[cm2187]

I mostly listen to clasical music, operas, where the UI used by both amazon and apple just doesn't work. There are always 20 versions of an opera, so the quality of the recording matters a lot (so low quality samples aren't helpful). Apple usually only shows 100 results, so you get the tracks of one or two recording of the opera, you can't go further in the results. Track names often have the name of the opera and composer as a prefix and the rest is usually truncated by the UI which means you are presented with a long list of tracks with the same name. And amazon's windows music app is a complete disaster, with its unstructured hierarchy of screens where you never know how to get back to a screen, its screens flashing all the time, and the app was clearly not designed (or tested) to handle more than a few hundreds songs.

Digital music was one of the first usage of mass multimedia, at the end of the 90s. It is sad that the whole thing is still so clunky 20y later.