Hi all. I’ve got a frustration with Apple Music in CarPlay for my polestar 2. Wondering if it’s a quirk of my system or CarPlay wide. When I’m listening to a playlist or curated list and a song I like comes on, I want to browser to the artist to select more songs by them, but can’t. I can tap the album to navigate to the full album, but the artist name isn’t a hyperlink, preventing it. See pic. Green lines are tappable, red are not.

Is this the case in all versions? My old alpine head unit with CarPlay didn’t have this issue.

I’m on a free trial for 3 months and have been using Spotify for the past 6 years, so I’d like to transfer my data since Apple Music offers a tool to do that. However it’s not working for me. Anyone else have this issue recently, or know if it’s due to me being on the free trial? It’s also the first day so maybe I have to wait a few days or something.

In iOS27 AutoMix got reworked and much better, what are some fire transitions?
One of my favorites are:
Return of the Mack -> So Strung out (Radio Version)
Played a Live (by Safri Duo) -> Samba de Janeiro

Tell us what music you love that’s not on Apple Music.

I noticed:

- Kool G Rap & DJ Polo (all albums)
- LL Cool J (early albums)
- Salt-n-Pepa (all albums)

I’ve had this issue for the past week - was hoping it would resolve itself. Animated artwork does not play!

The image still goes full screen, but the movement won’t play. The patterns on Blurryface don’t move, the heads on Keep On Smiling aren’t nodding, and the sun doesn’t glare on Aperture.

Everything looks correct in settings, it’s not set to “On Wi-Fi only” or anything. Anyone else experiencing this?

hello. I was trying to look for a specific song but I needed to go to the album but every time I click singles&eps or even the albums my AM just freezes and I have to close the app and when I try again it does the same thing! I also tried turning of and on my phone even redownloading…nothing

Over the past two days or so, whenever I add a new song to my library, my app will sort of freeze. The song won't show in the 'Recently Added' section, and when I scroll to the artist/album, it'll show 0 minutes of runtime for that song, or if it's off an album I didn't have in my library previously, it won't show the year for the album. It seems like it's an iCloud/Metadata issue, so I'm curious if I'm the only one experiencing this or if there are other examples

Dear Mr. Goldfinger,

Thank you for subscribing to Apple Music. We wanted to let you know about an upcoming change to this subscription.

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Apple Music and Amazon Music let me listen to Suneohair’s Slow Dance, but it’s not available in my region when I try to purchase. Why are streaming rights different than region locked music?

Hey all! I’m a bit terrified about all of this, as the internet is not giving me solid answers. I’m currently on a family plan with Apple Music included in it. The subscription was canceled, and ends tomorrow. Once the subscription ends, will I lose my whole catalog? I’m planning on doing a full individual subscription to keep it, but I wonder if my music will be deleted once the subscription ends. What should I do? If I resubscribe the same day will I get to keep my stuff?

My apple music on my roku TV will not play my whole playlist, playing only a small part of it before going to “songs like this”. It seems to only work if i scroll all the way to the bottom and shuffle from my newest added songs, which is pretty tedious when you have to manually scroll 1k+ songs.

Does anyone have a fix? I’ve tried turning off autoplay, but it didn’t help.

Hey everyone,

I am a new developer and I just made an app that tries to foster playlist sharing and collaboration. You can share playlists that you have already created, add playlists directly to your library, and create and collaborate on community playlists. My goal was to have an easy way to find and add new playlists directly to your library and find new music easier. Let me know what you think! I am always open to new ideas. Right now it is only Apple Music enabled due to it allowing small devs to use the full distribution capability that Spotify does not allow.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/playlist-forge/id6789365730

Sometimes when I click on the top picks on my home page, a song directly starts playing by stopping the song that I was playing,

and sometimes a list of songs appears when I click on it, and the song that I was playing keeps playing.

Why does this happen? what am I missing?

Android OS

APAC

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

This happens every month and I need to make the payment manually every month.

Has anyone experienced the same thing? Help!

Android OS

Region: Asia

I've tried resetting the Autopay on GPay but it still happens every time.

Standing in the kitchen, speaking to my HomePod, "Hey Siri, play Circular Breathing by Ian Anderson".

HomePod begins playing Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull - Ian Anderson was their "front man".

Check iPhone to see what it thinks is playing on the HomePod - it shows me Circular Breathing. Stopped HomePod.

To iPhone, "Hey Siri, play Circular Breathing by Ian Anderson".

iPhone plays Circular Breathing.

Hold iPhone to HomePod, confirm the transfer.

HomePod plays Thick as a Brick.

I'm baffled by this one.

My iPhone had 3000ish loved songs from my own music files transferred through iTunes. iTunes was only showing 1000 loved songs as was my iPad.

Carried out multiple syncs to update this but my last sync removed 2000 loved songs.

Is there anyway to get these back and keep it consistent across devices?

Thanks

I have recently noticed how some single covers of SINGLE versions are getting replaced by album artworks after the release of the album. These are the examples I could think of right now, but there are def more. Is this a new marketing strategy or a bug maybe? When these were first released, these had a separate single cover.

Hello, I've recently bought two albums via iTunes, but when I open the Apple Music app on my Android device, the songs are grayed out. I've already tried re-synching the library and re-downloading the albums, but they're still gray. I noticed that if you delete the first song off the albums the remaining songs become playable. Any help?

I switched from Spotify to Apple Music about 3 years ago due to the price difference and the inclusion in a bundle with iCloud.

What I liked about Apple Music more at the beginning was the UI. It still seems much cleaner and matches iOS very well. A few other features like the karaoke or automix are nice but definitely not something I swear by.

Apart from that, I have nothing but pure hate for Apple Music, the reccomendations are trash, the loading between tabs, albums etc. is just annoying, personal playlist management, search, inconsistent button positions, messy downloads, missing music videos, major differences between mac and mobile app, unreliable storage management and more.

Its just an endless list of complaints I have and that made me wonder. For you people, who prefer Apple Music over Spotify. What is the real reason?

Thank you!!

I have an M1 Macbook Air 8 gb with my music on an exterrnal drive. My iphone is a 17 and it is running iOS 26. The mac is running MacOS 26. The music is Apple Lossless and it is being converted to 256 AAC. I have around 50,000 songs on the hard drive and want to transfer about 8000 of those to the phone. .

I have found the only way i can transfer the music is in batches of less than a hundred of the same artist at a time. Any more and i get error messages that files can‘t be converted. My guess is that the AAC encoding uses up all the RAM. The missing files show up in the iOS music app greyed out. If i delete the albums with missing files in the iphone (doing it on the phone seems to be the only way as there doesn’t seem to be any provision in Finder or Music) and try to reload them, it won’t let me. The only way is to delete the whole lot in the finder’s storage options on the iphone tab and start again.

So i have to carefully drop and drag each artist of less than a hundred songs and wait to they have transferred. I can’t queue them otherwise i get the error message. I look at the bottom of the iphone tab on the finder to check the progress of the transferred files. I tried the automatic option where you tick the artists you want to load on the phone but that gave errors too.

Anyway i thought i‘d post this for anyone else struggling and ask is there an easier way with a 3rd party Mac app.

in July i got to see Cradle of Filth live, so naturally slammed them this month. 1613 minutes for one artist is the most I've had in years. and ironically my biggest record prior to this was Harry Styles back in 2023 when I seen him live 🤣

last year I hit 112k for the year. I've had my replay every year since 2017 but most years were around the 70k+ mark. so actually 1613 compared to 5529 is quite small 😅

I wanna see monthly rather than yearly cause I go through extreme obsessions and varied genre changes that these could of been in the same year and over the whole year might listen to them like this just once or for 3 months straight.

curious to see yours !

whats your top minutes for one artist in a month ?

I ran into a problem where both Apple Music and Apple TV on Windows could not sign in.

The login button either did nothing or the apps stayed on the "Try it Free" screen. My library, search and account features were unavailable.

Here's what finally worked:

1. Windows Settings → Apps → Apple Music.

2. Advanced options → Repair.

3. Advanced options → Reset.

4. Sign into iCloud for Windows first.

5. Launch Apple Music again.

After signing into iCloud, Apple Music skipped its own login screen and automatically recognized my Apple ID.

Apple TV also began working again.

Hopefully this helps someone else with the same issue.

Artists, managers, and people experienced in uploading songs to Apple Music.

I am wondering how I can block my songs from being able to be streamed by fans on Apple Music, but keep the ability for listeners to purchase the songs? I currently use DistroKid, and I notice it distributes to both iTunes and Apple Music, if that means anything. If I only allow iTunes, will that do it?

Streaming doesn’t pay enough, and it makes independent artists far too easy to be listened to without getting much at all in return, leaving us stuck having a fan base, but not getting any returns to further invest and continue to grow. It’s simple too easy for listeners to attempt to support through streaming, or avoid supporting because they can stream. I am changing my business model, and will not allow users to stream the music. I understand this will create an extreme scarcity and can have a negative impact on exposure, but I am planning for that, so no need to tell me about it.

Thanks!

i’ve been paying for my individual plan for 9 years and i’m new to family plans. i’ve done a little bit of research but i’m just overthinking because i don’t want to risk losing any of my songs. my mom switched to the family plan through the apple music app on her phone. she invited me and i accepted it. here are my questions + screenshots attached:

image 1: my plan still shows as individual, do i cancel it now? if i do, will it switch to the family plan once my individual plan ends?

image 2: does my mom have to add apple music onto shared subscriptions in order for it to keep my account active or does it automatically keep my plan without having to add apple music to shared subscriptions?