2024-02-07 Apple killed music on the move, for me

I was thinking about joining the Tangara crowdfunding. It's a kind of iPod, but better in that it is all open. Yay!

Tangara

But then I realized something: Having an iPhone made listening to music such a shit show that I basically stopped and switched my entire phone-based audio entertainment to podcasts. Because podcast clients are great (at least iCatcher is) where as Apple Music is a pain. Having used iTunes when it was cool until it was unusable, and then realizing what a pain the weird AAC formats on the files were, and the DRM on some of them, preventing me from playing them on other machines I owned. I was so angry.

iCatcher

In a fit of hate I decided I was going to move all my pictures out of iPhotos and all my music out of iTunes and never go back. And I did. And so the Apple Music app died, and I guess no alternatives were allowed on the App Store because Apple is great like that, and so when the iPod classic I had with Rockbox installed finally died, all I was left with was podcasts on the iPhone.

move all my pictures out of iPhotos

Rockbox

finally died

And so now I don't even know whether I want to listen to music any more while I'm on the move.

Apple killed music on the move, for me.

At home it's a different story, of course, but Tangara is a portable music player.

I wish Tangara the best of luck.

​#Apple #Copyright #DRM ​#Copyright #DRM ​#DRM

**2024-02-27**. I joined the Kickstarter. Not because I have a terribly good feeling about it but because I remember wanting a portable audio player and I recently found, once again, that I really hate the Apple Music app.

**2024-04-12**. Tangara forum.

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