Apple Music 12+

If you're an audiophile, then like me, music is your life. From AM radio, to my mom's 8-tracks, I was always captivated by music. Listening to Outlaw Country while fixing fence with my dad's cow hands, and borrowing my sisters giant headphones to listen to Rubber Ducky, being gleefully crooned by Ernie from Sesame Street. I heard the birth of disco, punk rock, and enjoyed what will one day be known as the best decade of rock n roll (1970's). Now I'm grown, and so are my tastes; like me, my children were raised with music omnipresent. I have diverse influences, and favorites, which I'm happy to have passed onto to my kids- if you're unprejudiced against any genre of music, you can't really stay prejudiced against anything. The joy of music is the greatest uniter of mankind. Now I'm blessed enough to share my greatest love (besides my wife) with my grandchildren. For all of them, Apple Music has been there. It's like magic to me, who spent long hours with my hand on the record button, trying to catch my favorite songs, without a silly DJ getting in the way. I'm glad they don't have to; they get all the music I listened to, along with there's, plus anything we may discover along the way. The family plan is a gift we've all enjoyed- only I don't take it for granted. It's terrific they can. Give the inestimable gift of music- the gift that just keeps on giving.

Apple Music is a great app! It has lots of great features (like collab playlists, year in review, and many many others) that make the listening experience better and cool and interesting ones I would never have even thought I would find so useful. Spatial Audio is great with my Beats with dynamic head tracking. Many previous issues or ideas for improvement I have had previously have been resolved by updates.

The one main issue I have is that when playing long playlists, the music will often glitch/stop playing/skip a song randomly/etc. Also, a very specific issue is with two songs (“I Like It” by Cardi B and “goodnight n go” by Ariana Grande — not sure if it makes a difference or if I am the only one). The song will play until the 15 second mark, then does not play until after the 30 second mark— i.e. the 15-30 second window cannot be played. Not sure if I’m the only one this has happened to, but I am curious as to how this might be fixed for me if so.

Aside from the issues with glitches, Apple Music is the best music streaming app I have ever used, and I use it to play music every day!

I love the app it feels so easy and simple to use but I personally don’t love the new queue feature. I feel like it over complicates things, because the list of songs playing next is already called the queue, so i don’t understand the need for a new one. It can be nice to be able to add songs to the end of the queue without them going to the end of a longer playlist or album, but you could still originally just add them next and re order it yourself. But my main criticism of it is that i cant mix the queue with the songs in the regular queue. If I hit shuffle and a couple songs I want to listen to show up next, but I want to listen to something specific after them, I have to listen to that song next due to the queue feature. I also occasionally want to finish listening to an album or playlist, and then listen to another directly after, but now I have to wait until i reach the last song to add it to the queue, otherwise it will go right before the next song. I can see how others might prefer this feature, but I would love it if you could at least add a way to toggle it on and off in settings, if that was possible the app would definitely be 5 stars for me.