Fix Apple Music - Hear, hear!

Despite having used Macs since their first release and iTunes from its beginnings to the current version, for the last year or two I have become increasingly discontented with Apple Music.

I now find its operations almost mystical and using it so frustrating that I have been arduously searching for an alternative but, unfortunately, without success.

I liken the successive changes of ITunes into the mess we have now to the dripping of Aperture and modifications to iPhoto that include such nonsense as automatic addition of 'faces' to my photo collection.

Perhaps I could find reasonable alternatives if I was financially flush. Unfortunately, in this regard, I am a fixed and low income pensioner and so need very inexpensive or free alternatives.

I have always welcomed and praised the inclusion of all commonly used applications within the MacOS or with only a rare need to depend on supplemental applications. Now, I must agree with you that perhaps it is time for Apple to separate its applications from its OS - it could still include them with any purchase of an Apple machine.

If that's not the answer - and I'm not a programmer or technically knowledgeable so perhaps there are good reasons not to do it, then can Apple please at least fix up the anomalies, confusions and mystical operation of some Music options, such as the way it handles duplicates, for instance.

I am on the point of tearing my hair out, retrieving my vinyl, cassette and CD collection from cold storage and living in the past until my days are over. Enjoying music seemed so much simpler then and yet, to my mind, it shouldn't.

Thanks for your article. ☮️