[MacOS] Longplay won't play music downloaded from Apple Music when low data mode is on
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ACB
Steps to reproduce:
- In Apple Music, download any album for offline listening.
- When the download is complete, enable low data mode for the current Wi-Fi network
- In Longplay, attempt to play the album
Expected: The album plays
Actual: Longplay shows an error: "Playback from Apple Music is not supported when Low Data Mode is active..."
The album plays as expected in Apple Music.
Adrian Schönig
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Adrian Schönig
Hi ACB,
Does it work if you restart Longplay before the last step? There's a known limitation with the Apple framework that reports file paths of downloaded files: it doesn't refresh its data while Longplay is running, but it should provide that file path after Longplay restarts and playback from that file should work then—even in Low Data mode.
On the issue that Apple Music playback itself fails in Low Data mode even though it's fine in the Music app: I reported that to Apple two years ago (
FB13418245
) but it's still open unfortunately.