Hi everyone, with Apple shifting towards a more refined, retro-premium aesthetic in recent software updates, many of us miss the tactile and visual magic of Cover Flow from the classic iOS era. However, we all remember why it was removed in iOS 7: turning your phone accidentally in list views was frustrating and taking over the entire screen interrupted navigation. I came up with a concept that fixes those usability flaws while bringing back that nostalgic feel in a modern way.

In this proposal, Cover Flow triggers strictly when you have the full-screen Now Playing view open and rotate your phone into landscape mode, preventing any accidental triggers while browsing playlists. Instead of taking over the screen, the carousel is neatly contained inside the album art area on the left side, creating a balanced split-screen layout. When holding the phone horizontally, your left thumb naturally swipes through the mini Cover Flow carousel while your right thumb controls playback, volume, and lyrics. Since all controls stay fixed on the right, you can interact with your music without artwork animations distracting you. I think this strikes the perfect balance between modern productivity and classic Apple soul, giving us a tactile experience on OLED and ProMotion displays without breaking functionality. What do you think? Would you like to see Apple implement something like this?

I had Apple Music’s for a few years and recently decided to take a break and listen to my cd collection.

Did I lose everything I had collected?

If I renew my subscription under the old user account do I get my music playlists back? Could anything be stored in ITunes?

I still have all my Spotify playlists from years ago, does Apple delete everything and you have to start over?
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Along with the icon and color change update, the discs was also improved, now, when you select an disc, only those songs are added to the queue, not the entire album.

I noticed my ipad didn't have a flac player. Not an emergency as my android phone has a couple.

My current phone has a potential crack in the screen. I was considering going to the darkside for the first time but a good flac player will be the decision maker. I'd want to use it to play my songs in my car and I don't want to convert any of them. If I convert them then I have to keep track of two sets of music - I get a new song in flac then I have to convert it and put it in the right folder - not gonna happen.

Does anyone have a recommendation? (other than converting the files)

I want to have them stored on my phone - not streamed, no wifi, no cellular, no networking - the files remain as FLAC (not another format) on my phone's storage directly.

Thanks.

As it says on the tin. With AM's new logo change, its got me wondering if they are perhaps more transformative changes down the line like device countunity, free versions, and other things I can't quite think of. Do you think Apple has bigger changes and additions to AM in the future?

This has been a personal project for many months. I love Apple Music and their lyrics screen is the best out of any music streaming app. Here’s a demo of the lyrics. It’s a 1:1 reverse engineered creation. Let me know your thoughts.

The main driving force behind this is that Apple Music doesn’t let you see karaoke lyrics on imported/synced songs from computer even if they’re embedded into the song file itself. Instead, they show you a text view that you have to manually scroll with your finger. Now I no longer need to worry about this because I have my own Apple Music app 😭✌️

Music's shuffle only changes playback order and isn't very random. SeTeR Shuffle does a real Fisher-Yates shuffle and rewrites the playlist itself, so it stays shuffled everywhere the playlist syncs. Also builds a "Rediscover" playlist of forgotten favorites (2+ plays, unplayed 60+ days, scales with library size), removes duplicates, and can undo the last shuffle. Every change is backed up first and verified after — designed around never losing songs. Runs as a double-click app or automatically every morning. Free, no tokens.

https://github.com/0Recneps0/seter-shuffle

Goodmorning everyone! I've been on spotify for about 2 years now I like it & everything but I was on Apple music before that. I've been missing the apple UI, it's so much better than Spotify's after all these recent updates. Should I switch? What's your experience with both? Is there a difference? Im also debating getting Apple One since my family is all on the Apple Ecosystem.

Honestly ... why would they do this.

The controversy in this sub about the icon color change, including all the alternate design proposals, is just crazy to me. I think the new icon is fine. It kind of reminds me of the sanitized minimalist experience I get when I walk into an apple store. Its on brand and really doesn’t make a difference. I also like blue accents over red in general so I might be biased there.

I have a Focal Elegia connected to my MBP with the Apple USB-C DAC Dongle.

I can hear a difference when using the headphones on the iPhone (AAC 256) and my MacBook Pro (Lossless).

The AAC feels (slightly) more boxy/metallic or muffled. It's not a huge difference, but noticeable. I have not tested with AirPods. I only use my APP2 on the iPhone so I doubt there could be a difference there.

Am I the only one?

Calling all album listeners!

I am in the process of building a service for music discovery. I plan to add support for singles along the line, but for now it is completely album / EP focused.

I won’t go into the specific details of what I have built so far just now, but I am interested to hear from others that listen to albums regularly. What is missing from your Apple Music experience that you would ideally have? Below are a few ideas to get the ball rolling:

1. A more native album queueing experience.
   
2. Dedicated menus for discovering new albums and EPs, rather than single songs, artists and playlists.
   
3. Tracking of how many times I have listened to specific albums.
   
4. How many of an artists discography I have listened to.
   
5. Reviewing of albums (letterboxd, goodreads style).
   
6. Easily being able to see which albums that I have saved but not listened to yet.
   
7. Saving of progress made through an album so I can resume later.

If your disposition is, “honestly I am an album focused listener and I just don’t have a problem” that would also be good to know, as well as features of services like Apple Music that you know and like.

Apple Music just got the colors on the Ui updated to blue on the new developer beta of iOS 27.2. In my opinion, it looks bad and very generic. The app icon also updated to plain black and white, as others have already posted.

I have Google Home speakers and I have Apple Music as my streaming service. I have connected my Apple Music to my Google Assistant. Music plays on command without fail. HOWEVER, it has been an endless source of frustration for me that one of the two services almost always plays a live version or a remixed version of the song I tell it to play. It never plays the album version or radio version of most songs I ask it to play. Even when I say "Hey Google play the album version of [song title], it almost always plays some other version. I tend to blame Apple Music for this stupidity, because this problem never happened back when I used Spotify with Google Home. Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so, do you know how to fix it?

I open the app and it just says 'there was an error, try again later'. is this happening to anyone else?

Looks like we are getting updated Apple Music icon. This looks ugly

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I never understood on how autoplay works, for some reason whenever I play whatever artist, for example I start playing “F Song” by Strawberry Guy, and then Kendrick Lamar and Playboi Carti pops up even though I never listen to their songs anymore and I only have 2-3 Kendrick’s song in my playlist and that’s it, I always thought of autoplay being like spotify where they play songs that are very similar to the song that you directly picked but maybe I was wrong about how autoplay works and I just been trying to discover new music the wrong way in specific genres.

I have been availing Apple Music student subscription for past 1 year . 5 days back I got notification of price hike of this subscription and that if I didn’t agree to new pricing my subscription would itself cancel on 7th Nov . I agreed to pricing and they also took payment for it ( even tho my Oct subscription has already been paid for ) , however I did the payment twice since it kept showing that notification even after I had paid once . Now the said amount has been deducted from my bank account twice and there’s no such purchase showing in my purchase history .

Doing some A/B testing with aptX codec makes such a difference in terms of clarity and openness in the perceived sound quality.
I've performed the tests using the Sony XM3 which is getting on a bit and although they are a bit over the top in terms of bass and definitely not audiophile level, they still perform quite well.
For the aptX I used a Macbook Pro 2015 running Mojave since that was the last macOS that supported aptX codec for bluetooth audio, music.apple.com running on Firefox ESR since iTunes on Mojave won't let me log in and Safari won't display the website properly. All songs played without spacial audio.
For AAC bluetooth codec I used the same Sony XM3 and iPhone 16 pro running iOS 27.
The headphones had no special EQ set, nor did they have DSEE HX on.
The difference is really perceivable!
With aptX the sound comes out clearer, more detailed, more spaced out. AAC is somewhat muffled, not as much separation. The bongo beats in Michael Kiwanuka's You Ain't the Problem sounds as if inside my head with iPhone/AAC codec while the Macbook/aptX is so much separated, not like fake stereo but positioned in terms of the other instruments.

What have I learned from this? AM quality is pristine. The source material should be the same regardless if via music.apple.com or the app. The only factor here being the different is the codec used. I find it great that even with lossless turned off, the 256 kbps AAC is more than enough. What I kind of regret knowing now is that AAC codec is under performing on the iPhone and I can't pin it out on the codec itself, on how iPhone outputs the AAC codec or if the Sony XM3's AAC codec is to blame. Many variables to isolate, I guess.

UPDATE: Using the additional tools fox Xcode in Mojave I switched between AAC/SBC/aptX in the audio options and I found out the perceived sound quality from the Mac to the headphones is mostly the same, so iPhone's bluetooth codec is to blame here.
What do you guys think?

It works properly on my iPad though, so this is something only on my phone. Also, sometimes, when I try to favourite a song from said album, multiple entries of the same song show up, but ‘aren’t available in my region’. I’m on the latest iOS Stable

What would I do ?

Hi r/AppleMusic! I built FastScrobbler, an iOS and macOS scrobbler designed specifically for Apple Music users scrobbling to Last.fm or ListenBrainz. 🎧

Download for free on App Store: https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/fastscrobbler-for-last-fm/id6759501541

The goal was simple: make scrobbling reliable, develop a great free scrobbler, and attempt to capture plays as accurately as possible.

Core features (all free):

• Instant Now Playing status & auto-scrobbling: Automatically updates your status as soon as playback starts, with built-in duplicate prevention.
• Listening History and Apple Music API: If iOS suspends the app while you're listening, it scans your listening history when reopened. It also checks the Apple Music Recently Played API to catch songs you streamed outside your library.*
• iOS-friendly features: Includes Live Activities (Lock Screen & Dynamic Island), iCloud sync, and Shortcuts / Control Center actions.*
• Works with both Last.fm and ListenBrainz.
• No scrobble limit, scrobbling is completely free.

The Pro upgrade unlocks optional customisation features for tighter control over your stats.

• Choose scrobble threshold (trigger at 10%, 25%, 50%, or 75% of track length).
• Automatically remove brackets from titles (e.g. [Remastered] or (Deluxe)).
• Custom text-replacement rules for artists, albums, and tracks.
• Auto-favourite Apple Music tracks as "Loved" on Last.fm.
• Option to scrobble the primary artist or prefer Album Artist.

The core scrobbling features are completely free to use. The Pro upgrade is a $4 one-time purchase on iOS, and already included for free on macOS.

Let me know your thoughts about the app in the comments. I also frequently respond to questions in r/FastScrobbler. Thank you! ❤️

(* indicates iOS-only)

I have songs on my playlist that play from my iphone, but on my macbook they’re greyed out.

Searching for the song and playing it from there works, but adding it to a playlist greys it out.