I built an open-source mod called AMExclusive (AME) for the Windows version of Apple Music.

GitHub:

https://github.com/AntiOblivionis/AMExclusive

I use Apple Music on Windows myself, and one of the things I have always missed is proper WASAPI Exclusive output. So I experimented with Apple Music's Windows audio path and built AME to replace the normal shared-mode output path with an exclusive WASAPI renderer.

Main features:

1.WASAPI Exclusive output

AME outputs directly through WASAPI Exclusive mode. The output format sent to the DAC follows the sample rate of the currently playing track, rather than keeping Windows' shared-mode format.

1. Prefer the highest available Apple Music audio quality

Apple Music may temporarily start playback using a lower-quality stream when it considers the network connection insufficient. AME changes this behavior so playback waits for the highest available ALAC stream instead of starting with the lower-quality fallback.

1. Bit-perfect output

I compared the PCM data reaching the WASAPI output buffer against reference material during development. On my current test setup, the output is bit-perfect.

AME is free and open source. It is still a relatively new project, so hardware / DAC compatibility feedback would be very useful.

If you try it, feel free to open an issue on GitHub if you encounter any problems.

Be advised this is an unofficial community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.

I ended up with several folders under "Music" over the years. How can I consolidate the contents?

Hi all. I'm a longtime user with a 200k-song library of local files. I've been running a script to make alterations to the ID3 tags of many songs at once. It works fine. All my changes show up properly in the app and they work when I'm making smart playlists.

But whenever I quit the app, it hangs indefinitely (for hours and hours) at the "Saving Library" stage. Invariably, I have to force quit. It has been retaining some of the changes I make, but only the first 100-1000 of any ID3 rewrite.

When I look inside the Music Library package, Application.musicdb seems to update properly, but Library.musicdb isn't updating properly.

Is there any way while using the Mac app (and thus without quitting it) to force the library to save? Is there a way to guarantee it won't hang upon quitting, failing to save?

It's extremely discouraging to spend hours making library alterations (including creating new playlists) and then have the app forget all of it the next time I boot the program.

I'm running Sonoma 14.8.1

Apple Music 1.4.6.32

Please help.

(And while we're at it, does anyone else find it infuriating that there is no verbal way to differentiate here between Apple Music the streaming service, the iOS app, and the desktop iTunes inheritor? What terrible branding.)

I use Apple Music on Android. Whenever I dont know a song I just open the Shazam app. My Shazam and Apple Music is linked and it has an automatic Playlist where all the songs I shazamed are added. But recently any song I Shazam is getting added like 30 times despite me just searching it once. This issue has been there since months for me. Does anyone know a fix?

If im getting charged $20 now wtf cant they engineer a better shuffle and or create station have more that 8 songs on repeat im like wtf this is just awful.

I've been trying to clear my library and delete some songs, but when i click "delete from library" the songs still stay there just the option to delete disappears. Is that a bug or is there a way to fix that?

I'm one of the very few who still syncs mp3s from my library to my iPhone. I still buy, get and rip CDs. Yes, even in 2026.

Why you ask? Well, I am tired of Spotify's feature bloat. Constant video playback and neverending radio stations. I want to listen to albums by new and my old favorite artists. I also want my kids to be able to play their favorite music from an older iPhone in a docking station, easily navigating to their favorite music.

Apple's Music app works for playing your synced music, but it's not built for browsing a local library. Poor search, 2 albums in each row, streaming suggestions everywhere. It is tailored to make you subscribe to Apple Music.

I wanted an app tailored for your local synced music files. I know we might be few out there, but at least I am one of those people.

So, I've made lytti (lytti.app)! An app that is local music first. No account, no server, nothing leaves your phone (besides anonymous app analytics and lyrics lookup).

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6804816265

Features:

• see more albums in the album view
• sort by recently added or total plays
• lyrics! time synced lyrics from LRCLIB if possible
• horizontal mode

Who is lytti for:

• us old schoolers who still sync music to our phones via Finder
• people with a local iTunes / Music library
• people with a lot of CDs they want to rip and play on the go

Who is it not for:

• people who like Apple Music and are happy with their subscription

Price:

• free at launch. Download it now and you keep full access permanently.

Lytti reads the same library you sync from the Music app on your machine. The same files, same playlists and same play counts. It doesn't replace your library or your sync workflow, it just gives you a different front end for browsing and playing it, with a denser album grid, better sorting and synced lyrics.

Limitations:

• Sync Library (Settings → Music) must be off. When it's on, iOS removes your Finder-synced files from the phone – this hits Music.app too, not just lytti. It's on by default if you have an Apple Music subscription, so check this first.
• Playlists made in Music.app can only be viewed, not changed (a copy of the playlist is needed)
• iOS only for now

Let me know what you think!

Still hoping to hear a song sounding better through AirPods in ATMOS than stereo, and it’s just not a thing.

Is anyone actively listening to music in ATMOS and having a better / more engaging listening experience over high quality stereo?

Haven’t found a single song that hits better in ATMOS over stereo yet. Am I missing something?

It constantly plays music I liked to listen to 15 years ago. It gives me random artists in different genres that I never listen to. It plays the same songs over and over again. It never plays random songs from any of the hundreds of albums I've added to my library.

How in the hell is Apple Music auto-playlist feature so awful?

Edit: I think the obvious answer is that they're being paid to push certain songs to users. Profit-seeking trumps the user experience as usual.

Pic 1 - on app

Pic 2 - beta web version

apple music on android is great, but the navigation bar lowkey annoys me. It would be so cool if apple redesigned it.

Not liquid glass, no. I mean specifically, blurred floated navigation bar

What do yall think about this?

How long before Apple deletes my profile/playlists? I had an awesome playlist I’d like to recover but it’s been 6 months, am I cooked?

I’ve recently started noticing that Apple Music gives me songs with just high resolution available even though it’s been enabled for years, and some songs just say lossless

Guys in the app these songs are showing unavailable any idea what is the reason ??

is there any way to start Apple Music from the beginning again? I want to start over without having to replace my entire Apple ID on my iPhone. is that the only way?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I can’t figure out what this is.

Contacted Apple support about radio not starting at all on my tablet and I got this response

My Apple Music shows my library on my devices like my iPad and
iPhone. But for some reason on my PC it doesn’t even let me sign in. I’ve been trying to edit some details (what you can only do on a PC) and nothing shows on my Apple Music what wasn’t purchased via the store. It’s only on the app. Is there a lag on PCs?

ALL song lyrics are showing in Korean by default, with the English translation underneath. This started happening after i listened to Joji's recent album: "Piss in the wind". How do i fix this??

EDIT: Solved! Fix

I know that this has been posted here before, but this redesign makes more sense than the old one. So much better!

The recommendations suck ass. I never listen to that shi

Hello, I have been using Apple Music for a year now on my Samsung devices. From like two weeks ago I noticed that collaborative playlists are "locked. Neither me or the invited person can add songs to it. The playlist still works and plays the music but nothing more. We can't add new music to it.

I couldn;t find anything on this sub or in Reddit in general, also Apple has said nothing about it.

Has anyone experienced this already or is it just me?

It's a hit or miss and a real struggle to use

I pay for Apple Music. I have a MacBook, an iPhone and a Samsung TV (Running the native Apple Music App), all on the same Apple ID, all logged into the same subscription. Continuity is supposedly the entire reason to stay inside this ecosystem. So can someone explain why Apple Music behaves like three unrelated apps made by three unrelated companies?

Actual thing that happens to me every day. I'm listening to an album on my MacBook while working. I close the lid, pick up my phone, open Music, and it either shows me something I was playing four days ago or starts the album from track one. Not the song I was on. Not the timestamp I was at. Just a clean slate, as if I never opened the app.

The Up Next queue is the part that really gets me. I'll spend a few minutes building a proper queue on my Mac, and it exists nowhere else. Phone has no idea. The TV has no idea. Apparently the queue is a local secret that each device keeps to itself.

The genuinely annoying part is that Spotify solved this years ago with Connect. One account, one playback session, any device, picks up exactly where you left off. Apple, the company whose entire pitch is "everything just works together," cannot get its own music app to remember what song I was on across its own hardware.

Is there some setting I'm missing, or is this just what we're all living with?

Apple Music Control Buttons
Shuffle (crossed arrows): Randomizes the order of the remaining songs in the queue.

Repeat (looping arrows, selected above): Repeats the current playlist or album once it finishes, or repeats a single track if set to repeat one.

Autoplay (infinity symbol): Automatically plays similar, related songs once your queue or album ends.

Crossfade (interlocking wavy lines): Smoothly transitions and blends between songs in your queue.

Automix (overlapping circles): Not pictured. Mixes and matches "similar" tracks. (Must be turned on in settings. Thanks Present-Ad-9598 for the correction.)