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Apple Music Available on Roku Starting Today

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Roku today announced that Apple Music will be available on its streaming media platform worldwide starting later today.

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Apple Music will be available as an app through the Channel Store on TVs connected to a Roku streaming player and on built-in Roku TVs sold by brands like TCL and Hisense. Apple Music subscribers will have full access to over 90 million songs available on the streaming service, in addition to playlists, radio stations, and other features.

Roku has expanded its integration with Apple over the last few years by rolling out HomeKit and AirPlay 2 support to select devices in late 2020 and by adding an Apple TV+ button to some Roku remotes in the United States last year.

Apple Music is also available on Android, the PlayStation 5, select Samsung and LG smart TVs, Amazon Echo and Google Nest speakers, and more.

Article Link: Apple Music Available on Roku Starting Today
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/02/apple-music-launching-on-roku/
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I hope the Apple Music app wasn't created by the same developers as the Apple TV+ app. The Apple TV+ app needs to get fixed soon. There are problems with the subtitles: try watching Pachinko, which has subtitles in three different colours, to designate the spoken language - these do not work correctly. Rewind is slow or non-response. I gave up using the app
 
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mizzoucat said:
I really wish Apple made a decent music service.
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I’m always excited when Apple decides to play country music on what’s supposed to be a metal station. Top notch. I’d settle for a “never, ever, under any circumstances play this song on this station” option but cant even get that.

Don’t have a Roku anymore, but options are good.
 
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FoxBJK said:
I really wish Apple made a soundbar. I like my Roku version but I'd much rather have something with Apple's software built in.
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Ditto, I got the Roku Soundbar when the HomePod was discontinued. I was always expecting/hoping the next HomePod (non mini) was going to add AppleTV functionality and audio in capabilities.
 
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I wish companies wouldn't issue a press release announcing that a product "is now available globally" when it's not yet available. At the end of the first paragraph, it does say "later today," contradicting the first sentence.

I don't see it yet, either on the TV or on Roku.com.
 
Yep. I posted the same thing. I included the link, so it is waiting on the moderator to approve. I also wish macrumors had included a link to the press release in the article. I went and tried to find the app on my Roku, couldn't and then came back to search the web and only then found 1 article that had found the sentence in the press release and the original source.
 
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I’ve had no issues since day one.
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The Apple Music interface blows chunks, IMO. Too hard to find stuff even when you build lists and favorites. I wind up having to use search way too often. Apple is like the a**hole grocery stores which rearrange their isles ever few weeks in order to make you browse to find what you want. They both hope that all that browsing will prompt more sales. It only prompts aggravation and anger in my case.
 
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Still no lossless or Atmos support for anything except Apple hardware products. For Windows, I just use music.apple.com
 
ThatGuyInLa said:
Still no lossless or Atmos support for anything except Apple hardware products. For Windows, I just use music.apple.com
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Not true, you can get lossless and atmos on Android devices according to apples website (don’t have any android devices to confirm)
 
I rushed to download it but so far is not available yet.

EDIT: tried again about 10 min ago and I finally installed the app. Works great.
 
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Apple supports other products more than their own. I'm still running High Sierra (I know...) and I've been stuck with an outdated version of iTunes 12 for years already now.

Back when Steve was running the ship you could run something as modern as iTunes 9 on Tiger, but now its like they can't wait to stop supporting yesterday's operating system.
 
This is great news. I hope Apple will next make Apple Music available on the streaming devices that can actually take advantage of lossless, such as the Bluesound Node. I would love to be able to listen to Apple Music on my audio system in full lossless glory.
 
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The Apple Music interface blows chunks, IMO. Too hard to find stuff even when you build lists and favorites. I wind up having to use search way too often. Apple is like the a**hole grocery stores which rearrange their isles ever few weeks in order to make you browse to find what you want. They both hope that all that browsing will prompt more sales. It only prompts aggravation and anger in my case.
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I don't like it either and I don't like the fact that Pandora still rules when it comes to personal or artist radio stations, heck SiriusXM has a jukebox like feature on one line of radios, does Apple Music offer the ability to randomly skip between 20 different stations?

Does Apple believe or care that they might possibly be able to rule all of streaming music if they can nail the personalization of music playing?

Anyway vis a vis Apple TV, how about full screen fast forward, as far as I can tell nobody has this, not Netflix, do the people at these companies actually use the product?
 
I just tried it on my Roku Ultra. Looks just like the Apple Music app on the Apple TV. Songs have the lyrics right next to the album art. The app does not play songs in Dolby Atmos.
 
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