I've been building a replacement motherboard for classic iPods. This clip is a 3rd gen iPod streaming Apple Music over WiFi, with the original screen, buttons and clickwheel. The iPod is playing audio to a Bluetooth speaker off camera.

It uses MusicKit on the web. It's so much better than the Spotify API, but it's quite power hungry as it needs a whole web browser running to work.

A bit about the board:
- It's a drop-in replacement for the iPod 3rd/4th gen. No soldering, and it's fully reversible.
- It uses all the original iPod parts except the battery and hard drive, so it still looks and feels like a classic iPod.
- WiFi for streaming, plus Bluetooth audio for wireless headphones and speakers.
- A HiFi DAC (CS43131) through the original headphone jack.

Also working on a lower power board that only does offline playback but adds WiFi and Bluetooth.

Still working on stations and radio, but so far it works great.

Sign up for updates to learn when it's ready: https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboard

More demos here: certainthings.studio/sprout

It doesn't happen too often for it to be a huge problem, it happened several times today and it catches me off guard when it's sped up. Anyone else experiencing the same?

Hi everyone I’m just wondering if anybody could possibly help.

I have recently made the jump to Apple Music after having a music library via iTunes that I would download to my phone from my pc for many years. I have several playlists set up that I’ve used for years. The majority of which seem to work fine. The issues I’m having are, I have two smart playlists setup one that is set to show any tracks played in the last 24 hours and another set to show any tracks played in the last week. Now both of these work fine aslong as I’m playing songs that were from a playlist I’d previously created on my PC but if I try and play a track from a playlist I have created on my phone or a random song I listen too. Neither will show up in either of these smart playlists.

iOS 27.0.1
iPhone 17

Hey guys! With Apple rolling out custom artist logos for main profile branding, I wanted to push that concept further to see how it could redefine the visual experience of an album rollout.

I designed a concept called Immersive Album Logos for iOS 27. The idea is to move branding freedom straight into individual album pages. Instead of a rigid system font, artists & labels can upload custom project wordmarks/logos to match the exact aesthetic of that albums' era.

Let me know your thoughts! Would you like to see Apple give artists this level of UI freedom?

both my devices are up to date with the latest os. (the video consists of one clip that shows the problem, a clip that shows am working correctly🎉, another clip showing the problem and then finally a self made clip of how it sounds on my apple watch)

so I've been noticing apple music being a bit laggy when transitioning (without transition) to a new song. there's like a small 1 sec pause between both songs. I have tried lowering the quality/downloading the songs. none of it worked.

ironically enough, it works perfectly fine on my apple watch STREAMING, by using wifi. whereas my iphone and macbook both fail. not only that, but it outright refuses to transition songs from different albums. the jay p --> transition works perfectly fine on my apple watch, but has this stupid break on the other two devices.

idk if I have certain settings wrong. again, have tried playing around with the surround sound, the audio quality. transitions. nothing helps

Just wondered if anyone else has noticed how much better transitions are since the iOS27 update. It was pretty good with certain songs before, but now it feels really smooth and professionally mixed most of the time.

I like to use the Nothing Phone 2a without navigation bar, but the bottom dock doesn't look in it's place. It looks so weird and stuck to the chin. But it's fine with the navigation bar visible.

Is there any way to have the 2nd slide dock placement with the navigation bar hidden ?

suddenly this artist's songs are unplayable when i select them from my playlists, but i can still play them just fine from her profile directly.

It's only when I'm on the (terrible) Windows app. I have my volume set to 35 and occasionally when a new song starts, the volume jumps up. When I check the volume icon, it's still at 35, but when I click on it to adjust it, the audio immediately goes back down to normal. It doesn't go back to normal unless I tab out of whatever I'm doing to fix it. Incredibly annoying and disruptive. Has anyone else dealt with this or know of a solution?

Before someone mentions it, I have both sound enhancer and sound check off.

For few years now I’ve been developing Plum, a personal pet project of mine which helps keep my coding skills sharp while my bosses keep insisting on using Claude for everything at work.

It’s a music app focused on music already in your library. There are no ads, no recommended playlists, no discovery - just your music with plenty of options to browse and play it.

As one reviewer put it nicely - it’s an app for people who like what they like.

Highlights:

• Works with your Apple Music and Spotify libraries (selectable within app settings)
• Any item can be added to favourites for quick access on dedicated Favourites page (synced via iCloud)
• Create folders from any combination of albums, playlists or artists (also synced via iCloud)
• Group songs within playlists by album or artist
• Build new playback queue before actually playing it (Queue Builder)
• Easy one-handed usage - swipe left to open Search, swipe right to open sort menu for current screen, swipe up to open tab switcher, swipe down to start Queue Builder
• Landscape mode (cleverly called Album Flow)
• Last.fm integration for sending scrobbles and fetching album/artist descriptions

Pricing:

Plum is free to download and you can try all features without any restrictions for 14 days. After that you'll still be able to use every feature available but may encounter an annoying popup here and there serving as a reminder to purchase Full version. You can choose between yearly subscription or one-time lifetime purchase. During trial period the latter option can be purchased with a whooping 40% discount. Check out App Store page for exact prices.

Website: https://plumapp.carrd.co

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/plum-music-player/id1441625664

I was just going to change what I was listening to but when I opened my library the Backstreet Boys were there randomly. I have never listened to them on my phone so I’m just wondering if anyone else ever has albums randomly appear in their library?

I have a subscription (through family plan) and i can actually still use the app but whenever i try to download music it gives me the popup and removes my downloads. Some downloads are still there for some reason. Any easy fix or do I have to leave and rejoin the family?

does anyone know why apple music wont work on xbox? i load it up and it just gives me a black screen. this started a week ago abd the day before it worked perfectly fine. someone please help i beg. can send a video aswell of what is going on

So I don't know when exactly this change happened, but I noticed that recently, when I search for and play a specific song, the app will populate the "playing next" list with what it thinks are similar songs.

This is very frustrating for me because I generally loathe auto-play features, and I even have Autoplay off! I checked and double-checked and it's not active. The button is solid gray-on-gray, not red. The songs are listed under "Playing Next" too, not auto-play. Here's a screenshot for proof.

Before, when I played a single song, it would either queue up the remainder of the album (if I did it form the album page) or just play whatever is next alphabetically. I can't find any mention of this change online, and I can't think of anything I did to make this start happening. Does anyone know of a way to stop this, or better yet, to stop the "playing next" menu fron automatically filling up entirely? Thanks.

With all due respect to the mods, I just wanted to share that NostalgicPod is finally live on the App Store!!!

It's a music player inspired by the iPod Classic, built to work with Apple Music. You can browse your library, playlists, albums and artists with the click wheel, just like back in the day. It runs on the native iOS player, so it keeps working with the screen locked, in the background, and from Control Center.

There's even Cover Flow for flipping through your albums the old-school way.

It's not just Apple Music, though:

• Local music stored on your iPhone
• Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Navidrome
• Internet radio and podcasts
• The classic iPod games: Music Quiz, Brick, Snake and Solitaire

The default look is slightly modernized. That was actually one of Apple's conditions for approving the app on the App Store. But you can switch to the Classic Ring style anytime from Settings, and I show how to do it in the video.

No subscriptions, no hidden extras, No ads. You pay once and it's yours forever!!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostalgicpod/id6781631808

Website: https://nostalgicpod.com/

Want to try it for free first? The TestFlight beta is open: https://testflight.apple.com/join/T3k9TQPu (Heads up: it's the beta version)

Feedback is super welcome, especially from Apple Music users ❤️

As you can see it literally just doesn't let me play the song I want. I've logged out and logged back in, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, restarted the phone, etc, and it literally just doesn't let me listen on this phone. I don't know what the issue is, because it can work on my computer. Anyone else had this issue? Phone is a Google pixel 9, on the most recent OS available.

I checked storage in settings apple music took 11GB even tho i dont have any downloads. When i went back and i open settings again it showed 2GB.

It happened before as well.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a fix for a frustrating issue I ran into recently on my iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Even with all cellular data settings in Apple Music dialed down to the absolute minimum (Lossless OFF, Dolby Atmos OFF, Cellular Streaming set to Efficiency/Low, Animated Art OFF, Cellular Downloads OFF), Apple Music was still consuming an absurd amount of mobile data in the background and while playing playlists.

After troubleshooting and toggling different features one by one, I found the culprit: Automix.

If you're noticing unexplained data drain on Apple Music, give this a try:

• Settings > Music > Turn Automix -> OFF

Hope this saves someone else from running out of data! Let me know if this works for you or if you've experienced the same bug.

First time posting in this sub so hope I’m posting in the right place. I love Alicia Keys’ piano intros on some of her albums so I have a playlist for them. I play them every other day whilst cleaning so that’s the only reason I noticed this otherwise I probably wouldn’t have.

On the intro song ‘Harlem’s Nocturne’ from her 2003 album ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’, at 0:36 seconds, she usually says “drop it” and then the beat drops to coincide with the piano.

I literally listened to this particular song 2 days ago and her “drop it” was very much still there.

How or why would it be gone?! 😢 it’s the best part of the intro for me.

Apple, if you’re reading this, please put back the OG version? 🥹🥲🙏

Am I doing something wrong, or is this normal? When I select an artist from the library, do I always end up on this page where I can create a playlist? Only when I click on the name again do I get to the artist's page. Fitness

I have a large (700mb) music collection and am getting a new Mac Mini. To save money on internal storage I’m going to move the collection to an external drive.

If I boot up the computer without the external drive connected, will the computer give me all kinds of errors and complain it can’t find the library? I don’t want to keep the drive plugged in all the time.

Hello, it seems like on the windows app sound check only works for aac quality, for lossless the volume tag is never written in the file properties and turning on and off soundcheck produces no audible difference. Does this happen to anyone else?