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How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-one-button dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Early adopters of Apple Music are warning others they could get more than they bargained for if they intend to download tracks for offline listening. Since Apple Music is primarily a streaming service, this functionality necessitates turning on iCloud Music for syncing purposes. The way Apple syncs files is to scan your library for known music files, and if it finds one, the service gives your account access to Apple's canonical copy. Unfortunately, this wipes out any custom edits you made to the file's metadata. For those who have put a lot of time into customizing their library, this can do a lot of damage to their organizational system. Apple's efforts to simplify and streamline the process have once again left advanced users with a difficult decision to make.

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  1. Re:Advanced users do not use Apple products by rasmusbr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you use Apple products you are not an advanced user. It is as easy as that.

    Wow, I guess that means that more than half of all advanced computer users that I encounter in my day to day life must have machined their own custom laptops to look just like Macbooks!

    No, but seriously, many advance users do not care to have advanced control over their music library.

    Many advanced users unwittingly had Itunes destroy their music organization about a decade ago when they switched from Winamp to Itunes. They swore about it for a while, then accepted that Apple controls their music folder now and that having advanced control over your music organization is nice, but not essential. If we turn off our RDF deflectors temporarily we might even think of it as a feature. Remember what a time sink music file organization used to be.

  2. Re:iOS is toys, OS X is Unix. Learn the difference by brantondaveperson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    finder not having a cut function,

    Cmd+C Cmd+Option+V

    The edit menu even changes its contents if you hold option down while it's visible.

    or a keyboard shortcut to rename files

    Press 'return' to rename files.

    and there's no equivalent to alt-f4 either.

    Cmd-Q

    It's by far the worst user interface I've ever used

    Maybe you should take the trouble to learn it?