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• Fastpotify

  Apple Music has native clients on macOS and Windows (the latter being a greenfield WinUI app rather than based on iTunes heritage). No native Linux app, but unlike Spotify they actually allow third party clients to exist and even furnish a library for devs to use, and so there are third party clients like Cider[0] exist on Linux. It also has a web app that can be installed as a PWA. [0]: https://cider.sh. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

  Looks cool. There’s also Cider, I use it on Linux https://cider.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• How iTunes Is Changing on PC

  It's basically a open source frontend for Apple Music that works on Linux and Windows. It's what I use to listen to my Apple Music songs on Linux, and it's amazing. [1]: https://cider.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Apple Music/Windows 11 still completely sucks!

  Use the web version or cider , I use cider and it’s pretty cool, it has some extra features like audio enhancement and themes. Source: about 3 years ago

• Apple Music/Windows 11 still completely sucks!

  Try Cider! Someone recommended it to me and it's been so much better than using iTunes so far. https://cider.sh/. Source: about 3 years ago

• Apple Music MacOs App

  Hey, I’ve hade the problem for a long and I thankfully found a amazing 3rd party solution. It’s called Cider and you can find it here. Cider I hope this satisfies you :). Source: about 3 years ago

• AM UI alternative on MacOS?

  Are there any alternatives to the Music.app for MacOS, similar to Cider for Windows? Source: about 3 years ago

• Apple needs to redesign the desktop app

  If you’re on windows. Check this out. It’s a beautiful design and works just as good as you’d expect it to. Source: over 3 years ago

• The same could be said about video game launchers

  Apple music will do up to 192khz 24bit on iPhone and the interface is pretty nice, you can listen at spotify quality (320kbps?) on pc with Cinder which also has a pretty good interface. Source: over 3 years ago

• We need a more intuitive and modern AM desktop client

  I agree. For now, try this: https://cider.sh. Source: over 3 years ago

• Which music streaming app has the best user interface and in app features?

  For Apple Music maybe you can try Cider. The windows version of Apple Music is very bad, but development is in progress. Source: over 3 years ago

• iTunes substitute?

  Cider Is such a good alternative for the music app / iTunes. And cross-platform too! Source: over 3 years ago

• After hearing my Genelecs, my girlfriend got speakers.

  She’s on 10 still so she can’t use this but she can use this. Source: over 3 years ago

• Tidal confirms MQA will continue to be available on the platform

  i’ve been using the cider app to access apple music on computer for a while now! It works good https://cider.sh/. Source: over 3 years ago

• No Lossless Option For Linux Users

  Just like what the title said, I'm a Linux user. I love Apple Music and just migrated from Spotify recently. I love Apple Music on my phone because it provides me with lossless and Hi-Res lossless audio quality. Unfortunately, it's a different story on my Linux laptop. I use Kubuntu 22.10 and Linux Mint 21.1 and can access Apple Music web player, but there is no option to change the audio quality to lossless. Then... Source: over 3 years ago

• Windows Music App

  It works pretty good for me, but crashes sometimes. There is an alternative app you could try until they sort things out that is called Cider. Source: over 3 years ago

• Apple Music on windows without iTunes- Cider appreciation post

  Link: https://cider.sh/ . Its available on the Windows-Store (beta) (paid) or GitHub (beta) (free). Source: over 3 years ago

• Music app all my playlists from 20 years has been jumbled up

  All I can suggest is the sometimes-maligned-for-community-reasons Cider, which is an Electron based application - Apple have never made Apple Music APIs work on macOS, so the only option is to hack around with JavaScript and the web APIs (yes, you read that right - there is no native developer interface on macOS for Apple Music; that's how much Tim Cook doesn't give a fuck about Macs). This means no lossless... Source: over 3 years ago

• Apple Music boosts streaming music revenue to record $13.3 billion in 2022; vinyl outpaces CDs for first since 1987

  Did you try this third party player Cider. It’s open source has a bunch of cool features and works significantly better than the Apple Music Web player. Source: over 3 years ago