Apple Releases iOS 8.4 With Apple Music, Beats 1, and Revamped Music App

[Cougarcat]

Don't get why they are still hiding stars behind the song title on the Plus. There's so much space between the controls. I though they'd gotten rid of it in favor of favorites, like with iPhoto.

Also I'm not sure if I'm a fan of moving the artwork to the top. Some album artwork has text all the way up there (e.g "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) and it makes the clock illegible.

Already loving Up Next, though they should swap out that stupid share button on the home screen and put the Up Next button there instead.

 

[darkfiber]

cannot enable icloud music cloud to save albums - is it just me?

Is it enabled in Settings--> Music--> iCloud Music Library?

 

[soccerjoshj07]

Did you select Merge or Replace? I merged mine and it still has all of my manually transferred tracks on there.

Definitely selected replace. Maybe that was my problem I thought it would replace to the cloud, not the other way around.

 

[penajmz]

"One minute"

 

[damager]

"1 minute"

 

[Gamer9430]

Its time...

 

[amirite]

I just questioned a friend who works at Apple, and he's saying no Apple Pay until September for the UK.. ?!! He even mentioned how they've been told they'll be getting it in early Autumn.

Well your friend is wrong.

 

[abhibeckert]

There is no perceivable difference between 256 AAC and 320 MP3.

True, but "Mastered for iTunes" definitely do sound different and most people agree they are "better".

Also somebody earlier mentioned the volume is louder in Spotify than iTunes. It's well known that we perceive "louder" as "better" in double blind listening tests.

 

[netsped]

Well, it's US$5.99 a month here in my country (US$8.99 a month for the family plan). Spotify is also offering a monthly fee of US$5.99 with a US$0.99 three month trial.

Will try Apple Music and decide in three months.

 

[Rogifan]

So when I search for the Beatles and go to My Music I get all their albums but the cover art is the same for almost all of them and the albums are missing songs.

 

[jdillings]

It's LIVE

 

[gadgetguy03]

- I have the same thing. I can't find anything. Also, the Album view is gone completely. It insists on sorting everything by artists, which is annoying.

Some of the album covers don't even seem to be tangentially related to the music they been assigned to. I don't know where they're coming from...

There is a drop down where you can change the sort list by Artist, Albums, Songs, Music Videos, Genres...

 

[lrsone]

Anyone having issues updating their iOS?

 

[swordfish5736]

That's what I was thinking. Will try that when I get home.

If you click Artists and the drop down, you can filter between music that is stored locally and music that is added to your Music library / My Music.

yep, and songs stored locally have a small device icon in the upper right corner of there label.


you may need to disable iCloud music library on your phone once you go thru the matching process to get everything to populate faster on your phone.

You do understand that this is a different service than apple music though?

 

[tednol]

Yep... Spotify is done. This will be an Apple vs. Google market within a year or two just like smartphones are today. The stockholders win!

Spotify is not done. It is home to most of my friends, we share playlists, it works with my Sonos system today, it's the same price as Apple Music. It has Spotify Running (which is excellent). Don't be so melodramatic - Spotify can co-exist with whatever Apple and Google can throw at it.

 

[darkfiber]

Beats 1 is now LIVE!

 

[Paradoxally]

ZANE LOWE!

 

[jdillings]

First song is ACDC- For Those About To Rock

 

[porkrind]

so far I think it's pretty good. Very curious to see how Beats One will work out. Good start so far, they've been playing Brian Eno's "Music for Airports".

I'm a big fan of Eno, so it's been a nice start. I've liked the 'behind the scenes' stuff for the last hour and the remixing with AC/DC samples.

 

[MentalFloss]

I just tried it on my iPad Air 2 and it works fine. I subscribed with my iPhone 5s first.

Strange, it still doesn't work on my iPad. It acts like the streaming part of Apple Music does not exist (Radio and Connect are available). It also doesn't give me any sign up option or anything like that.

I figured it might be unavailable on the iPad while I use it on the iPhone (quite likely that there are restrictions like that), but even now that I stopped using it on the iPhone, the iPad doesn't know about Apple Music. Weird.

 

[fjfjfjfj]

I am getting "iCloud Music Library can't be enabled". Anyone else seeing this?

Was having that problem too but then closed the music app and then it worked.

 

[alexandru.popa]

liveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[damager]

Lost the mic?

 

[rctlr]

Come on Zane,
Spring King?

 

[hornmann]

Anyone using the family plan (multiple iOS devices that use different iCloud but same iTunes account via Family Sharing) know how to allow Apple Music to separate songs for individual accounts?

Just tested it, and it downloaded the song A that I only want on my iPhone to all other devices.

Same question here. Is there a way for all Family Plan users to each have their own name, nickname, playlists, etc.? It does allow everyone on our family plan to use the service but it doesn't seem to be separating us into individual users and I don't see any options related to this.

 

[soccerjoshj07]

yep, and songs stored locally have a small device icon in the upper right corner of there label.


you may need to disable iCloud music library on your phone once you go thru the matching process to get everything to populate faster on your phone.

You do understand that this is a different service than apple music though?

Then what is the option for "iCloud Music Library" for in the Music settings?