[vinceguidry]

It's not that Apple doesn't have solutions to my problem, they just don't work very well. I used to get on with the checked songs feature in iTunes, but the software would regularly lose the checks. Given that those checks were effectively "my music library," this means that Apple would arbitrarily alter my library. After loading up iTunes enough times where my library suddenly all became checked, I had to find another solution.

Setting Music on my phone to only play downloaded music worked... until it didn't. Suddenly getting a gap between songs (while one was downloading) and then hearing a song that I took off my library 4 years ago was jarring enough and it happened frequently enough that I couldn't find an alternative player fast enough.

Apple doesn't understand just how central music is to my life. It used to, but I think they got so caught up in chasing the gold pot at the end subscription music rainbow that they let what made them so huge in the first place go straight into the shitter.

Overnight, they went from the only company that gave a damn, to the only company that didn't. And it happened right after Apple Music.