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just brew it! wrote:

Have I mentioned lately how much I love my Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox firmware? (Yeah, kind of old-school... but I don't need to worry about any of the sort of crap you're bitching about...)

geekl33tgamer wrote:

Ok, so Apple Music launced here a few days ago and I thought I would give it a try. There's a free 90 trial, so why not. Now, I've been using iTunes to manage my extensive library for years (some 77GB of music) and sync selected playlists to my iPhone.
But since using Apple Music, I'm deeply frustrated with several issues I can't seem to overcome.

I could go on, but those are the main ones.

Please tell me there's a fix to syncing playlists locally like you've always been able to. I'm not paying out a lot of extra money in mobile data to stream my content over the air when it used to be saved locally no problem.

geekl33tgamer wrote:

You can no longer sync playlists on your PC to the iPhone's internal storage anymore.

geekl33tgamer wrote:

It's impossible to tell what songs are saved on your PC, on the Phone or are totally in the cloud.

End User wrote:

geekl33tgamer wrote:

You can no longer sync playlists on your PC to the iPhone's internal storage anymore.

I just created a new playlist and added a few songs on my PC. On my iPhone the new playlist and songs appeared immediately (the songs are on the iPhone)

Concupiscence wrote:

Is it wrong that these days I just rip to high quality preset LAME-encoded VBR mp3s with 320kbps as the ceiling? I'm so rarely in a position to sit down with quality headphones and listen to music that it's just the most pragmatic choice for my typical earbuds or car stereo environments. If the opportunity arises to be absorbed in music, I'll break out the scotch and Sennheisers and find my old CD player, but that's pretty darn infrequent.

geekl33tgamer wrote:

End User wrote:

geekl33tgamer wrote:

You can no longer sync playlists on your PC to the iPhone's internal storage anymore.

I just created a new playlist and added a few songs on my PC. On my iPhone the new playlist and songs appeared immediately (the songs are on the iPhone)

Then I guess that just doesn't work on Windows then: http://www.geekl33tgamer.co.uk/images/i ... enshot.jpg

My iPhone has no way to move files from the PC to the phones internal storage anymore. It used to be on that menu shown and there's no way to get it back. If I add songs to my library, they appear on the phone but get streamed from the cloud.

It's enough to make me want to ditch the phone to be fair. Sync of my own music should not be this hard.

Chrispy_ wrote:

I use MP3's

All of these subscription music services are awful, even Spotify.

geekl33tgamer wrote:

Thanks. Will be interesting to see if I get to the bottom of this issue. I'm defiantly not alone from my research on the matter, so I wonder how it works for you (unless it's OSX only feature) as it's defiantly nowhere to be found in my software now.

geekl33tgamer wrote:

Thanks. Will be interesting to see if I get to the bottom of this issue. I'm defiantly not alone from my research on the matter, so I wonder how it works for you (unless it's OSX only feature) as it's defiantly nowhere to be found in my software now.

Philldoe wrote:

Add me into the old guy crowd. Buy CD, Rip to FLAC using EAC with the ID3 tag option. Drag album folder from PC to Artist folder on nexus 6 and play using VLC for Android.

End User wrote:

geekl33tgamer wrote:

Thanks. Will be interesting to see if I get to the bottom of this issue. I'm defiantly not alone from my research on the matter, so I wonder how it works for you (unless it's OSX only feature) as it's defiantly nowhere to be found in my software now.

I just bought a bunch of music on both my Windows rig and my Mac. While the just purchased music appears on my iPhone and my iPad it is not local. Automatic downloads is on on both the iPhone and iPad. This is a bug as far as I am concerned.

Philldoe wrote:

Add me into the old guy crowd. Buy CD, Rip to FLAC using EAC with the ID3 tag option. Drag album folder from PC to Artist folder on nexus 6 and play using VLC for Android.

NeelyCam wrote:

Concupiscence wrote:

Is it wrong that these days I just rip to high quality preset LAME-encoded VBR mp3s with 320kbps as the ceiling? I'm so rarely in a position to sit down with quality headphones and listen to music that it's just the most pragmatic choice for my typical earbuds or car stereo environments. If the opportunity arises to be absorbed in music, I'll break out the scotch and Sennheisers and find my old CD player, but that's pretty darn infrequent.

For my Clip, I started looking for ways to compress into smaller files without losing too much sound quality. I started down-sampling at 32kHz when I realized I can't hear anything beyond 16kHz... Going with 192kbps VBR at 32kHz gives me pretty good-sounding MP3s and don't eat too much space.

Concupiscence wrote:

Is it wrong that these days I just rip to high quality preset LAME-encoded VBR mp3s with 320kbps as the ceiling? I'm so rarely in a position to sit down with quality headphones and listen to music that it's just the most pragmatic choice for my typical earbuds or car stereo environments. If the opportunity arises to be absorbed in music, I'll break out the scotch and Sennheisers and find my old CD player, but that's pretty darn infrequent.