[abalone]

The polish issue I see is mainly the visible seams between Apple Music, iTunes Store and your library. It's ugly that the search makes you choose a context. There should just be one simple profile for an artist. Show your favorited/"added" albums up top and everything else from them down below. Whether it's full tracks or just previews should just depend on whether you and/or they participate in Apple Music.

I also feel the UI could be simplified further by burying the concept of "downloading" somewhat akin to how iCloud Photo Library does it. It should just aim to handle 95% of cases via intelligent caching, like cache all your latest stuff and anything you recently put into a playlist. I know we on HN tend to be advanced users who love manual control but we could still do it via playlists. Get those download buttons out of the way for most folks.

I find discovery to be pretty good! The "My New Music Mix" is surprisingly decent for me. That is entirely track-based and it's probably my main way of discovering completely new music. I used to hate For You because it felt like browsing the 99 cent rental section of Blockbuster.. lots of old stuff that was maybe good, but I'm mainly interested in new music. But the New Music mix has changed my feeling.

[m_mueller]

I think you're missing an important point that GP made: Apple lately absolutely refuses to give you any kind of error or even status informations in its cloud products (Music, Photos, Notes, ...).

It's meant to just work like 'magic' - as if all wireless connections as well as the server and client software are nowadays so perfect that you'd never encounter error states anymore, and it's all so fast that you don't need progress information on anything. Right.

[kalleboo]

And in the one place they do give you status (iCloud Photo Library), it regularly shows completely bizarre numbers (I often see stuff like "Uploading 15 photos (369MB / 125MB)"