my Sonos home theatre plays it's natively via Sonos App (without needing TV to be on).

With the Apple Music app on ATV, it's nicer though since you can see lyrics and stuff .

I just ignore the browse section to avoid South African music. The listen now section is where all my favourites and recommendations are.

FWIW, I used some web service when migrating from Spotify to Tidal and then to Apple Music over the last few years. Kept most of by favourites and playlists. Also used it to sync to YTM and Amazon Music as I have those subs too. Amazon music is on free tier but sometimes Alexa won't play music from Apple Music and chooses its own service (of course, that music gets played on the associated sonos speaker(s) in the room where Alexa is summoned to play music.
 
azboob said:
How can I get Apple Music to stop recommending African and South African music? Do I have to change my region?
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You have to burn a Springbok jersey, a piece of biltong and an Ouma rusk in front of a picture of Steve Jobs and swear your allegiance to the All Blacks. Siri will then stop recommending you SA music.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
What do you guys mean by “recommended” as I’ve never experienced this.

I only get like for like stuff on auto play and my station.

I’ve seen this thing about Spotify having so much better algorithms and what not what but whenever I’ve tried it can’t say it’s been any different at all.
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The sort of stuff that clogs up the Browse tab. If I check quick mine now, there is a hefty amount of rap, amapiano, R&B, soul/Christian, African, Afrikaans etc. stuff. My interest level is about zero in 99.9% of that and my listening history would reflect that. Apple really should do a better job in how it shuffles its curated sections around. Right now I wonder if it does anything besides geo-based filtering.

My Made For You playlists are generally good, and track-based stations are consistently good too. My personal mix station is okay but the newer Discovery one is god-tier for me.

SauRoNZA said:
I honestly think you guys must be using it wrong or something.
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Most people I know don't seem big on their personal library when it comes to music streaming. For me my library is essential (Spotify trashing their library is why I switched to Apple Music), and it's meticulously maintained. One of the main things I dig about Apple Music is its best-in-class library management.

If you're mostly just browsing for curated playlists and stations, I can see how the lack of personalisation in how things are presented would get extremely irritating.
 
Bryn said:
The sort of stuff that clogs up the Browse tab. If I check quick mine now, there is a hefty amount of rap, amapiano, R&B, soul/Christian, African, Afrikaans etc. stuff. My interest level is about zero in 99.9% of that and my listening history would reflect that. Apple really should do a better job in how it shuffles its curated sections around. Right now I wonder if it does anything besides geo-based filtering.

My Made For You playlists are generally good, and track-based stations are consistently good too. My personal mix station is okay but the newer Discovery one is god-tier for me.


Most people I know don't seem big on their personal library when it comes to music streaming. For me my library is essential (Spotify trashing their library is why I switched to Apple Music), and it's meticulously maintained. One of the main things I dig about Apple Music is its best-in-class library management.

If you're mostly just browsing for curated playlists and stations, I can see how the lack of personalisation in how things are presented would get extremely irritating.
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Browse is exactly that to me…browsing and as generic as humanly possible.

I don’t even think geo-based as I don’t remember it changing when travelling but rather it’s the same for everyone with an SA account and an American account and so on.

Home is where you find curated stuff for your profile/algorithm and that’s entirely curated for me with nothing South African popping up other than the odd Jack Parow which I do listen to.

I haven’t even tried the new Discovery feature because I’m old school and by and large listen to the same stuff I’ve always listened to but the “My Station” mode is my default go to and does introduce me to some new stuff here and there.

The “Made For You” playlists are also curated but tailored to a particular mood or activity.

So yeah basically if you are expecting Browse to offer you a unique experience then you are simply using it wrong, that all lives under Home.

Library is quite important to me as well as I have quite a bit of stuff I’ve uploaded myself that you can’t get from Apple Music or anyone else.
 
themba990 said:
You have to go via usb into a dac from either an iphone, ipad or mac...
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unless you're a sheeple, of course :p
 
TedLasso said:
Migrated to Apple Music from Tidal over a year ago. I used Android phone. Apple music was cheaper than Tidal HiFi tier (for lossless and spatial music) . And I get AppleTV+ which is a winner too. (Sucks that ATV+ still doesn't have an android app)

I can listen to lossless music on mobile or wifi. For spatial, my Sonos home theatre plays it's natively via Sonos App (without needing TV to be on).

With the Apple Music app on ATV, it's nicer though since you can see lyrics and stuff .

I just ignore the browse section to avoid South African music. The listen now section is where all my favourites and recommendations are.

FWIW, I used some web service when migrating from Spotify to Tidal and then to Apple Music over the last few years. Kept most of by favourites and playlists. Also used it to sync to YTM and Amazon Music as I have those subs too. Amazon music is on free tier but sometimes Alexa won't play music from Apple Music and chooses its own service (of course, that music gets played on the associated sonos speaker(s) in the room where Alexa is summoned to play music.
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I’m pretty sure Apple TV+ has an Android app.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Browse is exactly that to me…browsing and as generic as humanly possible.

I don’t even think geo-based as I don’t remember it changing when travelling but rather it’s the same for everyone with an SA account and an American account and so on.

Home is where you find curated stuff for your profile/algorithm and that’s entirely curated for me with nothing South African popping up other than the odd Jack Parow which I do listen to.

I haven’t even tried the new Discovery feature because I’m old school and by and large listen to the same stuff I’ve always listened to but the “My Station” mode is my default go to and does introduce me to some new stuff here and there.

The “Made For You” playlists are also curated but tailored to a particular mood or activity.

So yeah basically if you are expecting Browse to offer you a unique experience then you are simply using it wrong, that all lives under Home.

Library is quite important to me as well as I have quite a bit of stuff I’ve uploaded myself that you can’t get from Apple Music or anyone else.
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What I have found is that my “Made For You” are specifically curated to my tastes while “Stations For You” are mood as well as artist based. In general I think Spotify does a better job regarding playlists but Apple’s For You stuff is pretty close.
 
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