This is why the files that you buy from Apple work, but any files you download from other vendors, or from CDs you've ripped yourself, won't work.įortunately, there is a solution to defeat Apple's anti-competitiveness, but it will take some work on your part. Of course, this means that the Apple Watch will only correctly play files that have the plID tag. You know, because Apple is the only place in the world to purchase music and every album ever made is available from Apple and why would you even think about buying your music from anyone else but Apple? While the Music apps on the Mac/iPhone/iPad all group by album artist + album name (aART + alb), which is a sensible solution, the Apple Watch developers (in their infinite wisdom) apparently decided to make their version of the app group by plID, which is a unique numeric ID that Apple uses to identify the album in the Apple Music (iTunes) store. Your AAC files contain MPEG-4 audio metadata which tells your playback software how they should be grouped. ![]() I would likely never buy another Apple Watch or recommend it to anyone unless this is fixed.Īpple's engineers are obviously never going to figure this out so I'll give you the actual problem and its solution. And, seeing that such a problem remains unfixed after a year, it is not irrational to assume that it may never be fixed, especially if the company has an incentive to ignore the bug so that more consumers may be encouraged to buy their music subscription service that's assuming the company did not plan all this on purpose in the first place. The number of steps required to achieve the intended function is absurd considering the totally basic nature of the function. Opinion: Apple Watch is currently an insanely bad solution for my needs - by far the most unfriendly music playback tool I have ever encountered, considering how much work is needed compared to probably every mp3 player in history. I didn't know consumers need to be actual programmers in order to do something as complex as playing a song on an Apple device. * write my own script to automate the process for all my files. * find another command line tool like the aforementioned forked version of AtomicParsley (which is no longer available), or develop such a tool myself * make an m4a copy for all my music (huge wasted space) To get my full library to work, I'd need to: Unfortunately, this is the only way I've so far been able to get playback to work in more than a year. this is an INSANE method when dealing with more than a few albums. album covers of the added m4a files don't work on my Apple Watch, even though they're visible on iPhone ![]() So the better method is to Add a "plID" field directly and enter an album ID value, and then it would work. If the actual field was just "Album ID" then it'd fail. The Kid3 tagger program was actually converting the field "Album ID" (as typed) into "plID" (as stored). Click to expand.I found out why this didn't work.
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