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Apple Music Connect to Be Removed From Music App Tab Bar in iOS 10
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Happy to see those go actually. Really don't need to see the outline of Bono's head every time I play something.
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Hope they keep it on individual artist pages. It makes sense to be able to post one-off content without having to "release" an album or single. More casual stuff would be great. As a feed though it did feel like overkill.
I could see them getting a lot more use out of it if Apple Music was available on the web. An artist would be able to link to content they posted on their connect, share it on twitter, facebook.
What Connect should have been all along is a way for users to share their own playlists, similar to a feature I used to use in iTunes.
Also plllllleeeease update the Remote app so we can stream Apple Radio (and Apple Music). iTunes + AppleTV/Airport is so close to being a Sonos-like full home audio solution, but for some crazy reason you can only access your local iTunes library for streaming to multiple devices.
Or just change the color scheme on the Music app.
Or just change the color scheme on the Music app.
A good Twitter and/or Instagram account for Apple Music could accomplish the same thing, plus give the service a little more marketing.
This is crazy. Ping and Connect both fail and it feels like no one is held accountable. Eddy Cue seems scatterbrained. All of his recent contributions have been sporadic and messy.
Connect should have ditched all the musician garbage and been simply a way to share and discover custom playlists posted by your contacts and friends. The way you share playlists in Apple Music sucks. It feels too much like file sharing and less like broadcasting your tune mixes to all.
Connect should have ditched all the musician garbage and been simply a way to share and discover custom playlists posted by your contacts and friends. The way you share playlists in Apple Music sucks. It feels too much like file sharing and less like broadcasting your tune mixes to all.
When Connect was announced, it seemed to be Ping v2 with a new skin and theme.
Apple will need to really learn from why it isn't being accepted in a larger way. Could it be not everyone has an iPhone, yet a lot of users have access to other cross platform social media services?
Why did Apple destroy cover flow? That was something so unique to the Apple platform.
Apple will need to really learn from why it isn't being accepted in a larger way. Could it be not everyone has an iPhone, yet a lot of users have access to other cross platform social media services?
Why did Apple destroy cover flow? That was something so unique to the Apple platform.
What'd be nice is if you don't have Apple Music enabled, the tab bar just goes back to the way it used to be... "Songs", "Artists", "Playlists", "Genre", etc.
Don't make me go into "My Music" to do those things when it's all "My Music".
Don't make me go into "My Music" to do those things when it's all "My Music".
Call it Pong while you're at it.
The way this COULD have worked:
– access Connect from artist page, perhaps a sidebar, always visible unless switched off
– integration with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (honestly, as a bedroom musician, I have enough social media places to post) while allowing to post exclusive content as well
– don't put it in a separate tab where nobody is going to look (especially as it's a complete mess)
The way this COULD have worked:
– access Connect from artist page, perhaps a sidebar, always visible unless switched off
– integration with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (honestly, as a bedroom musician, I have enough social media places to post) while allowing to post exclusive content as well
– don't put it in a separate tab where nobody is going to look (especially as it's a complete mess)
i don't open my music player to see what my fav artists are doing, i open my music player to friggin' play my goddamn music.
if i want some leisure 'social' discovery time, i can browse facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, so on.
if i want some leisure 'social' discovery time, i can browse facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, so on.
Why don't they relabel it "Follow" and then it would be a list of what your friends have been listening to, what playlists they've made and so on. Make it ACTUALLY social (which means two-way)
i wish i could see what my friends listen to and share / maintain a playlist together more easily. i think the categories on Spotify are sorted better and updated more frequently as well.
also get rid of beats, thats just confusing. name it Apple Music Radio or something
also get rid of beats, thats just confusing. name it Apple Music Radio or something
Agreed. This is an issue with new operating systems in general once devices are in the mature end of the product cycle. I find both OSX and iOS get keep getting features added just for the sake of being "something new" to sell but are usually unnecessary, hardly used by end users, and make the experience more complicated. If it's not an easy simple feature that people will benefit from leave things alone.
What they need to also remove is the "Showing only music on this iPhone. Show all Music" banner at the top of the music list.
I don't need this ***** reminder every time I look at my music, I turned on the "show only music available offline" setting intentionally because I don't want random iTunes songs I got from various starbucks promos cluttering up my music list. I certainly don't need to be reminded of it all the time - at least give me a way to x-out the reminder.
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I don't need this ***** reminder every time I look at my music, I turned on the "show only music available offline" setting intentionally because I don't want random iTunes songs I got from various starbucks promos cluttering up my music list. I certainly don't need to be reminded of it all the time - at least give me a way to x-out the reminder.
How is it useful? Obviously you know how to switch back and forth, and the toggle to switch back and forth is one tap away. So the banner doesn't add any functionality in that sense - if anything it is entirely superfluous. So what use does the constant reminder provide?
Yes yes yes. I also find this annoying and extremely heavy-handed.