I know what I enjoy, it's on my phone and there's no more cycling through endless playlists and recommendations. I likely should have been listening to and managing music this way all along and there's a refreshing clarity to knowing exactly what's in your finite collection and what you actually want to be in that collection. I no longer have to maintain a smart playlist to track what falls out of Apple's catalog either.
#Spotify playlist deduplicator update#
I can update metadata and there's no streaming hiccups when Apple Music mysteriously pulls a track off my phone. I downloaded the trial, imported my music, let Dropbox backup ~/Music, signed out of Apple Music and deleted the app. I took a brief look around, knowing that I already owned the vast majority of music I was actually invested in and found Doppler. My music collection, for all intents and purposes, was broken in Apple Music. It's still disappointing to see the service fall on its face so spectacularly. I would venture to guess that my usage lives in what would be considered an outlier or edge case, I get that.
I imagine that's tough to sync and I imagine matching imported music helps with deduplication and performance. I had a pretty large library, I tweaked the data and imported external data. I gave it a second try, it worked for a while exactly how I'd liked - as a cloud locker with a supplemental catalog of music I was less invested in - and then it hit a wall. So, here I am: I've had swapped a phone after the service launched and cooked the battery. Notice that these duplicates can't be deleted. Notice that I still can't update metadata and Apple fingerprints your tracks, tries to overwrite the metadata and creates duplicate tracks if there's the slightest mismatch.My next steps were pretty standard, escalating, troubleshooting: I try deleting the same albums from the iOS app and it works briefly before they reappeared. Fast forward to the next day - I sit down, scroll through Recently Added to queue up something new and everything is right back to where it was. I go back and notice the tags are all back to Apple's defaults (no big deal, this happens occasionally) and proceed to delete the albums I don't like. I've been doing this for a few years now and all was well and good as my music collection grew.Ī few weeks ago I read through a Brooklyn Vegan on the best hardcore releases of 2021, added a few to my collection, tagged them and queued them. Apple Music is the only streaming service that supports importing your own music to supplement their catalog while also editing their metadata to match. I'm the kind of music nerd that likes to meticulously manage genre tags, trim extraneous strings out of track and album names and update album artwork.
It ended up overheating my phone battery to the point it could no longer hold a charge. Adding an album to your library was unreliable and tracks would get duplicated if you tried a second time. This isn't the first issue I've had with the service nor is it the most severe - I gave Apple Music a try right after it launched, remnants of Beats Music and all. Last week my Apple Music collection, in as far as I can tell, become corrupted or otherwise unmanageable.
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