Apple Music Sing Limited to Latest Apple TV, Not Coming to Older Models

[Takeo Apple]

Another weak decision by Apple to appease investors and boost end-of-year sales. How pathetic.

nah, the lyrics are removed in real time - I bet the chip in the "old" 4K Apple TV is not fast enough.

 

[Abazigal]

Just ordered one and it should be arriving next week.

 

[Ozid]

I'm not really enjoying Apple software enough for the continuous letdowns of my hardware. At least with Android, I know I won't be getting any meaningful updates to my experience, and can't be let down when I'm walled out.

I think I'll do a Google Pixel 8 next phone.

 

[dampfnudel]

It probably requires a minimum of 4GB of RAM in addition to an A13 or better. Apple should’ve given the 2021 Apple TV 4K an A14 processor and 4GB of RAM instead of the gimped version people bought last year only to lose out on what could potentially become a very popular feature. I wonder what exclusive new feature is next?

 

[svish]

Disappointed to see this available only on the latest Apple TV model.

 

[applerocks]

Not a fun quarter to be an Apple Music sub:

• October hit the pocketbooks w/ the cost increase
• November hit the heart - didn't feel great to be an Apple Music sub (replay experience)
• December punches the gut - finally, we get some excitement, only to have it shut down within minutes

Shame on Apple. Acting like MSFT w/ limiting this to certain Apple TV hardware, especially after Black Friday.

 

[adib]

But there is no need to do it on the fly. It could process it before you start playing it, might have to wait like 30 seconds or so before it starts.

Or Apple could strip the vocals server-side and save the results there. Otherwise, all those Apple TV would just perform the same vocal-stripping operation and come up with identical results — which is a waste of compute and energy.

 

[Rugbydman]

Hi will this work on latest iPad Air?

 

[J___o___h___n]

This is not to hear. Apple Music lyrics are already on the previous generation Apple TV - surely it's capable of karaoke - no?

 

[platinumaqua]

Real-time scanning the music and muting the vocals. This is all algorithmic. Apple isn’t going to develop karaoke for every song they developed software that does it. And apparently needs an A13

Apple said in the footnotes that the feature is only turning down the volume of the vocals and can't eliminate them - this is nothing more than an equalizer adjustment.

I bet it's their fancy UI that requires a newer Metal feature that caused the feature to be limited to newer chips.

 

[imola.zhp]

I upgraded all of the ATV's last year, 6 of them across 3 households.

Never again Apple...

 

[Gusts]

iPad Pro 11-inch (Third-generation) --> A12X --> same Neural Engine as A12 --> A12 is inside the Apple TV 4K 2021

Will we now stop saying that the minimum requirement is A13?!

 

[_Spinn_]

Seems like a joke that the A12 can’t handle karaoke.

 

[applerocks]

Seems like a joke that the A12 can’t handle karaoke.

did autocorrect replace "greed" with "a joke"

 

[Davewilld1]

Works fine on Apple TV HD.

Model #A1625

Sorry. The control of the vocals does not work on this model.

 

[ToeCutter]

So, my AppleTV can playback 50+ Mbps 4K @ 60Hz with HDR10 tonemapping, but it’s suddenly incapable of processing DIGITAL audio to lower the volume of vocals?

My AppleTV is the last remaining Apple device I own, and nonsense like this from Apple is why. Apple has never been very customer friendly, but this is some downright passive-aggressive sh*t that I’d expect from an angry teen girlfriend back in the 1980s, not a multi-trillion dollar consumer electronics company.

Lastly, after watching my very first Qualcomm keynote that only teased at some of the product announcements they’re making tomorrow, Apple is going to have their hands FULL of competition in the mobile and now, portable compute and AI space. I’ll reserve judgement until after tomorrow’s deep dives into their new products, but I’ve never seen this degree of bluster from a company like Qualcomm. Between Qualcomm providing SOCs that best Apple M2 while using less power, to Microsoft directly addressing reliable and transparent virtualization of x86 Win apps (including some AAA PC game titles), it’s clear that Apple’s mobile performance supremacy has come to an end.

Apple’s inexplicable fixation with Vision Pro has left them lagging behind in too many product categories, which might explain why decisions like removing Apple Music Sing from capable AppleTVs looks so desperate. What’s worse? iPhone 11 and up support it, but it disables itself if you connect to AppleTV. That’s some dirty pool, Apple. I just can’t be seen with products from such a desperate yet lazy company.