I've spent the past few months building Gnomish, a native Apple Music player that aims to be a well-designed whimsical take on an Apple Music player built on MusicKit. There's a gnome hidden in almost every playlist cover.

I’m a product manager of 15+ years with a background in software engineering and art, and much of the time spent working in entertainment tech.

On top of the player basics (playlists, search, queue, AirPlay), it aims to bring fun via Magic Mixtapes where describe a vibe using a set of tags and your own description, to get a playlist with its own cover art, and a weekly mix built from your listening, a wanderable map of 150 genres, a Letterboxd-like album setup (hearts sync both ways with Apple Music Favorites, plus ratings and reviews), and an optional friends layer called the Garden. (And Last.fm integration!)

Fine print: Needs an active Apple Music subscription with Sync Library on.

Testflight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wQ94qtW5

App website link: https://gnomish.app/

I'd genuinely love feedback from anyone willing to give it a try. Thanks!

So I’m currently on a free trial for Apple Music, after having used the green app for years, and I am loving it. The only thing is, I am currently on a family plan for the green app with my parents, so I would have to convince them both to swit ch over to AM. So from a parents/adults standpoint, what are some reasons to go with AM over green app?

Would also like to mention that we all own iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches. So we are in the Apple ecosystem. I personally plan to get deeper into it, and switching would give me more benefits too.

This usually happens on windows and my TV as well but it will log in after 2 or 3 tries. My phone app is just completely shutting me out now. I tried log in with password too and it's the same

i’m a music genre nerd and i love apple’s editorial playlists, i w they have essential playlists for certain genres (example: pop punk essentials). if you guys could show me some more of these cool playlists and what genres have them that would be great ty :D

I just found out that Mark Hoppus has a new radio show on Apple Music Radio since After School Radio was canceled. I’m not sure when it airs but I’m hyped!

I recently noticed that on iOS 27 Public Beta 1, there seem to be descriptions in the Essential Albums section now. Like small, standalone blurbs, and when you tap on the album there’s a fuller description just like before.

Switched recently 2 months ago and just discovered this today while trying to clear storage/offload apps on my phone today. Pretty neat you can see it organized by artists.

Idk which flair to have for this so correct me if it’s wrong :)

I have been using app,e music for a year and used my headphones on my laptop but i recently bought iems tanchjim bunny 2 dsp, i have a s23 and an ipad pro m1, i saw somehwere that dolby atmos is not good, can someone help me how to get the best experience for me

i have tried on multiple devices and this after i add it to library, it removes itself after like 1 second. i have tried adding other albums to see if it was an internet connection issue but other albums add just fine. anybody see this issue before?

I’ve had Apple Music for about a year now with no issues until now. When listening to Apple Music and I open another app, the volume lowers. The actual volume bar doesn’t lower, but the audio gets quieter. If I close Apple Music and reopen it, the volume goes back to normal, but will just lower again when I go into another app. I have already turned attention aware off and it did nothing. Using an iPhone 14 on iOS 26.5.2

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Sooo if I only just realized that I missed my Replay ‘25 because my listening history was turned off.., will having turned it back on give me the songs that were on my rotation at the time or is that just a lost year of my life? I’m on an iPhone 12 Pro Max if that means anything at all

Hi all,

I’ve never had any issue close to this.
Installed iTunes and later Apple Music to my fresh Windows 11 install and am trying to login to either service, but get a generic “Temporarily unavailable” message on iTunes, and absolutely nothing on Apple Music. It just takes me back to the “try our trial” page.
My Mac and iPhone are working fine.
Scoured the support forums with no help. Also contacted an Apple rep who couldn’t help either.

I’m bewildered, so any ideas would be welcome.
Thanks in advance.

I’ve often noticed that when I’m on Apple Music in the Car or with AirPods on,( anytime I can hear every part of the song) and I have auto mix transitions on for my music, it hiccups sometimes around the 0:15-0:17 mark on the song,

And my theory is, auto mix takes the first 15-30 seconds of any given song and preps it for “auto mix” so if separate it from the middle part of the song, this allows it to match and mix it with the song playing before(previous songs last 30-15 seconds) and because of this dissection, the song hiccups at 0:15-0-17 seconds.

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Right now, I have Beyerdynamic DT900 Pro X headphones paired with an iBasso DC04 Pro, and I use UAPP. I subscribe to Tidal, though I also really like Apple Music. Eventually, however, I’d like to get something like the Hifiman Ananda Nano along with a desktop DAC. Would Apple Music still be worth it for me, given that I can't use UAPP with Apple Music on Android?

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else was having an issue with this.

Since the app update last week my Last Played and Play counts have not been updating for some reason and I'm not sure why. I use these to make playlists so it is slightly annoying that it hasn't updated in almost a week.

I currently use the App on a Samsung s24 phone and use the App also on my Dell Slim 3 Laptop

I contacted support and they suggested I log in and log out of my account and restart my device but nothing has worked. I have turned listening history off and on and nothing still. I also don't thinlk they understood the last played values were what wasnt updating not the library itself.

Thanks

I saw a post from a few years ago mentioning one, but I wondered if there were any more that have come out since then with a longer name.

Does anybody else have this issue after updating to the ios 27 betas where automix and transitions seem like totally disabled despite being enabled in settings?

I’ve been looking to stream certain songs and albums, often from big bands/ensembles, that aren’t available still on Apple Music, even though the streaming service exists for a decade and these albums are/used to be available on iTunes.

Example: Moment of Glory - Scorpions (there’s like 4 different albums just from Scorpions that fall under this category)

Also, there are songs that I had added to my library and downloaded to my iPhone for offline listening, that just greyed out as though they don’t exist on Apple Music anymore. Example: East Hastings - Goodspeed You! Black Emperor

Why does all of this happen? I have songs and albums on my library that are bigger flops than the examples mentioned above, but are still there, so what’s the story with the selective exclusion of (imo underappreciated) songs and albums?

It’s so frustrating that apple doesn’t stand up more for customers who buy something, and then the creator pulls it and reissues it. It just sits there missing, invisibly, until we’re ready to enjoy the purchase and it’s gone.

They say download it, so we do, but the backup doesn’t return downloaded media when you get a new phone.

They say put it on an external device, so we do, and our Time Machine deletes the backup, and because it was removed years ago, when we go to listen, it’s been gone even from our backup for years.

Why can’t we at least get a notice that something was pulled? Or a notice that something is about to be pulled?

It doesn’t sit right.

Can I do something about it?

Baring in mind Song Machine already had an animated cover, so I don’t know why Apple Music did this.

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I need help! I wanna pay for my Apple Music subscription but I use PayPal and it doesn't accept payments via PayPal. Is there anyone willing to receive the money via PayPal and then pay for the subscription for me?

I bought over 100 songs off iTunes song and I can’t even play any on my TV with any of the song I PURCHASED. Only can do it with A SUBSCRIPTION that is ridiculous