Questions tagged [music.app]
Refers to the built in media player app on iOS and, since Catalina, macOS
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How to delete all music on my iPhone
How do I delete all the music on my iPhone. I tried doing it through iTunes but it says my collection is not managed by iTunes and I don't want to erase and sync because all my apps are nicely backed ...
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How to shuffle all songs in iOS 8.4 music app
In the old version of the music app you could shuffle all songs when songs were selected:
This feature seems to be absent in iOS 8.4 and the new music app:
What are the options for shuffling all ...
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Music ratings on iOS 10
I used to be able to change the rating of a music track on my phone, and they would get downloaded to iTunes when I synched my phone to my MacBook.
They seemed to have changed this in the new iOS, ...
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Can I change the default music player app on my iPhone? If so, how?
I want to change the default music app on my iPhone from Music to Spotify. Is this possible? My first guess is that I would have to jailbreak my phone. Is there anyway to do it without jailbreaking?
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How to stop the Apple Music ads every time I launch the Music app?
Lately, the Music app on my iPhone XR has been showing the "Join Apple Music!" call-to-action interstitial screen pretty much every time I launch it. Usually this happens when I'm in a bad-network ...
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How can I copy Music library from one Mac to another
I am attempting to copy my wife's Music Library to a new user on my iMac.
Update 2021-04-09
My previous attempts failed. I thought this may have been due to attempting to copy from Catalina to Big Sur....
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Can I play my music on the iOS Music app with a sleep timer?
Maybe I’m going crazy, but I'm sure that I could listen to music on my old iPhone 4 and set the Music app to play to a sleep timer. So, if I wanted, I could play music for 30 minutes when I went to ...
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How can I get my entire iTunes Match-based music library to appear on my iPhone?
I have about 12,500 tracks uploaded to iTunes Match. From my desktop and laptop, everything works great. I can see the cloud-based tracks and play them. I can download them to my machines.
When I ...
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How to play music on iPhone via Apple Watch on watchOS 4?
In watchOS 3 the 'Now Playing' complication played music on your phone when you pressed play, unless you changed audio source to the watch.
In watchOS 4 this defaults to the watch, and so far as I ...
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iOS 8.4 Apple Music App: How to shuffle all songs by an artist?
With the complete redesign featuring the new streaming mixin (which I don't use), it seems that when listening to music from my library (stored on my device) I can only shuffle songs within a single ...
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How to disable Apple Radio in iTunes and iOS?
Update: iTunes/Apple Radio is now a paid service only — making it's
removal from clogging up our screens more relevant.
On an iPhone, it's possible to disable Apple Music from cluttering your Music....
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AppleScript and Music
I have created a small AppleScript that queries Music App if it is playing, and if it is then it queries and gets artist and song name. Now I want to query some more information.
Where can I find the ...
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Bluetooth volume resets to a lower level whenever the iOS Music app advances to the next track
While listening to the system Music app on iOS 12.1, I can use the volume buttons on my Bluetooth headphones (BeatsX) to raise or lower the music volume.
However, when the app advances to the next ...
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Music app - half my songs are really quiet, within an album
I've just started using a Mcbook Air(Big Sur, 11.5.1, M1 chipset) after being a Linux/Windows user for years. I brought over my MP3 collection from my old Thinkpad and imported into the Music app.
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transfer music library from iTunes on Mojave to another computer with Apple Music on Monterey
I have one computer running Monterey (Mac Pro) and another one running Mojave (Macbook pro). I want to transfer my iTunes music library (all audio files and playlist and rating information) from the ...
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How to prevent music from playing when I connect my iPhone to my car?
Whenever I connect my iPhone to my car via cable, it starts the music player and always on the very same content. If I use siri, as soon as it's done, music will also start even if it wasn't playing ...
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How can I remove songs from the Music app on my iPhone?
How do I edit songs that are in the Music app on my iPhone 5? I need to delete some songs that were automatically synced that I don't want.
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How can I clear unwanted music off of my iphone?
My iphone shows me a variety of songs that I no longer want to have on it. iTunes does not show those items under 'Music' under the phone. I sync -- they're still there. What do I need to do to get ...
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Compare 2 folders and move 'not duplicates' to a new folder
Folder 1(210GB) contains the contents from Folder 2(198GB) plus some extra files.
All files are music.
Looking for a way to find out what is in Folder 1 that isn't in Folder 2.
Hope that makes sense.
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