Apple music is not usable with any device. Just to name a few issues I've personally experienced:
- Not being able to listen to music because itunes said I wasn't signed in. (of course I was and the only way to fix it was to restart my computer.) This error happens a few times per month.
- Songs not playing and getting an alert error with some random code that results in searching countless threads online. This happens multiple times per day.
- There's no way to get to an artist from a song...think about that. You can't click on the artists name or select it from the dropdown menu while a song is playing...So you have to search the song and then select the artists name in the search results.
- Absolutely no concept of syncing. Create a playlist on your computer and it might show up on your phone? Create one on your phone and edit it on your computer, but the changes don't reflect across devices. Everything just goes to shit.
- Extremely slow clunky UI. Click a button or link and wait 1-2 seconds for some random UI thing to pop up so you can do whatever it is you set out to do.
- Click any tab in the top navigation with the window set ot 50%0 of the screen and the UI will flutter quite a bit making you select a tab you didn't want to.
- Click on a playlist that apple made and get an error saying something like "This playlist is currently not available". This happens at least once per week.
...I could go on and on. The ONLY thing Apple music gets right is recommendations. IMO It is by far the worst piece of software Apple has ever release.
I have nothing to say about your other issues (I haven't experienced most of them; I'm quite happy with the service), but the banner at the top of the More (…) menu takes you to the album of a song, which then easily leads to the Artist page. Do it all the time, takes me half a second.
It's definitely buggy. It's a real shame too, because the service is actually awesome when it works. But tying it to iTunes on Windows and not spending nearly enough time hammering out the backend issues is killing it.
It's worth noting that most of your issues are related to the brutal experience that is iTunes for Windows. Not that's an excuse, just a heads up for those that may not share your experience.
I use Apple Music every day on my iPhone, Mac and work Windows 7 machine, and I experience every issue you list on Windows but not on the Mac or iPhone.
And yet it's still more useful to me than Spotify, which summarily stopped syncing new music to my phone after a few months (and, no, uninstall/reinstall did nothing to remedy it).
Apple Music's interface can be wonky, but the search bar is going to be %90 of the interface of any music app for me, so I can deal - most of the time I search with Siri and don't even look at it. And the "For Me" tab full of incredible curated playlists in genres of my choosing has introduced me to far more music than Spotify ever did.
Apple Music's UI/UX is not only terrible it can prove deadly if used while driving. I know we shouldn't be messing with our music apps while driving but a good majority does.
Using Siri and Apple Music for the most part works like a charm and is helpful in terms of keeping one safe while driving/enjoying their music subscription app.
- Not being able to listen to music because itunes said I wasn't signed in. (of course I was and the only way to fix it was to restart my computer.) This error happens a few times per month.
- Songs not playing and getting an alert error with some random code that results in searching countless threads online. This happens multiple times per day.
- There's no way to get to an artist from a song...think about that. You can't click on the artists name or select it from the dropdown menu while a song is playing...So you have to search the song and then select the artists name in the search results.
- Absolutely no concept of syncing. Create a playlist on your computer and it might show up on your phone? Create one on your phone and edit it on your computer, but the changes don't reflect across devices. Everything just goes to shit.
- Extremely slow clunky UI. Click a button or link and wait 1-2 seconds for some random UI thing to pop up so you can do whatever it is you set out to do.
- Click any tab in the top navigation with the window set ot 50%0 of the screen and the UI will flutter quite a bit making you select a tab you didn't want to.
- Click on a playlist that apple made and get an error saying something like "This playlist is currently not available". This happens at least once per week.
...I could go on and on. The ONLY thing Apple music gets right is recommendations. IMO It is by far the worst piece of software Apple has ever release.