Comment by paul7986 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by paul7986 | Hacker News Reader

I’ve been an unhappy subscriber since it started. Siri commands and Apple Music are essential when driving and thus I’m stuck with it(only use it while driving which is frequently).

After three years it still sucks for me because...

- bloated UX

- try asking Siri to play all your “Recently Added,” songs without creating a new playlist.

- how can I discover new music when driving? I can ask Siri play similar songs to current song playing but what I need is Apple Music to shuffle all my songs and randomly add new/similar songs that compare to my entire and eclectic song playlist.

- there are instances where Apple Music/Siri plays non-copyrighted songs ie. cheesy horrible and lame covers of public domain Xmas songs. Makes me feel ripped off

Spotify is better but totally unsafe to use while driving vs. Crapple Music.

Google Assistant will happily play you Spotify songs on Android. Obviously Apple won't allow integration with third party software on iPhone.

I am happily surprised google assistant not only plays from Spotify but let's you set Spotify as your default music service. No "ask Spotify to play..." just a simple "play..."

I feel like Apple bullies people into inferior experiences.

I’m also stuck with the service due to the hands-free control with Siri. The cheesy/horrible/lame/non-copyrighted songs are awful and made worse by the fact that my kid will ask for nursery rhymes and you never know which version you’ll get because it doesn’t consistently play the same one.

I was thinking it's a business decision. Let's play as much public domain cheesy songs as possible and not have to pay.

Ummm Apple you have so much money and that's because you are so focused on providing the best phone UX. Why aren't you providing the best music streaming svc UX? Boggles my mind!

Asking Siri “Play my recently added songs” worked correctly for me.

Could you create a new smart playlist for ‘Date Added’ is in the last X days and use Siri to play that?

Why do I need to do anything at all? When I open Apple Music I clearly see "Recently Added," yet I cant summon Siri to play all my recently added tracks? Makes no UX sense to me especially since they highlight this when you first open the app.

You don't need to. I was trying to be helpful.

How dare you!

Thank you and pardon if I came off unappreciative. More so it was angst against Apple Music's poor UX.

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