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Q: iOS 8.4 music app

*** apple? iOS 8.4 music app and the radio that you are pushing on us. I didn't want it when it first came out as I have my own music selection. I tried radio and it sucked, now 8.4 forces apple radio onto the unwary. I couldn't believe all the music I deleted from my devices you automatically made me follow these artist who I no longer have interest in. It will take a little getting used to the new music app, it has some good things but gee. Some people may like the radio but for me it just didn't interest me. Also not all countries have the freedom of cheap Internet data, so to use apple radio it is just nasty on data costs. I think I hear Steve Jobs screaming ***  

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jun 30, 2015 11:09 AM

by Chris Fishback,Solvedanswer
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I had ALL of the same gripes, and there is a solution to ALL of them: TuneShell.

 

This is the best music app I've seen since the old school ios native music players...you know, back when things were simple:

1. No "Apple Music" nonsense.

2. Imports iTunes library, including playlists.

3. In-app EQ settings.

4. Easily shuffle songs--all of them, or by certain artists...like the good ol' days.

5. Can bring up the album of the current song (Why ios 8.4 would get rid of that is beyond me.)

6. Black color theme--doesn't blind you at night. You can change to white as well.

7. Includes current "Hot 100 songs/albums" playlists, but you can choose to delete them if you want.

8. SoundCloud integration made available, but doesn't try to shove it down your throat (ala Apple Music) if you don't use it.

9. Turn the phone sideways, and that cool 'album scroll' is back.

10. Closing out the app also turns off the music. (Some apps just mask the ios 8.4 player, so the music keeps playing thru the native player...annoying.)

11. Re-opening app takes you back to the song you were last listening to.

12. Click on a song, on you're taken to the play screen (duh)...not just a little tiny bar at the bottom, causing you to take your eyes off the road and rear-end someone.

 

Bottom line, it's very intuitive and user-friendly like the old school players. There are both free and paid versions; I paid for the upgrade.  If you're as annoyed with the 8.4 native player as I was, it's well worth it. And no, I'm not a paid spokesman/TuneShell employee...just a guy who liked all the simple iTunes/ios versions.  I also miss N64 and my Samsung A707 flip phone...that thing was a classic haha.

Posted on Aug 12, 2015 7:19 AM

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  • by RealHeavyDude,

    RealHeavyDude RealHeavyDude Jul 7, 2015 2:41 AM in response to toby3737
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    Jul 7, 2015 2:41 AM in response to toby3737

    My choice was to downgrade to iOS 8.3. It's a shame.

  • by Tentrey,

    Tentrey Tentrey Jul 7, 2015 7:24 AM in response to JC___
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    Jul 7, 2015 7:24 AM in response to JC___

    here something else that's wrong...  any artist that has more than three albums you can not shuffle that artist.  was trying to have a foo fighter day after the concert in DC and found that out.  that needs to be fixed asap!!!

  • by Mimble75,

    Mimble75 Mimble75 Jul 7, 2015 9:51 AM in response to leedave
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    Jul 7, 2015 9:51 AM in response to leedave

    I'm also having trouble figuring out where the controls are. I have a playlist open but I can't skip songs on it unless I turn the phone off, then back on, and use the controls in the lock screen.

     

    Where are the actual controls when I have the music app open and a playlist in progress? I preferred the old interface - this one makes no **** sense. I figure if I have to come to a forum to try and find help for something as simple as skipping a track I'm listening to, then Apple has really screwed up.

     

    I've never been a fan of iTunes as a way to curate and collect music, but this new phone app is even worse. I'm pretty unimpressed and I wish I hadn't updated until this was fixed.

     

    ETA: I also can't figure out how to tell if shuffle is on or off on a playlist. WTH, Apple? This is well below the standards we all know you're capable of.

     

    ETA: Ha! OK, got it: when you have a playlist open and a song playing, tap the song title at the bottom and it will show you the controls. It's clunky and stupid, but it's there! To get back to your playlist, tap the little down arrow in the upper left corner. I hope this saves someone some frustration.

  • by AJB2K3,

    AJB2K3 AJB2K3 Jul 7, 2015 10:11 AM in response to JC___
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    Jul 7, 2015 10:11 AM in response to JC___

    I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person to think that this piece of **** excuse for music player is ******* rubbish.
    God apple has gone to **** since Jobs died and thats a proven fact!

  • by anypats,

    anypats anypats Jul 7, 2015 10:27 AM in response to Mimble75
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    Jul 7, 2015 10:27 AM in response to Mimble75

    Mimble75 wrote:

     

    I'm also having trouble figuring out where the controls are. I have a playlist open but I can't skip songs on it unless I turn the phone off, then back on, and use the controls in the lock screen.

    You can also use the control center by swiping up from the bottom from any app while music is playing. You have the options to pause, go back, or skip tracks. You can also use Siri to say "Skip" and your song will be skipped.

  • by RCFootster,

    RCFootster RCFootster Jul 7, 2015 12:12 PM in response to JC___
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    Jul 7, 2015 12:12 PM in response to JC___

    Horrible update. Preferred the tabs at the bottom song, artist album etc. Now we have this stupid spotify rip off and apple radio jumbled in same section with music that’s been purchased. No quick way of changing between artist,song or album. I was going to buy a new iPod, but seeing this update I’m not going to waste my cash. Even after turning apple music off it doesn’t seem to help the layout. Don’t know who thought this was a good idea but please return to old style music library. Have the radio/spotify thing as a separate app.

  • by RacheltheLyokoan,

    RacheltheLyokoan RacheltheLyokoan Jul 7, 2015 7:41 PM in response to Tentrey
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    Jul 7, 2015 7:41 PM in response to Tentrey

    I've been having the same thing happen to my Rammstein albums

  • by smbmar,

    smbmar smbmar Jul 7, 2015 8:34 PM in response to JC___
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    Jul 7, 2015 8:34 PM in response to JC___

    Most of my music in my library has come from my massive cd collection.  It takes me a few hours to sync everything to my phone. (I recently got a iPhone 6 and it took 3 hours to sync all of my music and have everything the way I wanted it!)  With this new update, I am now missing music from my phone that was there before the update took place, have live versions of songs that I've never heard of compared to studio versions that I did have on CDs, and songs that I did not have checked to sync to my phone back on the phone (like Christmas music that took months to get off my phone the last time!)  Is there a way to get my old stuff back the way I had it?!? I'm very frustrated that once again an Apple update will take me hours to fix, if not months for a new update!

  • by JC___,

    JC___ JC___ Jul 7, 2015 10:59 PM in response to smbmar
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    Jul 7, 2015 10:59 PM in response to smbmar

    HI everyone,

     

    try try this I just found

    Musis - A Simple Music Player by Geun-hyeok Jang

    https://appsto.re/au/ImSMY.i

  • by JC___,

    JC___ JC___ Jul 7, 2015 11:40 PM in response to JC___
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    Jul 7, 2015 11:40 PM in response to JC___

    All of a sudden all my old songs I don't want started downloading. Apple you are a **** breath from me destroying all my apple devices and closing off!

  • by JC___,

    JC___ JC___ Jul 8, 2015 12:14 AM in response to JC___
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    Jul 8, 2015 12:14 AM in response to JC___

    I'm currently turning off automatic downloads on my devices, turn it all off to save your money until they sort out these bugs. Quite annoying

  • by Songstress,

    Songstress Songstress Jul 9, 2015 12:34 PM in response to RacheltheLyokoan
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    Jul 9, 2015 12:34 PM in response to RacheltheLyokoan

    This is also a MAJOR pet peeve I have. It was annoying from the Itunes updates but now this is ridiculous!

  • by Kilgore-Trout,

    Kilgore-Trout Kilgore-Trout Jul 9, 2015 12:40 PM in response to Songstress
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    Jul 9, 2015 12:40 PM in response to Songstress

    Make a playlist

  • by Songstress,

    Songstress Songstress Jul 9, 2015 12:46 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout
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    Jul 9, 2015 12:46 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

    I have playlists. In fact I listen to my music using playlists. The difference is that before listening to a one with the repeat one feature an enabled and being able to move on to another song is a very great feature. The whole "I'm going to repeat the same song and you can't do nothing but restart the song and can't move on" is very annoying. That feature wasn't broken and now it is.

     

    Thanks for the help but that didn't help one bit.

  • by Kilgore-Trout,

    Kilgore-Trout Kilgore-Trout Jul 9, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Songstress
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    Jul 9, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Songstress

    And how are you attempting to move to another song?

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