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Apple Music First Impressions: Convenient All-in-One Experience With Overwhelming Design
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Yes, you need a credit card like Match to initiate the sub. Store credit can be used to pay after the trial.
And no, you can't sync AM, as it's iCloud content. And transfers excluded as it is not a purchase.
So download all around, and no they're not auto-downloads either.
AppleTV will not Airplay the VIDEO of music videos, only audio, presumably until the OS update for it.
And no, you can't sync AM, as it's iCloud content. And transfers excluded as it is not a purchase.
So download all around, and no they're not auto-downloads either.
AppleTV will not Airplay the VIDEO of music videos, only audio, presumably until the OS update for it.
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I didn't have "For You" on iPhone earlier today, but now I do.
Again, this design sucks and makes no sense.
But god damn it is cool to be able to just lift my Apple Watch to my face, say "Hey Siri, Play ..." and name any one of 30 million songs (or whatever) and have it start playing in my car immediately.
Ok can someone tell me what the frig has happened to all my music I had on my iPhone before I signed up to Apple Music, it has all gone.
Great gesture from Apple to help accommodate the exchange rate in UK: 15.79 USD (9.99 GBP) a month
Doesn't that cover VAT at 20%, like usual? That means its more like $12.5, closer.
Took mine a while to populate, but it all seems there now. I'm on iTunes Match.
Are stars/ratings really gone?!? I've inly played with this on my iPad, but I can't find any way to bring them up. Surely that little heart isn't supposed to replace 1-5 stars.
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I do. However, my music library has transferred on my iPad. I think the servers are just playing catch up with the account syncing.
The selection of genres and artists with the dots when starting with this service is absolutely not working on iPhone 5s and 4s. You can't tap some dots with genres/artists to read/change the size or remove them.
I'm missing also an offline feature for your favorite genre/artist station. I will try it for the three months but i already decided that especially the missing option to set a station/playlist with one click offline is a must have feature for me and that is missing. Therefore i will stick with the free MixRadio app and hopefully soon with a MixRadio+ subscription service for 4/5 dollar/euro a month to have unlimited skips, no bannner (and maybe more then 4 offline playlists).
Unfortunately services like Slacker Radio Plus (which is similar to MixRadio) and Rdio Select, Pandora One and Rhapsody unRadio are not available in the Netherlands.
I'm missing also an offline feature for your favorite genre/artist station. I will try it for the three months but i already decided that especially the missing option to set a station/playlist with one click offline is a must have feature for me and that is missing. Therefore i will stick with the free MixRadio app and hopefully soon with a MixRadio+ subscription service for 4/5 dollar/euro a month to have unlimited skips, no bannner (and maybe more then 4 offline playlists).
Unfortunately services like Slacker Radio Plus (which is similar to MixRadio) and Rdio Select, Pandora One and Rhapsody unRadio are not available in the Netherlands.
You can make a playlist available for offline listening. Not sure how you're missing that.
You can indeed download/listen offline certain predefined playlists from Apple or create your own.
However the Apple created playlists are pretty different from what i select when e.g. searching for 'Keane' i get
for example '00s Pop Dinner Party' and 'Leckere Pop-Kuche' but these only have 8 or 15 tracks per playlist which you can play offline. I also don't want to create my own playlists. I want to discover music and listen to my favorite artists.
There is no such option at Stations > select station > e.g. 'Keane' > select 'Keane Radio' > press ... > there is not an option to listen to a station offline.
With MixRadio i can now play 4 playlist offline and each playlist contains a few hours of music. I was hoping Apple Music would also have such an option. I would very much like to discover artists/tracks which are similar as the selected artist(s)/genre(s) i select. Apple Music has this but not in offline modus. For now i will stick to MixRadio to use offline.
I would say it's because Apple's Stations work differently to MixRadio, MixRadio's stations are more preset playlists, but Apple's stations are more malleable. How would you set a station to listen offline?! It could have thousands of songs, they can play for hours without repeating a song.
I was interested in having Apple Music for temporary "rental" of tracks that I would like to download to my device(s) for the term of the subscription period, or until I don't want them on the device any more, whichever came sooner. I expected that everything else would be as it always has been. My music files on whatever device I was operating would still be there and accessible locally.
It doesn't sound like what I had in mind is even an option. I have never before felt so out of step with where Apple's going and hope I have just misunderstood how Apple Music works. But it seems like something the mobile data plan vendors will love.
Anyway I will appreciate any help from someone who has signed up for the Apple Music trial and who did not previously apply iTunes match to their library. I'd like to know if your whole music library got transferred to the cloud and now all you see is Apple's version of the file tags, and it's all in the cloud so you have to stream it and do not even have local files? So if you have no net access at a given time, you cannot play your music? Is that what would happen if I signed up?
It doesn't sound like what I had in mind is even an option. I have never before felt so out of step with where Apple's going and hope I have just misunderstood how Apple Music works. But it seems like something the mobile data plan vendors will love.
Anyway I will appreciate any help from someone who has signed up for the Apple Music trial and who did not previously apply iTunes match to their library. I'd like to know if your whole music library got transferred to the cloud and now all you see is Apple's version of the file tags, and it's all in the cloud so you have to stream it and do not even have local files? So if you have no net access at a given time, you cannot play your music? Is that what would happen if I signed up?
Does anyone know how making playlists available offline works?
on the playlists i press "Make Available Offline" and it says it downloads songs, but then if you look at each individual song it also says "Make Available Offline" am i missing something?
Also if i have set a playlist to be available offline and add songs that playlist at a later date why doesn't it sync and download automatically?
on the playlists i press "Make Available Offline" and it says it downloads songs, but then if you look at each individual song it also says "Make Available Offline" am i missing something?
Also if i have set a playlist to be available offline and add songs that playlist at a later date why doesn't it sync and download automatically?