Apple Adds New 'Guided Tours' Video Section to Apple Music Site

[MacRumors]

In just a few short days, the first Apple Music trial periods will begin ending for those who signed up for the trial on June 30, Apple Music's official launch date. As that end date approaches, Apple has updated its Apple Music website to add a series of Guided Tour videos to walk people through using the service.

These Guided Tour videos will show you how to discover new music, hear recommendations from experts, create playlists, connect with artists, and listen to all the music you love on all your devices. Watch now.

There are seven different Guided Tour videos, which cover a range of topics. Three of the videos are dedicated to the Apple Music subscription service, walking people through using the For You section of Apple Music for personalized recommendations, the New feature that has music curated by Apple Music editors, and Apple Music Playlists, also curated by Apple Music editors.

There are also videos on using Beats 1 Radio and Apple Music Connect, Apple's artist-focused social networking feature. The final two videos cover adding songs from the Apple Music Library to a user's own music library, and creating Playlists.

Apple has not yet uploaded its Guided Tour videos for music to YouTube, but it's likely the videos will be added to the channel in the near future. For now, the tutorial videos can be watched directly on Apple's site.

Update: Apple has added all of the Apple Music Guided Tour videos to its YouTube channel. Links to each video are listed below.

- Apple Music Playlists
- My Playlists
- My Music
- Connect
- Radio
- New
- For You

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[Razeus]

It wouldn't be needed if that app wasn't such a mess.

 

[AngerDanger]

Gotta love how they're spun as "Guided Tours" instead of tutorial/how-to/explanation videos. It's like we're about to explore some scenic venues instead of being taught how to navigate a clunky UI.

 

[blairh]

Apple Music ruined the UI to play your locally stored songs. Thank God for Ecoute.

 

[nutjob]

Does the guided tour offer you a chance to unsubscribe at the end when you realize it's not worth the money?

 

[malexandria]

Apple's UI Team failed if you need a guided tour to figure out how to a music streaming app that everyone else but beats has managed to figure out how to design.

 

[LordQ]

It wouldn't be needed if that app wasn't such a mess.

To be honest it isn't a big mess, just the New tab because it's cluttered with new songs, top songs, week selection, featured artists and whatnot.

 

[rizzo41999]

I still can't forgive them for what they did to locally stored music. UI is all centered around Apple Music, which I won't be subscribing to.

 

[TMRJIJ]

Apple's UI Team failed if you need a guided tour to figure out how to a music streaming app that everyone else but beats has managed to figure out how to design.

Didn't they have a guided tour for WatchOS, and similar tours for iOS, . . . and OS X

 

[Four oF NINE]

Yeah, I'm going to stick with my personally curated iTunes music collection, rather than sign up with a subscription service.

I'm old school that way, I prefer owning my music.

 

[attila]

To be honest it isn't a big mess, just the New tab because it's cluttered with new songs, top songs, week selection, featured artists and whatnot.

Compared to the old UI where it was ONE TAP to go to either artists, albums, or all songs - it's terrible. Also, the old UI let you choose which tabs to have at the bottom - I added "genres" to the mix.

Now if I disable radio and connect I have three tabs - two mostly useless.



I rage quit and went 100% Spotify now.

 

[Alumeenium]

re-write the broken damned App instead of making a tutorial

 

[iLoveDeveloping]

Well after using it now for this long I'd just like to say it sucks. I'll be cancelling and happily going back to my locally stored music. No thanks Apple this is so not worth paying for!

 

[639051]

I had to cancel my iTunes Match account (no use for it with Apple Music) but when they did that .. they for some reason canceled my Apple Music account and lost all of my playlists. I wanted to cry .. first time I have actually spent time to build playlists.

 

[millerlite]

Lots of hate here for a service that I found to be pretty great. I just don't like paying a subscription for music since I own a pretty great library. Still, if I had the $10 a month to spare right now, I'd definitely be on board.

 

[Glideslope]

Too little, too late Eddy. Needs a complete interface redo.

 

[mrgraff]

First, spare me the "the world isn't America-only" lecture, secondly did anyone else think the narrator of theses guided tours has bit of a mumble to her accent? It was a just a touch distracting and I can't place why exactly.

 

[edifus]

Didn't they have a guided tour for WatchOS, and similar tours for iOS, . . . and OS X

You know, I would be willing to allow this some credit if Apple Music were an operating system for a personal computer, new type of cellular telephone device or wearable tech.

 

[pcmacgamer]

enjoyed my trial a little but will not be renewing

 

[bbeagle]

It wouldn't be needed if that app wasn't such a mess.

The app does so much, that it's complicated - a steep learning curve. It's not a mess once you understand it. The first few days I had difficulties, now it's easy, a breeze to work my way around everything.

Apple's UI Team failed if you need a guided tour to figure out how to a music streaming app that everyone else but beats has managed to figure out how to design.

Everyone else has NOT figured out how to make it easy. Amazon Prime Music is a holy mess, for example.... and it offers LESS music and LESS features, like no music videos. Pandora is fine, but again, it offers LESS.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Some vids are up.

 

[macs4nw]

I still can't forgive them for what they did to locally stored music. UI is all centered around Apple Music, which I won't be subscribing to.

Especially different versions playing.

 

[dlondon]

I quite like the service and will probably continue for now. I bought a discounted iTunes voucher so it will cost slightly less for me. I've tried other services but prefer Apple Music even with the faults.

1. It would be better if the playlists had enough tracks (some only have a few tracks but that might be a UK thing).
2. I would also prefer if the app carried on playing where it left it. It frequently goes back to the landing page.
3. I miss have the store aspect when you can see what's available. It feels more like a selected list at times.
4. I had hoped iTunes Match would be included.

 

[a.gomez]

they should just fix the actual App.

 

[magicman32]

Yeah, I'm going to stick with my personally curated iTunes music collection, rather than sign up with a subscription service.

I'm old school that way, I prefer owning my music.

I've always been confused by comments like this. Others have mentioned this too. I have a perfectly curated collection of over 20,000 songs. Love my collection. Still impossible to own everything you might be slightly interested in (in my world anyway). This is a great way (for me) to fill in the gaps of things I've wanted to hear or buy but for whatever reason, never got around to it (same for new releases).

You CAN do both. It isn't like a house or a car. You can own and rent music concurrently and I'm as old school as they come. I've dropped 80 bucks on vinyl this month with more pre-ordered for next month. Both working in concert is a. Eautiful thing and is cheaper than buying EVERYTHING you think you might wanna listen to.

*Full disclosure: I subscribed to Google Play Music when it first launched for 7.99. It's great (UI is ok). If Apple fixed the uploading of your own collection that they don't offer I'd certainly consider switching. But it didn't work so well when I first tried it. Never bothered to see if they fixed that.