Fecking iTunes (pt 157)

Jalapeno

When did the bloody thing stop downloading content, and just loading pointers to iCloud content ?  (Copied some recently purchased albums to my phone - none of them will play without internet connection).

Not a lot you can do about it on the London Underground !

Useless feckers !!!!!!!

jellyroll

I share your pain. I now use a combination of iTunes, Amazon Music & Dropbox - between the 3 of them I can usually find some music when I'm on the Jubilee Line.

guitarfishbay

It's a pain. You can make it download if you click the ... icon at the top right of the album. Not much use without a decent connection though.

All this on the go streaming stuff will be great one day where there's connection everywhere and data plans are unlimited. Until then, having files is still preferable so this default behaviour is annoying

Jalapeno

Is there any way to "un" default it ?

guitargeek62

The introduction of Apple Music has finally made me give up on iTunes. I don't mind the desktop app (on Mac at least), but the iOS app has become too frustrating to stay with.

I've switched over to Spotify Premium which, while not perfect, is a substantial improvement.

guitarfishbay

Jalapeno said:

Is there any way to "un" default it ?

Looks like there's an option in settings - music - automatic downloads, though that might just apply to stuff added via Apple Music, I'm not sure

BRISTOL86

If only Spotify worked properly with CarPlay then I could completely ignore iTunes for the rest of my life. Alas, until then, I'm stuck with it. 

TimmyO

--> Spotify.

You can tell the desktop client to include any folders where you have existing stuff, and this (or indeed any other Spotify tracks) can be told to download to your mobile.

imho Spotify's maturity in this market shows a lot (I've used Apple, Amazon, and Google Music too) 

Danji

Jalapeno said:

Is there any way to "un" default it ?

Would that be fault it, or de-default

ICBM

That's why I don't do streaming or cloud-based music… I use iTunes but I almost exclusively use it for ripping from CD (to mp3, not AAC) so I can use the files where and how I want.

I still buy about 99% of my music on CD - I'll only download if there's no CD option (or at least conveniently) and I would never rely on something that I don't physically hold.

Jalapeno

I've got far too many CDs already. As soon as I download them (as mp3s) to iTunes on the computer they're backed up to 2 non-Apple devices.

It's the phone syncing is the issue - got half a dozen "zombie" albums now - might wipe the lot & start again.

RandallFlagg

I don't do all that cloud bollocks either only for a few Numbers and Pages documents, never music. I use iTunes on Mac and turn off Apple Music. My iTunes has my MP3s in it all stored on hard drive. I don't buy a great deal of music through iTunes but if I do I retag it and always 'hard' copy it to phone or iPad for listening so the iPad and Phone always have MP3s on too.

Old fashioned and not thoroughly modern I know but that's just how I run my setup.

cruxiform

I don't stream either, I prefer my music on the phone. I think my brain is old fashioned in that respect. My current iPhone is 128gb and roughly 40GB of that is music. It took me a long time  to abandon my old iPod classic but as I prefer bluetooth headphones ands speakers now I had no choice but to do that. I just wish there was a click wheel addon for the iPhone

TTony

Jalapeno said:

 got half a dozen "zombie" albums now

I hadn't realised that they'd released that many.