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Apple Music Launches New 'Behind the Songs' Hub Focusing on Songwriters and Producers

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Apple today is rolling out a new hub focused on songwriters, producers, and session musicians. Similar to previous content hubs, "Behind the Songs" is a curated collection of playlists, videos, interviews, and radio shows (via Engadget).

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You can find the hub by searching "songwriter" or "songwriters" in Apple Music, although it does still appear to be rolling out and isn't yet available to all users.

In the hub, Apple Music is highlighting its existing playlists like "Song Book" and "Behind the Boards," which are made to showcase specific songwriters and producers in popular music. A series of videos called "Lyrics to Live By" has artists like Dua Lipa and Halsey discussing some of their own songwriting.

Apple's new hub follows a few months after Spotify debuted its own songwriter-focused section, which elevates the people who write and produce the music in every playlist.

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I would rather Apple purchase master recordings and give the ability to listen to isolated instrument stem tracks.
 
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TrenttonY said:
More stuff thrown into the already cluttered and confusing 'Browse' tab.
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Agreed, I'm subbed to Apple Music but listen to music on YouTube 90% of the time. I also can't figure out how to change my music preferences since the initial circles setup thing? Anyone? The search seems to bring up tons of irrelevant junk, some of it doesn't even play, but it's in my search results? Huh? Why is it always trying to get me to listen to hip hop or r&b, I never said I liked hip hop and I never listened to it? I like jazz but it never keeps me up to date on jazz...I guess the point is this needs cleaned up not have more stuff stapled on.
 
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cgaw23 said:
Enough changes already
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What?

NO ... some people actually LOVE music ... and feel that just the song itself is not enough.
I guess you're a music hoarder, in the sense of Prince's manifesto years ago as the dawn of MP3's began and heavily rejected by Metallica and LARS Ulrich especially.

Music lovers, real fans want to know more about artists and their creative process, influences and such. Like what LP's and Cassettes used to offer music purchasers prior to MP3's and digital music.

Each to their own but try not to disregard change just cause it's change.
 
DeepIn2U said:
What?

NO ... some people actually LOVE music ... and feel that just the song itself is not enough.
I guess you're a music hoarder, in the sense of Prince's manifesto years ago as the dawn of MP3's began and heavily rejected by Metallica and LARS Ulrich especially.

Music lovers, real fans want to know more about artists and their creative process, influences and such. Like what LP's and Cassettes used to offer music purchasers prior to MP3's and digital music.

Each to their own but try not to disregard change just cause it's change.
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I love music but will never use this feature.
I want to listen to the music. Not read about what the band was thinking he when they wrote it. But to each their own
 
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Very cool idea.

Agree with others. Fix the slowness. The interface is confusing. Missing basic stuff like gapless.

I really like Apple music. But I can’t quit Spotify. Not sure why, outside it’s just faster and more reliable.
 
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BWhaler said:
Very cool idea.

Agree with others. Fix the slowness. The interface is confusing. Missing basic stuff like gapless.

I really like Apple music. But I can’t quit Spotify. Not sure why, outside it’s just faster and more reliable.
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Curious what you mean by

Gapless - you mean no pause between tracks? Do you feel this works with a playlist with various genre's? To me that would be like a terrible DJ at party (seen a few of those in my teens - never again).

'reliable' ... what's not 'reliable' about Apple Music app? Or do you mean the service as in algorithms for finding songs?
 
My biggest issue with Apple Music is the lack of sub-genres.... some of the music categorized as techno, rock, Spanish, country music is TECHNICALLY that but with sub-genres, I feel like music could be better curated for ME
 
Apple seems to be very active with Apple Music. I guess the app will get a bit of a new design with iOS15.
Meanwhile Spotify is only crying in a corner. When will they show some lyrics? Maaan, that should just be a basic feature..

And after all their whining, when will they finally have HomePod support? They even cried about it on a specially made webpage. Now Apple has opened up a lot of other streaming services implemented HomePod support. But now Spotify is keeping quiet. Their company-culture must be crap
 
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So now there are even more ways to find playlist? You can either go to the artist or click song book and you find similar playlist s.
Confusing Apple. I wish they would integrate upcoming concerts instead of a way to favourite artists so you could get updates on new releases
 
Full credits should be easily viewable (IMO shown by default, but I doubt they'll integrate that) similarly to classic LP-format practice, liner notes/essays included.
 
I love Apple Music, bought tons of digital, now have subscription ... but there are times (more so than not) that I miss the simple and uncluttered navigation, and I just want to listen to music .. no Weekend Motivation, no Chill, no Weekend Fun, no Recently Updated ... just.my.music.

There are times when I don't care who wrote it, who sang it, what was the inspiration, what equipment was used ... just want to draw my own experiences from listening to it.

Besides isn't there a long press, 3D press, hold, whatever that allows you to Go to Artist, Go to Album on an artists' name? Why can't we have all the technical/production stuff placed there? Seems like a wasted space with just two "Go to..."
 
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TrenttonY said:
More stuff thrown into the already cluttered and confusing 'Browse' tab.
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Yup. Discovering stuff in the Music app is… not fun.

It's even worse in their TV app, perhaps because you can't really peek at a TV show to figure out if you might like it the same way you can at a 3-minute song.
 
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ProVideo said:
I would rather Apple purchase master recordings and give the ability to listen to isolated instrument stem tracks.
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I would love this too, but it's probably never going to happen. Once you have the masters you can remix it yourself and claim (rightly or wrongly) derivative works as transformative. Record companies might see this as weakening their own copyrights somewhat (even if the threat of such transformative use was small).
 
For artists I love I will by books on them. I have dozens of Cohen, Beatles, GD books in my library. I find that most useful to me.
 
Apple Music is definitely creating a special niche with this update. I really wish they would spend more time on making better algorithms and more curated playlists for new music discovery for those that like to find new things to listen to. It's unfortunate because AM is one of may two Apple products I cannot stick to. I try it for several months and find that I'm not really finding enough new music. As much as I abhor Spotify and their crying/complaining they do really really excel in this area. For me, personally, that is the most important feature above all else.
 
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