"What's Playing" does not recognize official APM music

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The “What’s Playing” feature considers officially licensed, public APM music to be unverified, as seen here (even showing the exact song on the creator store)

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(this screenshot was taken on March 8th, at exactly 22:02:24 CET)

This can be replicated by joining a place that is using APM music, and then clicking on the “Music” button

While I’m unsure as to what it means by unverified audio, audio from APM music should certainly not be considered as unverified

Expected behavior

I expect it to look roughly like this if verified/public music is playing (which most certainly should be the case for APM music)

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For me, every single music that is played inside a game is “unverified”. I have no idea how this system is suppose to work but it doesn’t seem to function at all

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They introduced it a little over 3 weeks ago yet it’s seemingly completely nonfunctional

If a feature is gonna be released just to be broken, why even release it in the first place? It’s just more hamburger menu we have to scroll through currently

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So far has there been any update to this? I ask because I have custom music within my experience, and I’d love to give credit using this little feature if possible lol

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I know, I hate it so much. This feature needs to be removed. Please get rid of the Music Menu “What’s Playing”.

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So it kind of works now for some music but like this whole unverified audio not being considered at all thing pretty much makes it useless, even if the launch wasn’t a mess

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Any update on this? It’s a piece of UI that does nothing. This is not UX-friendly, nor for the developers.

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Nope, Nothing at all

It’s just a very janky feature that silently appeared, didn’t recognize official music at first, presumably still does so for some music and even if it were to be fully functional, the feature only working on audio that it considers verified makes it useless, so you’re better off manually crediting any audio or music you use

For all intents and purposes, it’s just more hamburger menu you have to scroll through

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Hey there @Wheatly99 - I joined Retail Tycoon 2 recently to see if I can reproduce this bug but observed that APM music was showing up in the What’s Playing UI. Can I ask you to re-test and see if you are still encountering this issue? Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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Yeah idk what’s going on here

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Do those supposedly unverified audios actually belong to APM? I did a manual cross-reference once, my only guess might be that it might be redacting itself on certain terms?

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Gotcha, thanks for letting us know.

The What’s Playing feature only surfaces audio that has shared its ISRC with Roblox (this is noted in the official announcement as well). While APM is a huge contributor to audio assets on Creator Store, not all of their tracks have ISRC. Thus, some of theirs will show as unverified.

TLDR; this is not a bug and the feature is working as expected. I will be marking this as “By Design” in this case. Let me know if you have any further questions :slight_smile:

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I feel like such information could have been more properly conveyed instead of just being randomly thrown into an update post deep down in the replied