Having said that, the bad bits are truly dreadful. Needless to say, despite them seeing it first hand (we were screen sharing), nothing was ever done to fix this and I introduced Yate (music metadata app) into my workflow and while that is still invaluable, Music has never failed to update the actual files, so it's not all bad. In fact I first discovered this while on a support call to Apple about something else. I would make some update and iTunes reliably displayed that new modified data, but I would usually find it had NOT written that to the actual file. Music has many appalling flaws, like being unable to find even the most obvious artwork, but at least by correctly configuring it, you can prevent it from repeatedly making the same mistakes and in Music's defence, it has never failed to write field/tag data changes to the actual track files' metadata, whereas iTunes had for some years randomly not done that. Uncheck it and Music no longer keeps making the same mistakes. I have read of a lot of users having trouble with Music repeatedly getting the wrong (or no) artwork etc, but I think it is all controlled by that option. I immediately turned that off and it has never delayed Quitting, nor tried to automatically download in the background anything again (apart from new CDs). So this new one looked like it was causing Music to try and fill in missing artwork and metadata for everything it determined was missing such information - each time you try to Quit. This is NOT the same option as downloading artwork for imported CDs, that has a different checkbox. Without checking the exact wording now, it was something like "Download artwork and metadata for music". However in the meantime I noticed a new checkbox in Music's Prefs. ![]() I then did not quit until I had correct artwork for everything which I assumed would then prevent it from any further artwork mess. It was busy grabbing all the wrong artwork again. So all my previous efforts were wasted and I had to clear everything out again. ![]() I was unable to make it quit and found others having this problem with Music busy and continuing to run after 'Quit'.Įventually it did (hours later), but to my horror, on starting up Music again I found it had once again tried to download all missing artwork, getting it all wrong again. I then tried to quit Music and although it vanished from the screen, it had not quit. can't find the correct artwork so just grab the first 'greatest hits' you can find). However, as I worked through almost 20,000 tracks needing artwork, I first cleared out all the incorrect artwork Music had 'helpfully' downloaded (i.e. A monumentally stupid decision that didn't even work as intended. In fact, I don't think Apple bothered to try and use existing iTunes artwork and relied instead on simply downloading again everything it could find - which turned out to be very little, even latest albums (new this year) from very big artists. Now it's written by mega rich 'software technicians' with no allegiances except to the best salaries, and I don't think they necessarily use the apps they write other than when they're tasked with coding an update.Ĭlick to expand.Trying to bring my iTunes library into Music on Monterey ended up losing about 75% of the artwork. ![]() If customers reported a bug I could picture them voluntarily going outside and flagellating themselves with barbed wire as punishment for their incompetence. Or send a song to a new playlist, and said playlist sometimes doesn't appear until you restart the app.Īnd that's why Neanderthals like me think Apple was better in the 'olden days', when its software was coded by a herd of likeminded Apple-fanboi nerds, coding by candlelight into the wee hours while keeping themselves awake with coffee and cold baked beans straight from the tin. One of the most annoying, when searching either my library or Apple Music, is how sometimes the search box can lose focus after typing literally every character. There are various really, really basic bugs that just never get addressed. I swear the people who write these apps don't actually use them. I was one of the people who actually got along really well with iTunes.
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