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Apple Music is a bit rough around the edges in ways that are shifting me back towards keeping my collection offline

- they deleted a bunch of my personal stuff when I subscribed (I’m sure it was somewhere in the T&Cs but ... come on)

- albums and songs appear, disappear and generally get shuffled around a LOT

- they periodically purge my “offline” music on my phone. Usually I only notice this when I have just crossed the border on an international trip. It’s not just some unused stuff because I have no space free (I have PLENTY) - it’s everything

It’s a really frustrating experience, which is Sady increasingly common with Apple these last few years

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last year i went through all my playlists on spotify and counted maybe 30 greyed out tracks that were removed at some point in the last 8 years that ive been using it. not cool

up to that point i was generally happy enough paying for streaming but im slowly starting to move back to offline storage now and plan on just using spotify to discover new music every now and again. ive given over 700 to spotify over the years which seems crazy now and ive recently spent around the same amount on a synology nas to store my music library, but at least the tracks i own wont suddenly disappear

"ive recently spent around the same amount on a synology nas to store my music library, but at least the tracks i own wont suddenly disappear"

I would think twice about that.

I, also, have all of my music on a local fileserver and I would never consider giving iTunes or an iDevice access to that share unless it was mounted read-only.

When I sync my music library (which is made up of files and directories, not "songs and albums") to my laptop, I rsync it over from the filesystem which is mounted read-only.

I don't need my mac to "discover" "music files" on the network and start "helping me" organize them.

You must be great fun at parties. You make music sound about as fun as getting circumcised.

That's not really the fault of Spotify though, that's a rights holders problem. They've added far more songs than they've removed.

This is an inherent risk of using streaming services. Nothing exclusive to spotify.

ah yea, replace "spotify" with streaming services. i just mentioned spotify because its what im using at the moment

My biggest complaint is that albums I have added will occasionally be split, with one or two songs becoming the versions from a “best of” album, leaving two separate albums in my library. This randomly happens to 2-3 albums a month, and my only notification that anything changed is that some random album, often a compilation, shows up in my collection, or I am listening to the album and the songs do not a show up and are skipped.

It is absolutely infuriating that it fails at even keeping track of the songs you have added to your library. That should be one of the most basic features possible.

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