[cmsimike]

I have been migrating away from Apple for my music needs lately. There are tons of reasons for me to want to get away. You named one: - Really buggy. It will arbitrarily skip to the next song in the middle of playback. Sometimes it will refuse to play a song in my library, and will move on to the next. No error, no feedback, nothing.

But what _really_ broke my music-listening back was Apple, in their "infinite" wisdom have been rating songs for me they think I'd like in my library (grey stars). As far as I can tell, there is no way for me to distinguish between my stars and the stars Apple adds, which means my playlist of songs that I've rated has now been ruined by Apple's "recommendation."

edit And, I want to be absolutely clear here - there are songs I'VE uploaded into Apple Music using iTunes music match sync whatever. Apple thinks they can tell me more about my music library, that I've purchased and cultivated over all these years, then I can.

For anyone interested, I am using: Very large NAS to store my music. Tagging music using Musicbrainz Picard. Multiple Kodi (formerly XBMC) front ends, all sharing the same music and video library via mysql.

[k-mcgrady]

>> But what _really_ broke my music-listening back was Apple, in their "infinite" wisdom have been rating songs for me they think I'd like in my library (grey stars). As far as I can tell, there is no way for me to distinguish between my stars and the stars Apple adds, which means my playlist of songs that I've rated has now been ruined by Apple's "recommendation."

A quick Google would have explained this for you. They are not 'rating your tracks'. With Apple Music you can 'love' tracks which then show a red heart next to them. The grey stars are shown next to tracks that are the most popular with all Apple Music users. So if you view an album, generally, the singles will have grey star next to them. Really useful when they recommend a new album and you want to listen to the best tracks before digging deeper.

[cmsimike]

I don't have the apple music service. I have itunes match sync whatever that uploads my music into the itunes cloud. Apple is assuming about my music. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/67221/how-to-remov... This is my issue.

I am not going to go through all my albums and manually remove what Apple has screwed up. I'd rather migrate away to a system I 100% control.

[k-mcgrady]

Ok different issue. Still don't see how it's an issue. The estimates they provide are very obviously different from actual ratings. I don't see how they would confuse.

[cmsimike]

The grey stars get inserted into smart playlists created to include rated songs. I don't want to hear what apple thinks I'd like. I want to hear what I've rated highly.

[pawelkomarnicki]

For me this star was very confusing before I googled, but now I treat it as a cool "shortcut" to see the strongest song of the album/artist to quickly get my opinion :-)