Products · Broad category
Music apps
Raised as a usability problem by 31 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 27 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Switching from Apple Music songs to Spotify doesn't work wellUnreviewed
20082026- Switching from Apple Music songs to Spotify songs doesn't work well2026-10-23
- Music app defaults to Apple Music and needs a couple of clicks to change2019-10-08
- Tabbing and searching between several music shop sites and Spotify on a phone is frustrating2018-06-24
Fails to simply list all the user's songsUnreviewed
20082026- Various Artists albums show one listing per artist, so playing the whole album is frustrating2025-05-23
- Music apps fail to simply list all the user's songs2021-10-28
- Song list grid got worse in modern music apps2021-08-10
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 32 complaints
- Switching from Apple Music songs to Spotify songs doesn't work well2026-10-23
- No obvious search bar; user expected one to start finding music beyond suggestions2026-10-23
- Local library keeps being pushed toward Apple Music; iPhone syncing via Finder is glitchy2026-10-16
- Various Artists albums show one listing per artist, so playing the whole album is frustrating2025-05-23
- Music app shows a modal Apple Music advertisement every time it launches2025-03-18
- Good music is extremely hard to find without scouring niche subreddits and SoundCloud2023-06-10
- New music modal overlaps other modals on the left side of the screen2023-01-30
- Music app interface is a mess, harder to use than old iTunes2023-01-20
- Needs three clicks to confirm whether shuffle is on or off2022-01-17
- Music apps fail to simply list all the user's songs2021-10-28
- Drag-and-drop music transfer to iPhone fails with an unexplained refusal2021-09-22
- Song list grid got worse in modern music apps2021-08-10
- Dragging audio files from Music into an app does nothing, though the drop icon appears2020-11-12
- Pressing play with nothing playing unexpectedly opens the Music app2020-05-30
- No volume control on the site, forcing users to fiddle with master volume2019-12-12
- User's music files were lost after the Catalina release2019-10-22
- Music app defaults to Apple Music and needs a couple of clicks to change2019-10-08
- Tabbing and searching between several music shop sites and Spotify on a phone is frustrating2018-06-24
- Touch and library-based music apps are hard to use without looking, unlike old button-based players with folders2017-02-14
- The website is too slow to load2016-11-01
- Can't find the right timing settings, so many music games are unplayable2016-07-19
- Unclear which iTunes file to select and what the interface does with it2012-09-24
- Select File button label is unclear; "What have I missed?" button is confusing and hides helper text2012-09-24
- Welcome dialog buttons are not recognisable as buttons2011-11-07
- After picking a search field, typing hides which field is being searched2011-01-15
- Volume controls look like the other controls and are hard to find2011-01-14
- Autocomplete shows results but the find music button says not found2011-01-05
- Layout feels too complex, making the page hard to navigate2008-04-03
- Mini-player is confusing, next is a tiny text link, and playlist queue is unclear2008-04-03
- Bright multicolored text is hard to read and fades into the background2008-04-03
- Heart icons look unfavourited, confusing given instructions mention red hearts2008-04-01
- Can't find the like hearts and doesn't understand what the embedded song links mean2008-04-01