I didn't even knew that my favorite iPhone feature was listening to the music I want until Apple introduced forced shuffling, playing titles alphabetically and started disturbing built-in music player UX in order to push their online offering.
It's a typical Cook's Apple experience to listen to 10 tracks from different albums, all called "Outro", after album chosen by me finishes playing with a track called "Outro" and is set to repeat.
It's so much worse on macOS Music. The "previous track" button is disabled in "infinity play mode". Not just for going to the previous track but even for replaying the current track. When it's not disabled, its behavior seems to depend on how you started playing the music - sometimes skipping back multiple tracks in an album instead of one at a time. Finally, the "infinite play" toggle is only visible if you play an album or playlist because otherwise the "up next" menu is hidden. Oh yeah, and the whole thing crashes every time I try to search my library - I suspect because of foreign language UTF8 characters in some track titles.
The whole app seems to have been designed by a madman. I miss the bloated, yet functional, iTunes.
You can turn it off in settings somewhere. I really do enjoy albums ending, and think it is a poor UX choice to go to radio mode when an album is complete.
However, for playlists, I think it is nifty, but afaik you can't have it both ways.
It really should be a per playlist toggle at the bottom "continue on radio when all songs in this playlist have finished playing."
You can turn it off with the infinity symbol. As far as UX choice I find radio mode helpful as I'm a painter and my hands are occupied and I'm usually in a focused mode.
When I'm telling Siri to play something, I need to manually open the app every time and push this little button. Like multiple times a day I need to set the "Tim Cook, don't fucking change my music on me" button which I did not had to formerly do.
For me, that's poor UX and fucked up good product (iTunes.app).
> It's a typical Cook's Apple experience to listen to 10 tracks from different albums, all called "Outro", after album chosen by me finishes playing with a track called "Outro" and is set to repeat.
There’s a “infinity” toggle on the song list, which if you turn off stops that behaviour
To each their own. I would only like to have control over shuffling, like not being forced to turn it off several times a day.
I have different kinds of music. When at the gym, classical music is the last genre from my library I'd like to listen. When listening to ambient during work I don't want to suddenly get hard rock or rap. Preferably no vocals at all.
The iTunes.app was capable of playing the music I wanted. Things went sideways when it was renamed to Music.app.
It's a typical Cook's Apple experience to listen to 10 tracks from different albums, all called "Outro", after album chosen by me finishes playing with a track called "Outro" and is set to repeat.