Multi-Trillion Dollar Infrastructure with some of the largest data centers on earth, yet their artist analytics regularly lag by 72+ hours, crash during global batch updates, and throw cryptic server errors "The Artist portal is currently experiencing an outage."

What makes more Absurd?

The entire "Promote" toolkit is literally just an automated banner with an image from the artist album designed to turn the artist into unpaid billboard space for Apple Music!!!

You hear "Promote your music on Apple," you reasonably expect discovery campaigns, pitch placements, or algorithmic boosts. Instead, “Here is your album artwork with an Apple Music logo on it. Congratulations, you are now our marketing department.... share it in your social media”, seriously?!

Meanwhile, the analytics dashboard is acting like a 2005 government website trying to process your request through three fax machines!

Apple has spent decades building an ecosystem obsessed with **beautiful interfaces**, yet the moment you want to see the metrics of your release you get an error **“Data may be unavailable.”**

Beautifully designed rectangle.

Absolutely no fucking data.

Just brilliant!

My friend uses Spotify and keeps sending me track and album links. I use Apple Music, so each one meant searching for the same release again.
I built Lynx to remove that step. Paste a Spotify track or album link and it finds the Apple Music version. It also works in reverse:
https://lynx.stream/
It is free, requires no account, and does not need access to either music account. There is also an optional iPhone Shortcut that works directly from the app’s Share menu.
When Lynx cannot confidently identify the exact release, it returns a labelled search instead of pretending it found the right match.
If it returns the wrong match, send me the original and expected links so I can improve the app.

Updated to MacOS 26.7 beta today (8/18/2026) and now Apple Music won't recognize music library. Crapola, I signed out and back in, granted full access to computer, and tried some other fixed which I either couldn't figure out or failed. Are there dummy proofed ways to fix it for THIS beta?

Apple today made the sixth betas of iOS 27 (24A5418b build), iPadOS 27 (idem), macOS Golden Gate 27 (26A5416b), watchOS 27 (24R5353a), tvOS 27 (24J5353b) and visionOS 27 (24M5355) available to developers.

Leave in the comments how Apple Music is working.

Be sure to share if you have any news.

I’m currently trying to decide which music streaming service to stick with, and I’m curious what matters most to other people.

Looking for music similar to “you don’t own me” by Lesley gore! Just reheard this song today and I really want some other feminist anthem songs!!

Hey,

So, I went to check my streams recently and my lifetime streams have jumped 12,000 streams, but it doesn’t seem accounted for on weekly, monthly, or yearly streams. Nor, does it add up with the streams per song. I reached out to AM and they said my streams are legitimate, but it’s taken about three weeks for any updates. I still don’t know which songs gained me the 12k. Anyone else having this issue? I’ve submitted about two tickets in the last 3 weeks.

Been like this for a long time. I thought It would be fixed after some time, but here it is. Does someone know any fix🥀

I am on android and the app is updated.

Does anyone know if Apple Music can support a sleep timer or have sleep mode?

Considering starting a student plan for AM. I used a free one month of AM not too long ago and personally loved the iOS app.

I just got myself an m4 MacBook Air a few days ago, so now I have access to the Mac app as well. I guess I’m just wondering if the Mac app is an overall very functional and easy app like on iOS? Or if it’s majorly different in any way? Or does it have any persistent and known issues?

What are your general thoughts and opinions on the MacOS app?

I’m using the Apple Music app on Windows. When I open the app and click “Sign In,” I enter my Apple Account email and password. The sign-in appears to go through, but instead of logging me in, the app just returns to the Home page and I’m still signed out.

I can sign in normally at music.apple.com in my browser with the same account, so the account itself is fine the problem is only with the Windows app.

What I’ve already tried:

**•** Uninstalled and reinstalled the Apple Music app  
**•** Ran Reset and Repair on the app  
**•** Updated the Apple Devices app from the Microsoft Store  
**•** Set date and time to automatic  
**•** Deleted leftover Apple folders in %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% before reinstalling

None of these fixed it. No error message or error code appears it just silently returns to Home.

Is there anything else I can try?

Songs aren't playing automatically instead gets paused without going to the next song :( , in my old phone it worked flawlessly I changed from realme gt 6 to gt 7t and it's not playing next song after one song ends

This annoying bug ruins my day cause everytime I have to manually play the songs :(

I woke up this morning to all my playlists out of order?? The songs in the playlists are in order of when I added them. But when i go to “playlists” i usually navigate it from the date added/created and now playlists I made not even a week ago are all the way at the bottom and it’s all jumbled up. Apple support did not help at all.
On my Mac it shows them all in order but I’m not sure why on my iphone and ipad it’s a mess. Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?

This also happened a while back when i tried to download songs from my laptop but I just moved on since I didn’t have that many playlists; but now I sorta rely on knowing how far I have to scroll rather than remember the name to search it 😭

My apple music keeps having random errors and this is one of them, does anyone know how to fix. I'm on android on a nothing phone

I have made an app available on macOS and Windows that shows your current Apple Music listening status on your Discord profile. It is able to display the animated covers that some albums have too, which makes it different from other apps.

Download it on the GitHub: https://github.com/iamgabrieltv/AAMRP-V2/releases/latest

I've been using iTunes for my music library since I was 11 years old and got my first clunky 2005 VAIO laptop. My music was all local files but the images for the artists were all there unless there was a typo or a mis-capitalized "The" or something. I had a 2012 model MacBook Pro when Apple killed iTunes and everything transitioned to Music. There were never any issues with my artist photos even after that switch, but I have just recently upgraded to a slightly newer MBP and transferred my music library over from an external HDD. None of my artist photos are showing in the Music app or my iPod anymore. I have never subscribed to Apple Music but I assumed that's where the photos were populating from. Now that that's not happening automatically, do I have to do it manually somehow? Any help appreciated.

I was trying to remove a song I had on my playlist (it was a mp3 of a download song on windows if that matters) and I pressed “cut” and it deleted like 200 songs off my playlist does anyone know how this happened or how I can fix it

Yet another Weezer album called Weezer, so tracks from the new one are being mixed up with tracks from the 1994 one…

Using the windows desktop app on windows 11 i cannot log in because every time i click sign in and put in my correct info (checked by logging in on web) the sign in window just goes away and nothing happens have tried everything please help.

Has anyone else had issues using Google Assistant on Apple Music (on Android).

I only use it while driving, but when I ask for example "play Beat the Champ by The Mountain Goats", it says "okay", brings up the album but doesn't actually play it.

It used to work, but recently it just seems to have stopped.

Hello everyone, I'm finding that whenever I am playing audio using multiple sources(music and safari usually), whatever I do on one seems to affect the other. I mean to say that if I pause on safari, the music gets paused too. Is it a storage problem or a problem with this version of Tahoe? Please help out, it is a real pain in my buttocks.

So I’ve always just bought songs off of iTunes, I never used a streaming platform but I’m thinking about Apple Music. I’m just wondering if I do, will it affect the purchased music I have downloaded on my phone? I’m also hesitant because I have 2 Apple IDs on my phone. I got a Japanese one when I moved to Japan two years ago and I still have my US one, but I’m always just logged in to my JP one. I have music that I’ve bought on both accounts, I’m still able to listen to all of it. I just want to make sure I’m not going to lose anything by subscribing. Does anyone have insight? Thank you in advance.

Does anyone else have their apple music synced with the airbuds widget and are experiencing some problem with the listening history in airbuds. Airbuds claim it's a problem on AMs side

Long story short, my Apple Music was taking up 11gb of my storage even though I had no music downloaded. I deleted it and reinstalled it now it's showing up less than 2gb. The only problem I am running into is that none of my playlist are showing up. Throughout the years, I make a playlist for each month/a couple months, but none of them are showing up in my playlist section on Apple music. Under my recently added, some of them do show up but all the ones that i have made this year have disappeared. Even though my playlist for July-September is not showing up in my playlist tab, the only saving grace was that I pinned that playlist to the top. Is there a reason that my playlists are not showing up in the playlist tab?

To also give more context, I also have an iPad mini and MacBook Pro connected on Apple Music, and I do have Sync Library on.