Disappointed in Remote changes
I have been a long standing Apple advocate for almost all products. I particularly loved the integrated nature of things even though some protocols are proprietary. iTunes was the most important app and allowed me to share my library with others and also launch and manage all music libraries across our home network and devices. It was easy and a one of a kind product suite.
With the introduction of the streaming Music product Apple continuously tweets and screws with Remote App Library management and overall utility of the integration. I am really disgusted and won’t go into the more granular inconveniences but please just leave it alone! My iTunes library has over 10,000 songs that were transferred from CD’s or purchased through iTunes. Not sure when you keep making it difficult to use, unless of course you are trying to kill historical use to add streaming subscriptions. I assure you, you will NEVER get me to do that.
With the introduction of the streaming Music product Apple continuously tweets and screws with Remote App Library management and overall utility of the integration. I am really disgusted and won’t go into the more granular inconveniences but please just leave it alone! My iTunes library has over 10,000 songs that were transferred from CD’s or purchased through iTunes. Not sure when you keep making it difficult to use, unless of course you are trying to kill historical use to add streaming subscriptions. I assure you, you will NEVER get me to do that.
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McFoster
Used this app for years for multiroom. Never really let me down. One thing I would love to have added though, would be the ability to control the store/Apple Music side on my media PC with this remote app. As in, if I want to discover new music, I can do so through the PC, and not having to preview tracks through iTunes on my phone then add to the library.
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Gets worse each release
As the app is bugging me for a review, here goes.
Every time they mess with this, it gets worse. Now it seems to be unable to play most of my albums in the correct order - it even lists them on the screen with the track numbers in the WRONG order.
The sidebar of artists gets out-of-whack with the right hand pane showing the albums, so tap on one artist and get the preceding artists albums. Great. Bet you couldn’t have found that in QA.
Then there’s the Up Next which you tap on top right, it appears and then mysteriously a few seconds later it sometimes jumps to the top left of the screen (iPad version). What’s that about?
Still no return of the star-rating capability that was stripped out because, eh, who knows...MVP no doubt despite its previous existence.
No ability to access Apple Music being a subscriber - so playing an Apple Music playlist is impossible and if I want to play an album from Apple Music that isn’t in my library, I need to add it in my Music iOS app, then come back to the remote app (linked to my iMac), find the newly added album and play from there to get it streaming on my Airport Express. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.
Really Apple. Sort your QA and dev process and then maybe ask for reviews?
Couldn’t live without some form of remote to my iTunes but really, if another option existed, I’d be all over it.
Every time they mess with this, it gets worse. Now it seems to be unable to play most of my albums in the correct order - it even lists them on the screen with the track numbers in the WRONG order.
The sidebar of artists gets out-of-whack with the right hand pane showing the albums, so tap on one artist and get the preceding artists albums. Great. Bet you couldn’t have found that in QA.
Then there’s the Up Next which you tap on top right, it appears and then mysteriously a few seconds later it sometimes jumps to the top left of the screen (iPad version). What’s that about?
Still no return of the star-rating capability that was stripped out because, eh, who knows...MVP no doubt despite its previous existence.
No ability to access Apple Music being a subscriber - so playing an Apple Music playlist is impossible and if I want to play an album from Apple Music that isn’t in my library, I need to add it in my Music iOS app, then come back to the remote app (linked to my iMac), find the newly added album and play from there to get it streaming on my Airport Express. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.
Really Apple. Sort your QA and dev process and then maybe ask for reviews?
Couldn’t live without some form of remote to my iTunes but really, if another option existed, I’d be all over it.
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The most helpful App
As I’m an aged Apple Music listener I use Remote on my iPhone/iPad to control my iTunes music from my iMac with attached Bose Speakers.
Just work hey?
Why do I need to connect to an iTunes library to connect to a new Apple TV and use the remote. Not a big ask. Also when I go through the hassle of opening a computer no jumping through hoops, why then be temperamental and forget the connected ‘library’ every now and then. When I buy a fridge it doesn’t ask to ‘connect’ to the kettle before it works. No, it just works? Maybe connecting to the ‘library’ is important to some but I think a big chunk of people buying Apple TV just want to be able to use their lpad or phone to hit up Netflix or Stan without having to check if their fridge is feeling ok..... I mean ‘library’. Do you think that might be a lofty aim you could strive for? I mean don’t prioritize it over going to the moon or even Mars or anything, but I think you should put that on your blue sky thinking ultimate aims list. Thanks for your consideration.
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It functions how it used to, but not how it should now.
This App was great for controlling a computer with iTunes or an old AppleTV. You could even control Audio Output to different devices.
Things have changed a lot. Since then; we have have new Apple TV’s and HomePods. AirPlay 2 means you can control different devices together or independently.
New AppleTVs can be controlled using the AppleTV remote App, and HomePods can be controlled using the clunky Home App.
It would be great if this app was resurrected so you could have the control we used to have, but take advantage of the new devices too!
Things have changed a lot. Since then; we have have new Apple TV’s and HomePods. AirPlay 2 means you can control different devices together or independently.
New AppleTVs can be controlled using the AppleTV remote App, and HomePods can be controlled using the clunky Home App.
It would be great if this app was resurrected so you could have the control we used to have, but take advantage of the new devices too!
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Indispensable
Such a simple, yet logical little app that belies its usefulness. I love the ability to control my iTunes music server in my MacBook with this app and to be able to stream music anywhere in the house. Typical Apple design: lean, mean, simple, and as easy and effective as it gets.
My most-used app.
I’ve been using this thing since day one and I find it indispensable. I do miss the party features and wish it was a bit more stable, but it still runs my home audio system.
Some limitations but still essential
I use this app very often, though I wish it could be updated to better integrate with Apple Music.
Not so great
Like everything associated with iTunes or the new Apple Music, the remote app is just so-so. I’ve been using Macs since 1985 and I’d gotten used to great care being paid to what Apple used to call human factors engineering, what we now call user-interface design. itunes’ design was so poor you’d swear it was written by Microsoft. Apple Music is worse, if that’s possible. The Remote app works — if everything is painstakingly set up — most of the time. There are limitations about what you can do with playlists that don’t make sense, especially in a closed environment where everything is designed send coded by one company. A big company. A company with lots of money. Money it seems not to want to spend on getting music streaming right.
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