r/AppleMusic

Back then, the DJs and hosts actually made it feel curated. You had real personalities, transitions, commentary, stories behind tracks, artist interviews, themed sets, and proper pacing. It felt like listening to radio.

Now a lot of the stations just feel like glorified autoplay playlists with a random voice clip every few songs. The flow feels sloppy too genre jumps, weird energy shifts, repetitive recommendations, and less human touch overall.

Feels like Apple Music quietly shifted from ‘hosted radio experience’ to algorithm-first streaming.

I miss when stations actually had identity instead of sounding like shuffled recommendations with branding slapped on top.

Did Apple reduce live hosts/DJs, or am I just using the wrong stations now?

Too often, when I’m listening to a playlist and the songs have shuffled perfectly and a vibe has been found, I’ll accidentally click on a random song while scrolling Apple Music (we exist!), and lose the shuffle. I know my exact situation is unique, but “losing the shuffle” is universal. So I’d love for Apple to implement a feature where I can pick up where I left off on whatever playlist in the exact order I was listening to it. Is this wizardry already possible? If not, Apple please take note!

This just came up in my music rotation and I am absolutely floored. It’s one thing to make your own songs with AI, but to rip off another artist and present as your own is beyond terrible.

So I need help. Apple Music plays what it wants after I search a song and it’s doing my head in. I know there’s an infinity button (not enabled) and it continues to play stuff I don’t want. Let’s just say I search a specific song, that’s all I want to hear right now. Apple Music plays it, then plays something random after like it’s trying to be a DJ for me. How do I turn this off? It happens on my phone, iPad, HomePods and in my Model 3. Someone must have an answer. Thank you.

Hey y'all,

A while ago, I bought all of Garth Brooks' music and burned it onto my MacBook, onto Apple Music. I just got a new phone and tried to transfer his music to my new phone, but there is literally nothing in my library!! what!!

I do not use Apple Music or have a subscription. I am a Spotify guy all the way, only using Apple Music for Garth Brooks.

Anybody have any idea what's going on? Please help!

I know everyone talks about Spotify's algorithm, but I've been listening to Apple Music Chill radio lately and something about it just hits different.

Spotify is great at recommending music you already kind of like. It knows your taste and stays in that lane. Safe, comfortable, predictable.

Apple Music Chill just throws stuff at you. Stuff you wouldn't pick yourself. And somehow it works? I've discovered more music I actually love through that one station than through years of Spotify Discover Weekly.

The playlist is bold in a way algorithmic recommendations never are. Feels more like a human picked it.

Anyone else notice this or is it just me?

Apologies if this has been asked, but I haven't found my specific scenario.

On my iPhone 15 Pro iOS 26.5, I want to stop AM completely and clear the queue completely. Basically, I want AM to act like an empty CD player until I put a CD in and press play. And when a song/album/playlist reaches the end, I want it to clear out. I don't want it to still be there, waiting for a bluetooth device to grab it and start playing. Is any of that possible?

On a side-note, I've tried the Clear Apple Music Queue shortcut, but it doesn't seem to do anything--maybe it's broken on 26.5?

I recently bought AirPods pro 3 on discount, also adding it into account that I would get 3 months of free Apple Music. One of my family members recently bought a new iPhone and I had to sign in his account on my iphone to check iCloud (he is 70 years old so..), there I saw he also had the offer for free Apple Music for 3 months, I activated it for him and logged out of his account. Then I saw my offer was also gone. I don’t know if this is a scam prevention method or a bug but it did piss me off a lot, not because I yearn for 3 months of free apple music but because I feel scammed and I don’t want to have a call with apple to merely tell all this. I want to try my AirPods pro 3 with apple music but hell no, I’m not going to pay for apple music to feel myself 2x scammed.

I'm sick of messing with wrong song/album artwork and my ripped songs (even when matched or uploaded) not counting toward the AM algorithms for better recommendations.

So what's the best way to start with a clean library of my current songs without uploading or matching? I've tried creating a playlist of all of my songs, creating a new music library.musiclibrary, then when I "Library>Input Playlist" it can't do it since I don't have the songs in my library .. sigh.

any suggestions/comments would be appreciated!

I’m a subscriber to Apple One. And therefore Apple Music has become my streaming platform (although I think I have some Amazon streaming from a prime account but don’t use). I also have a (very) large collection of tracks ripped from my CD collection on a synology NAS. Whilst I listen at home via a Hi-Fi streamer most of my listening is via iPhone or iPad.

Ideally I’d like to be able to do the following on my phone/pad

1. Stream things I don’t have via Apple Music
   2.Stream things I do have from my NAS
2. Scrobble/add tracks listened to Listenbrainz or just have my own record created
3. Be able to airplay/chrome cast to my streamer
4. Rate my music
5. Download for offline listening

That is the priority order with 1 & 2 being equal.

My question is whether there is any kind of App or combination of apps that would allow me to do this easily. I’m thinking not but it is worth an ask.

Before Apple Music iTunes would allow volume adjustment per track. It somehow does still work but only for the iPhone and iPad. It doesn’t save the volume adjustment on the Mac nor the HomePod.

Apple support specialist told me on the phone this is normal behavior because the HomePod and the Mac have its own volume control. That explanation makes no sense whatsoever and I was even told that it will never work like it used to.

Does this make any sense to anyone else?

Every time I get in the car and my iPhone connects to the stereo via Bluetooth, my Apple Music starts playing automatically, as expected. But, it puts the queue on repeat every damn time, and it’s doing my box in. I turn Repeat off when I get out of the car, I leave it off, I never have it on when I’m using Apple Music at any other time, but when I get in the car, repeat comes back on.

I’ve searched for an answer, I got nothing other than ‘music plays automatically when it connects to the car’ which is not my problem, I don’t care about that, that I expect. And I understand it could just be my car, which I may enquire in another subreddit about. But I was just wondering if any lovely knowledgeable people here may have a solution to my problem, and thank you in advance if you do.

And for moderation; Region is UK, Device is iPhone, Model is 17 Pro Max, OS is iOS 26.5, App Version I couldn’t find, but whichever is most up to date on May 19th, 26', and in regards of troubleshooting I have done so far, nought because I am out of ideas.

Hi wonderful people,
I did a dumb thing this evening. I synced my iPhone with iTunes on my laptop for the first time in years and it messed everything up. I decided to rip a CD and add a track that I would have had to buy the whole album again to listen to and I wanted it on my phone so I ended up synching my phone.
A lot of my album art is now messed up and I’m really nervous to delete the music app and re download it to see if that fixes it. If anyone has any suggestions I would be so grateful
Thanks in advance!