Apple Music is so confused...

[Jason Davies]

Not a request for help, more a chuckle. I have two original Homepods but long ago gave up trying to get Siri to play my music. It would say that a song wasn't in my library even while it was actually playing, for instance. I gave up Apple Music after a brief period on a free trial because it just increased the possibility for confusion. But then it got even worse, completely unusable.

I recently realised that iCloud Match was responsible for quietly swapping my lossless ALAC files for AAC even on the machine I had started them on so turned it off altogether and went back to manual sync of my phone.

I then randomly tried Siri again one day recently for a band ('Archive') of whom I have precisely one song, and that's through iTunes, so didn't seem worth stipulating which one. Instead of playing it, it said there was a problem with Apple Music, but proceeded to play songs by that artist I've never heard before. I asked the Homepod what it was playing and it said nothing was (erm...there's clearly music coming out of you, mate). I used Shazam to follow along and it was indeed playing songs by Archive.

Today I'm listening to random songs by another artist of whom I have a smattering of songs, and it's duly pulling stuff from Apple Music that I've never heard before by her.

I've lost the plot completely with this but find it ironic I'm getting better treatment and results now I've stopped paying for anything at all than all the years I've been paying for various services...

Just don't hope to get a song you actually bought from iTunes specifically...it won't have it, even while it's playing.

Cheers,

Jason

[Stephen Watson]

I agree Jason even though I’ve not had such a demented experience as you. My favourite was when I was driving and I’d ask, e.g., Siri play Revolver by The Beatles. After a quick think it would say “I’m sorry but I can’t find that album in Apple Music, perhaps you would like this instead and would display Revolver by The Beatles! I think it still refused to play it either way. It seems to be a lot better for me now but still manages to surprise me with its idiocy from time to time.

Cheers,

Stephen

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On 21 Jan 2024, at 14:31, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



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[Jason Davies]

On 21 Jan 2024, at 14:47, 'Stephen Watson' via Sussex Mac User Group wrote:

> It seems to be a lot better for me now but still manages to surprise me with its idiocy from time to time.

What confuses me is that the 'hard' bits (recognising which album or song I'm after) has been done, it's old-fashioned databases showing what I have, have access to, and so on that is broken. My computer and phone know this so I can't work out why Siri doesn't...

Cheers,

Jason