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Apple Debuts 'This Week on Apple Music' With Weekly Highlights

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Apple today introduced a new Apple Music feature called This Week on Apple Music, which is designed to provide a break down of the five biggest things happening across Apple Music each week.

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Apple says that it will provide highlighted stories with album suggestions, playlists, videos, radio episodes, interviews, and more.

Today's recommendations include the BTS: Butter Dance Party playlist, an interview with Jennifer Lopez, a short film, and several radio episodes.


This Week on Apple Music content can be accessed using the Apple Music app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

Article Link: Apple Debuts 'This Week on Apple Music' With Weekly Highlights
 
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Stevez67 said:
Apple Music promos music that isn't my cuppa tea, but I suppose they have the data to I.D. their most valuable demographic. 🤷‍♂️
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Not to 'I.D.' just know what's mostly selected in terms of sheer numbers. safest algo to create and works best without privacy concerns, even if not all genres get highlighted unfortunately for some of us.
 
Nice to see new features. For some reason Apple Music does not resonate with me as well as Spotify. Gave it a try couple of times but I keep coming back to Spotify.
 
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This would be cool if they did something like this within genres; I'd give something like this in Electronic a try. Although even then I assume it'd be almost exclusively vocals based electronic, and that's not my thing. I don't need or want lyrics; only very rarely I'll listen to some of that. I'm sure it's too much to ask, but I'd take something monthly - here's what was new in IDM for July, for example. (yeah there's radio and playlists and I use them, but a time based thing would be nice as well)
 
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This week in Apple Music: How we continue to screw up the user experience one IOS update at a time. I hope they fix the 15 second thing because it is starting to piss me off and my annual subscription ends on the 31st.
 
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This is all well and good, but I’d really like to see an overhaul of the UI. It’s not so much ugliness or bugginess so much as kludginess. I’m thinking of hard lines between your library and Apple’s, inability to add a song to a playlist unless you sync your whole library, difficulty returning to playlists, difficulty exploring a playing genre or artist, and there’s a lot more. I’m not a Spotify customer nor will I be, but I’ve used it and it’s simply better.
 
Kabeyun said:
This is all well and good, but I’d really like to see an overhaul of the UI. It’s not so much ugliness or bugginess so much as kludginess. I’m thinking of hard lines between your library and Apple’s, inability to add a song to a playlist unless you sync your whole library, difficulty returning to playlists, difficulty exploring a playing genre or artist, and there’s a lot more. I’m not a Spotify customer nor will I be, but I’ve used it and it’s simply better.
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I used Spotify and liked it but then switched to Apple Music after it came out, so it’s been a while since I’ve used Spotify’s UI. If Spotify is simply better today, what keeps you on Apple Music? For me it’s the integration with everything I already own that isn’t streaming. I like having everything all in one place - streaming, purchased iTunes albums, and stuff I’ve ripped myself.
 
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After a monthly trying to sort out the buggy Apple Music app I've been forced back to Spotify. Can't believe how bad it was.. I really wanted to be on lossless but it was nearly unusable. 'Downloaded' tracks stopping at 15 seconds when I am not on wifi, music stopping whenever the screen goes to lock mode. Deleted reinstalled, redownload songs nothing works.
 
I also seem to get random album representation even for famous artists.
For some artists I don't get some albums in the discography section (the album themselves are available if searched for manually), for some I get a random order in the album releases.
Exploring new discographies is a mess.

One thing I can say, though, is I love apple playlists
 
michaelant said:
I used Spotify and liked it but then switched to Apple Music after it came out, so it’s been a while since I’ve used Spotify’s UI. If Spotify is simply better today, what keeps you on Apple Music? For me it’s the integration with everything I already own that isn’t streaming. I like having everything all in one place - streaming, purchased iTunes albums, and stuff I’ve ripped myself.
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Like you, software integration, hardware integration, library integration, good catalog. I just wish the UI were better.
 
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Apple today introduced a new Apple Music feature called This Week on Apple Music, which is designed to provide a break down of the five biggest things happening across Apple Music each week.

apple-music-weekly.jpg

Apple says that it will provide highlighted stories with album suggestions, playlists, videos, radio episodes, interviews, and more.

Today's recommendations include the BTS: Butter Dance Party playlist, an interview with Jennifer Lopez, a short film, and several radio episodes.


This Week on Apple Music content can be accessed using the Apple Music app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

Article Link: Apple Debuts 'This Week on Apple Music' With Weekly Highlights
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I’m not surprised, but there’s too much focus on pop and hip hop stars. How about including music with actual musicians playing real physical instruments?
 
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