Apple Music is SO SLOW

I wish i agreed with you on Spotify. I moved to Apple because the speed and unreliability of Spotify was driving me nuts. Sad to say Apple have many similar issues. In working out why Spotify was so slow I put a network monitor on my computer and was amazed at how often Spotify constantly connects out to numerous international servers and sucks up my bandwidth. It was like a 90s movie about some spy satellite network!

Since the last update my apple music on iPhone has been slow as **** too. Whenever I tap on a playlist/album it stays loading all tracks, regardless of the amount, for a solid ten seconds or more. I don't know why.

Almost a year later and this is still an issue. I just signed up for a 3 month trial and im using the browser veriosn of apple music. Its so terribly slow. 30 seconds to just open the site, then another 30 to play a song, searching and other actions are painfully slow.

Same issue with me. Sooooooooo sloooowwwww on my iPhone and constantly refuses to load via sonos as well.

I just moved to Apple Music from Spotify as I’m an apple fan but seriously making me reconsider this move!!! Wtf!!!!

Same here, no patches or fixes till now. If apple really wanted that users use apple music they would fix it. Seems we have the next bad platform beside the iTunes client ... Maybe you guys should finally hop on the train and use Kubernetes ...

Yes it's really slow. Platform doesn't matter. In android? sloww.. mac? sloww. iphone?!? SLOW

This is probably a server side problem and it's horrible, Apple should fix this immediately. Otherwise we will start using alternatives :/

I have a rather large library as well that has been acquired from various sources over the years. I’ve also used iTunes Match for some time. I moved all of my media to an external drive a while back, and I thought that was the reason for the delayed start on everything. I have some work coming up that I need to re organize my library for and I realized everything has been uploaded to the cloud, so it’s not actually my external that was causing the problem.

I know the file structure and naming convention changed when iTunes switched to Music. If you have any sort of step by step guide on resetting all of this, that would be super helpful! I have a ton of playlists, which I need to retain. Probably songs spread about different devices.. I’m fairly tech savvy, but I have to say.. my iTunes music library is just a mess of confusion! I just want a fresh start, but I’m terrified I’m going to loose data. I also have many tracks cued in music to start at certain times that I don’t want to lose. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

I'm really, really tired of Apple never confirming or denying technical issues. Hiding behind security concerns is always the excuse. This is not what I pay $30 a month--and $320 a year to Apple for. I feel like I'm being sold frictionless, future-facing convenience--when in fact all I'm getting is the big hole in the middle of its spaceship campus. Apple is becoming like a really ****** version of GoFundMe for a bunch of "Logan's Run" cosplayers in their donut hole headquarters.

I thought it was bad under Catalina... under Big Sur, the Music app is virtually unusable. It takes at minimum 30 seconds to open, normally in the 2-3 MINUTE range. Searching is almost impossible, and changing views (ie: songs to genres.... or one playlist to another) can take 5 minutes, if it happens at all.

@raz273 Did you ever get a resolution? Apple Music "Quits Unexpectedly" at least once per month on my mac mini. I often have to restart the app. Takes forever to start playing songs, blah, blah, blah. We all know the story.

I was a Spotify user and switched to Apple One Premier for the whole family to have access and the other apps. But this is seriously making me rethink my decision.

Interested in knowing if you have a fix.

I have the same problem. Using iTunes on Windows desktop PC and it takes around 20 seconds or more to load every time I choose a new album to load. iPhone takes time to load sometimes too, or only loads the first 15 seconds of the song before skipping to the next song. Both problems are very annoying.

This really is a persistent annoyance. Practically have to close all other programs to have it function with any responsiveness. I always make sure to stop whatever "genius" thinks it's necessary to use 50% of my CPU for when it starts up. But even after that, just re-sizing the window lags worse than Elder Scrolls on dial up.

I'm experiencing the same problem. Whole app is horrible SLOW, not only when you start listening song but "Radio" tab, "Browse" and other tabs loades forever. This is the main reason why i switched to Spotify

I don't have a Mac but I've always had problems running Apple Music. After all these years I've just about had enough. That means switching out of all my Iphones and Ipads. If I can't get on my computer and not be able to download stuff off my phone without pulling out what little hair I have left It's just not worth it! If someone from apple doesn't at least try to get this fixed I'm gone.

Apple Music has become garbage. 16GB RAM machine, running perfectly fine, yet Apple Music takes an eternity to load music and navigate through screens, etc. Spotify runs circles around it, unfortunatly. I really want to drop Spotify but this performance and utter usability nightmare that is Apple Music is making that a difficult decision indeed. $3T company and they can't get a core application right. Tim, I hope you're listening.

raz273 wrote:

OS X Catalina

The songs loading is extremely slow. The internet connection is working fine, everything else that requires internet is working.