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Apple Music has had an excellent web app for a while


Excellent is something I haven’t heard anyone say about Music App related things, ever.


Genuinely curious, what do most people say about it? I use Apple Music near daily and I’m pretty satisfied


I use it too...but it's a really poor app. Search is incredibly slow and clunky, discovery is nonexistant, they've still got the same shuffle logic bugs they had in iTunes, etc.

The most annoying part is they CDN from California for UK/EU users. Start playing something not downloaded, hit skip a couple of times and enjoy 10 seconds of buffering.


Oh that’s what it is. That’s why I unsubscribed there’s a lag playing anything.


Woah, that’s bad. I live on the same coast so I’ve never experienced that. They’ve gotten better at discovery, but it’s far from what Spotify has.


The Apple Music web app is so terrible it made me doubt the engineering ability of the whole company. Can't sort collections, can't edit playlists, songs randomly getting skipped, etc. etc. It was like they actively hated the users and wanted to punish them for using the web app.


I just wish that Apple Music Classical would get a web app. That's the only reason why I'm paying $12 per month. Although I suppose most of the classical pieces are available on regular Apple Music as well...


Is it better than the native Apple Music?


Not really, I haven’t noticed much of a difference to begin with. I only use the web app sparingly




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