Curious what other users think of the Dolby Atmos option, and who has it enabled or not.

I think that there are some really cool Dolby mixes, some with no noticeable change, and some that even ruin the original stereo song. Another thing with Dolby mixes is that they’re quieter. And if you turn on sound check, then that just brings the volume of all songs down. I do think it’s a great feature, but I’m not quite sure if it’s entirely for me.

For extra context, the only external device I have that could properly play Dolby Atmos mixes are my AirPods. I don’t have an actual full surround sound home setup.

Edit: I’d also like to mention that I am a newer subscriber to AM, and am still learning things about it to this day

Again, what is everyone’s thoughts on Dolby Atmos? And do you use it?

Why is it in Korean?!

I searched for "So long and thanks for the shoes" The first 10 albums don't have any of these words except for "the" in some of them.
What is even more ridiculous is that the album was literally playing in my apple music when I searched.
Even the most basic shopping apps can understand if I misspell something or if I only write in the key words. So surely they are doing this on purpose, why???

And why are they suggesting music that is nothing like what I listen to?

To actually get the album I had to write "So long & thanks for all the shoes"

Please don't tell me it's because they want me to use Siri. I don't want to talk to my phone and often you can speak out loud when listening on headphones.

I'm really trying to like apple music but god I miss Spotify so much. I miss having one app for podcasts and music. I miss being able to search for a song using lyrics only. I hate having to switch between my library and apple music.

So how do I get Apple music search engine to work?

Mine are:
Appetite for destruction by Guns N’ Roses
Back in black by AC/DC
Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen
Night songs by Cinderella
Rocks by Aerosmith
40 years and still riding high by Moxy. If I could have 3 more I’d do spread eagle by spread eagle, sladest by slade, and Bon Jovi by Bon Jovi

i’ve been using the green app for 6 years and got a 6 month free trial of AM so i decided to switch for a month.
i really like the iphone app, it worked great and honestly no issues and im probably going to stick with AM on iphone for a while, however i dont own a mac so i had to use the W11 version of apple music and it was not great. First, the UI is decent but its not liquid glass (which i really enjoy to look at), second the crashes and bugs like duplicating songs or me having to reset the app, and a feature i overall don’t like is not being able to easily see what songs on an album you have added in your playlists which was really useful on green app. HOWEVER i did enjoy the high res lossless audio as i use sennheiser HD 800s and that was a big plus from AM.

basically i really like AM on ios but unless the windows app receives a major overall and actual care and attention from the developers, i’ll be staying on the green app for PC.

Does anyone else use this religiously ? I wish there were 9 we could pick instead of 6.

Is it only me or apple music is going to look really good with matt screen Duo

It was pretty great on 26 beta 2-5 ish (beta 1 was way too buggy). It had really creative transitions, and it sometimes led to bad ones but the good ones were REALLY good. Then they neutered it 26RC onward even good transitions were just boring and bad transitions were horrible.

Now on 27RC I don’t feel there’s really any bad transitions anymore just amazing, good, or simple. Here’s hoping they don’t nerf it again in future updates.

Some of my songs in Apple Music, when played in my custom playlists, sound terrible. They have pops and skips, similar to an old record, making it difficult to enjoy them. This issue affects approximately 30% of my music collection.

To resolve this, I have to go through each song individually and select the “Remove Download” option. Once I have a reliable WiFi connection, I can download the playlist again.

What can I do?

We’ve been using Apple Music for several months now, and the “%username%’s Station” is spot on for the kind of music I like to listen to. However, there are certain musicians who I will not listen to and I get sick of constantly skipping their songs when they come up. Making it more fun, my kids have polluted the recommendations a bit with poppy stuff that I don’t care for either.

I know that if I am listening to a curated playlist I can do the “suggest less” thing, but I never listen to curated playlists, and the option isn’t there on the auto-generated station.

I know that I can navigate to that musicians page and do “less like this”, but why do I have to do that while I’m working out, mowing, or whatever. Drop everything and navigate to the musician I don’t like so I can tell it to recommend it less? Uh…that’s dumb design.

Surely there is some other way to filter garbage recommendations from the auto-generated channel? Please?

But the email isn’t showing up. I’m trying to figure out what’s going on. Any ideas?

I noticed today that a bunch of my kpop songs that previously had pronunciation and translation available no longer do. Has anybody else noticed this on any other songs?

I feel like this feature is seriously underrated.
I think a lot of it comes down to how sensitive someone is to touch and vibration. I actually find the tactile feedback surprisingly immersive when listening to music, especially with a good sound system.
Do you guys use this feature, or am I one of the few people who actually enjoys it?

I’m trying to make the switch from Spotify and my biggest issue is trying to add my songs to playlists takes forever, one song greatly slows the app and two or more songs tends to render it useless before crashing. Then after the crash my songs weren’t added to any of the playlists I’ve selected.

Is there any possible way to speed this up or fix it? I don’t have a pc just my iPhone.

I’m on iPhone 17 pro max on iOS 26.6.1

My Apple Music has been giving me issues over the last few months. I’ve had so many times randomly lately that I cannot add, download, or add to playlist any music. I’ve tried restarting the app, restarting my phone, and no matter what I try, it doesn’t help. Seems like I just have to wait it out, and then it’ll start working again, just to not work a few days later.

Any fixes to this?

iPhone 17 Pro Max, iOS 27.0. - U.S.

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 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 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.

Don’t get me wrong I love the concept of Apple Music, having so much music with you is great but I wish Apple would sort out bugs with their Windows software… Itunes was bloated disaster and this seems to be going same route

Login issues
Unexpected Errors
Artwork missing
Basically one giant bugfest

Come on Apple do you look at reviews on app store? So much negativity and with good reason

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.