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Apple Music Offering Six-Month Free Trial to Students Until End of April

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Apple has announced that students who have yet to subscribe to Apple Music can now get a six-month free trial – double the standard three months offered to students – in the United States and select other countries.

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Apple says the promotion is open to students in the United States studying for a bachelor degree, post-graduate degree, or an equivalent Higher Education course at a University or College. Eligibility in Canada extends to Post-Secondary School students, and in Japan to junior, technical colleges, and special courses.

Students must verify their eligibility by confirming your student status through UNiDAYS. The limited time promotion ends April 30, 2021. When the trial ends, the Apple Music plan for students is $4.99 per month, compared to the standard $9.99 per month for individuals.


This is only the second time Apple has offered students a limited time six-month promotion offer for Apple Music. The last one arrived in July 2019. This latest one was first spotted by a Twitter user and subsequently reported by The 8-Bit.

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Paid for Apple Music for a year, didn’t renew. Still prefer Google Play Music, now YouTube Music over Apple Music.

One of my biggest peeves with Apple Music was the inability to see tracks/songs that I have liked/loved/given a thumbs up. Just let me listen to songs I have recently liked, for God sake. YouTube Music creates an auto-playlist of my liked songs. Apple being passive-aggressive and not letting me see a list of songs I liked.* People aren’t stupid, you know—I see what you’re trying to do, Apple.

Google’s algorithms also play more similar music to songs I like through the “radio” feature. Apple Music is definitely an inferior product, in my opinion.
 
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b13o0r12e3 said:
I've always hopped through Music, Spotify and Tidal trial offers, never paid a cent for streaming music.

I even use the Christmas return period as an excuse to have an iPad for 2 months every year, does this mean I'm going to hell?
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I paid some months but I usually do the same, actually enjoying 6 months of Tidal and when it finish im sure Spotify will have something ready for me
 
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I don't understand the Schoolhouse Rock style graphic. What's the purple cloud? Does the guy have a head? It frightens me.
 
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b13o0r12e3 said:
I've always hopped through Music, Spotify and Tidal trial offers, never paid a cent for streaming music.

I even use the Christmas return period as an excuse to have an iPad for 2 months every year, does this mean I'm going to hell?
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Yep for sure. There, you'll be forced to use a super slow IBM PC running windows 3.1 and dialup internet for a thousand years. But all is not bad. You'll be blessed with your very own WinAMP player on the said PC to play your favorite MIDI files.
 
I don't really know Apple music. I should give it a shot. I just like how spotify has the lists I made and some other incredible ones, like Palestine Hip-Hop. Can Apple Music import lists from spotify? That might help.
 
I will insist on what I said in other thread:

What Apple should do is to return to origins. I mean, I felt in love with Apple thanks to the iPod, the originals, the classic ones. It was so simple to play all our music there that actually is the device that vamped the way of Apple to relaunch the company and lead to it’s current success (obviously they took a step by step way). Now is really sad that Apple Music is almost forgotten by Apple. So I truly think they should reengineer the Music App from zero, respecting all aspects that made iPod great and one of the most iconic devices for our generation, at least as a way to honour all customers that have been with Apple since then, supporting Apple to become what today is.
 
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iGüey said:
I will insist on what I said in other thread:

What Apple should do is to return to origins. I mean, I felt in love with Apple thanks to the iPod, the originals, the classic ones. It was so simple to play all our music there that actually is the device that vamped the way of Apple to relaunch the company and lead to it’s current success (obviously they took a step by step way). Now is really sad that Apple Music is almost forgotten by Apple. So I truly think they should reengineer the Music App from zero, respecting all aspects that made iPod great and one of the most iconic devices for our generation, at least as a way to honour all customers that have been with Apple since then, supporting Apple to become what today is.
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... and what exactly does that redesign you keep on insisting about consist of?
 
Apple TV+ is also offered free of charge to Apple Music Student subscribers. What Apple doesn’t have is Apple One Student subscription - with all of these student offers, Apple One doesn’t make financial sense for students.
 
Argh. I wish the interface/app on Apple TV and Mac was better. Spotify has become quite bloated but I still keep going back the 1-2 times I've tried to switch to Apple Music. I feel like there's too much of "iTunes" still in Apple Music and while that used to be a great thing in 2005, not so much anymore. I also love the Spotify app on Apple TV and how you can use different devices as "remotes" instead of trying to cast or airplay to them. Oh well, someday.
 
I may be really dumb, but I cannot figure this out.

I verified successfully through Unidays and it brought me back to iTunes, and iTunes looked exactly the same advertising a 1 month free trial. I didn't see anywhere to enter the Unidays name and password.

Are you supposed to set up a new Apple ID with the Unidays univeristy e-mail address you used?

Maybe the problem was that I did this while logged in to the iTunes Store, and it assumes you've never used Apple services before. Not sure.
 
I tried. I honestly tried... No matter how much trial period Apple gives, Spotify seems to be a better pick simply because it's ironically has a better integration in Apple ecosystem than Apple Music :’) Continuity or remote control from device to device is one of the features I definitely miss here
 
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I tried. I honestly tried... No matter how much trial period Apple gives, Spotify seems to be a better pick simply because it's ironically has a better integration in Apple ecosystem than Apple Music :’) Continuity or remote control from device to device is one of the features I definitely miss here
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Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself.
 
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