Apple Music is Going to Get Me in a Car Wreck

Recently started using Apple Music (on Android and Windows iTunes). Like many people I listen to music a lot of the time while driving (with the bad traffic in many cities these days you spend a lot of time on the road.)


Not sure if this is specific to Android versions and using Apple Music on Android Auto, but


1) While driving, using Android Auto and Apple Music, you can add a song you like to your library but the Android Auto interface provides no button to Love or Dislike a song. Therefore you can't help make Apple Music smarter about your listening tastes while spending hours and hours listening to music in your car, UNLESS, you wake your phone, open the now playing, click the three dots, click the Love or Dislike button..... as you crash into the back of the car in front of you.


2) When you love a song, it doesn't add it to your library. I thought there was a preference setting to automatically add songs to your library that you love (that aren't already in your library), but maybe that was another service like spotify.


3) When listening to radio stations like Apple Hits, there's no way (while you're at a stop light) to back up to a previous song you didn't get a chance to add to your library. Pretty much every other service I've used has the ability to go back through your previous songs. Sort of like when watching cable TV you can rewind, but then fast forward back to live TV.


4) If you were listening to something like Apple Music 1 and once you get home and out of your car, you can going to Apple Replay Music but the replay list shows you only listened to the station, not the songs you listened to while listening to that station so you can't go through your song history of all songs you listened to while driving and later add them to your library and/or mark that you love/dislike them.


It is as if the use case scenarios (aka user stories) while driving have not been given much consideration in the designing of the software maybe because a newer generation of developers actually don't drive that much?


Posted on Aug 24, 2020 8:44 AM

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Aug 24, 2020 9:04 AM in response to Jazzeee

The other frustrating thing is when you go to all these steps to simply love/dislike a song, if you dislike it, it doesn't skip the song! Why the heck would you want to keep listening to a song you just disliked!?


I do understand now that Apple treats a "station" more like actual radio where you can skip or go back. I was just used to coming from Google that with their stations, you can skip songs or go back.

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