"iTunes sucks! Was in a listen to my own collection kinda mood BUT..."
iTunes is cutting off great songs in the middle of them playing.
Hit the shuffle button to let my phone's 10k songs just create the mood for the day. Didn't feel like streaming Tidal. But nooooooooooo... iTunes is messing up the mood.
What's the deal with this? And how do you fix the iTunes-deemed "corrupted" files?
3. "Only did it today because I wanted to listen to what I have saved on my...." In response to Reply # 1
phone instead of the content on Tidal. I mainly stream nowadays but I did just want the vibe from the music I've got saved on my phone.
I wanted a real shuffle of all my music irrespective of genre.
Just know it went from Slum Village's "Jealousy" off of the Fantastic Vol 2 album right into Ellington's and Coltrane's "Take the Coltrane" off of their joint album. Then, it swung into Coltrane's "Naima" before bringing in "Dancewitme" by Maxwell.
Hopefully, when they kill off iTunes and spin it into three separate apps, I'm still able to listen to my own stuff. I dig Tidal when I wanna listen to albums and some of their curated playlists including the recently added Artist Radio station. I also dig it when it plays similar songs to the one I may be listening to. Don't feel like sitting around and creating my own playlists though. It would be nice if they allowed a subscriber to shuffle through all of their songs saved or downloaded in the user's collection.
7. "Dang...that's one thing about Samsung Galaxy I love...it has a freestand..." In response to Reply # 3
player still so that I can easily listen to non-streaming tracks. I'm not sure, but maybe you can use Google Play Music and set it to play downloaded tracks only and it'll read from your internal storage?
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8. "I can't tell...assuming to push people to use their streaming service Ap..." In response to Reply # 5
instead. Def. going to be a weird transition for folks that have relied on iTunes for so many years. These companies are making some very questionable moves with regards to how music is consumed. Google is pushing YouTube Music which is inferior to Google Play Music.
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6. "I have a library I've built playlists in and meticulously edited since 0..." In response to Reply # 1
247,000+ songs, too many memories to walk away. I've tried importing to things like Spotify in the past or some other offshoot Mc alternative a handful of years ago, but either the new app doesn't pull all the metadata, corrupts the artwork, or back to Spotify I'd let it work for an entire day whenever I tried it last and it's only gotten to the Bs or Cs in artists and I just lose patience because it wasn't even looking for the producer (composer), label (grouping) and sample (comments) tags so what's the point?
I guess it helps I have a Mac and I just listen to podcasts on my phone without syncing them to iTunes and don't use the Store, so even as bloated as the library is since my iTunes never has to think about licenses or the cloud or anything it still runs shockingly smooth all things considered.
9. "Yeah, I gave up keeping an organized library years ago. But I still main..." In response to Reply # 6
drive full of tracks that I "own". Again...The fact that Samsung still has a pretty decent stand alone music app on their phones is one of the things that keeps me in their camp. It REALLY came in handy last month too... I did a 10mile race and couldn't get a decent cell phone signal to stream, so I was able to just open the music app and shuffle the 20+GB of music that I keep stored on my microSD card. I was watching a TON of racers using iPhones that were clearly frustrated that they couldn't stream any music.
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11. "are these songs you manually placed on the phone?" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Jun-11-19 10:38 AM by mista k5
or ones that synced however yall iphone/itunes users do?
ive been rocking with my thumbs up auto playlist on google music lately. i swear some songs are ending halfway through. dont know if its local ones or ones that are streaming.
i know goole music does let you play only downloaded and shuffle all songs.
12. "yes..downlaoded cd's to itunes system/phone" In response to Reply # 11
>or one that synced however yall iphone/itunes users do? > >ive been rocking with my thumbs up auto playlist on google >music lately. i swear some songs are ending halfway through. >dont know if its local ones or ones that are streaming. > >i know goole music does let you play only downloaded and >shuffle all songs.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Tue Jun-11-19 10:46 AM
13. "Was just talking about iTunes the other day" In response to Reply # 0
Rarely use it anymore but it has all my archived music.
and it sucks.
Always cutting off songs.
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19. "I pay 5.99 a month for Tidal...." In response to Reply # 17
I love it.. kinda wish they would move the video and podcast content to its own separate things tho...
and I do miss listening to my 5000 mix cd's...
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23. "The number 1 thing I'd look at is if they are like that on the computer" In response to Reply # 0
if they aren't, I'd find a way to delete them manually from the device (on the sync screen). Then turn syncing back on.
Worst case scenario: restore device and resync.
Are you running an iPhone... and if so, what version of iOS? On iOS11 I had some issues with songs getting the "scratches" in mid play. That was corrected in iOS12.
25. "Apple is killing iTunes" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Jun-14-19 12:36 PM by BlakStaar
OKP is a music nerd site so I know there are tons of people here that could never fully commit to Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon Music and Pandora.
We own too much ish that will never be on those apps.
I don't use the iTunes STORE, just the library feature to managed "owned" files. I stopped buying music from iTunes at many, many years ago and I only purchased files there on occassion. Thank God. My go-to for digital music purchases is Google Play and Bandcamp.
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