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

[SeanForester27]

Hey Apple, here's an idea: when you first launch the music app and go through the initial sign up stuff you should ask if people have playlists from other services that they'd like to import. I rarely used iTunes or the Music app so Apple Music has a very incomplete picture of my musical tastes. Not being able to import my Spotify playlists will be a deal breaker for me.

beatsimporter.com will eventually be up and running. Basically sign up for the free trial of Beats and then you can send your playlists from spotify over to Beats then Beats automatically should send them to Apple Music! Just a thought!

 

[KALLT]

Really getting annoyed though that I can't like or save any of these songs. This is at least three that aren't on Apple Music...

Or see a recently played list.

 

[slashlos]

Still no track names for audiobook content, unlike my iPod.

 

[CEmajr]

His endless hyperbole is nauseating. He reminds me of Jimmy Fallon. Every artist is great and every song is the best ever. Everything is incredible.

I think I've heard "Worldwide. Always On" about 100 times now and it hasn't been on an hour yet.

Well being worldwide in 100 countries live at the same time is a pretty big deal.

Plus it's the first day so he's probably just trying to listeners to take note of just how large scale this whole thing is.

 

[goinskiing]

I too had been using Google Play Music for about the last 18 months and I have exactly the opposite reaction. This is so much more sensibly laid out, even if not perfect, than GPM. The past couple of GPM updates pretty much sealed my decision to switch to AM, actually. I find that there's way too much shifting back and forth between the menu and music, not to mention how often it crashes or has downloaded songs that have a skip in some part (I haven't had skipping music since the 90s with car CD players!)

Interesting, I'll need to try it out for a while before I can really say for sure. I do agree though that Google Play Music has had some odd updates recently and it's likely just a case of something I'm used to. I'm willing to give itr a shot though.

Though the lack of web interface right now is one of the reasons I'm, struggling with Apple Music at the moment.

 

[producerlawson]

His endless hyperbole is nauseating. He reminds me of Jimmy Fallon. Every artist is great and every song is the best ever. Everything is incredible.

I think I've heard "Worldwide. Always On" about 100 times now and it hasn't been on an hour yet.

You're not familiar with radio then are you? More specifically what Zane's shows are famous for.

 

[Reason077]

$99 MXN is AWESOME, Sign me in forever. Now I need those Bose headphones I just saw to enjoy this.

Apple Music isn't compatible with Bose headphones. Due to the new DRE-HD audio technology included in the Apple Music platform, it only works with Beats headphones.

 

[b25boxer]

I added some new AM songs to existing playlists and they are actually showing up iTunes 12.1.2 but shadowed out. Shows iCloud status "Pending".

 

[surfingarbo]

not sure if anyone has posted this, but if anyone is stuck on update requested delete the iOS beta profile and reboot then the update will work

I owe you a beer. Mine has been stuck on "Update Requested" for about 2 hours. Thanks for helping me get today's version of iOS 8.4!

 

[SeanForester27]

One thing I'm noticing is my music is louder on Spotify than Apple Music. I have to increase the volume on Apple Music to get the same level as Spotify. What does that mean?

Audio quality probably. 256 on Apple 320 on Spotify..

 

[Frankied22]

The new music app is great, but this is bulls*it! Who wants to have the cover art ruined like that?!?!

I really hope this gets fixed in the future releases...

Good taste.

 

[simeonoff]

So Mac customers are not as valued as iOS peasants? Hmm, oh well.

 

[Godzilla71]

Not sure if this has been mentioned. if you pull down on the "For You" tab it will give other suggestions and playlists. I thought it was kind of limited until I happened to do that then I saw a lot of cool playlists I would like to listen to.

 

[Kirtaner]

Audio quality probably. 256 on Apple 320 on Spotify..

256 AAC > 320 MP3

 

[LordQ]

Apple Music isn't compatible with Bose headphones. Due to the new DRE-HD audio technology included in the Apple Music platform, it only works with Beats headphones.

Wow, that is brand new information, thank you! Will the headphones work if I have offline music though?

 

[SeanForester27]

Visit this website to get 12.2 https://itunes.apple.com/foryou?itscg=1002&at=1000l4QJ&ct=music

It just downloads the current iTunes which is 12.1...NOT 12.2. As far as I know iTunes 12.2 with Apple Music hasn't launched yet. It will at some point today.

 

[frozentoast]

Or see a recently played list.

Spring City — King
Beck — Dreams
Jamie xx — Gosh
Skepta — Shutdown
ACDC — For Those About to Rock
Hudson Mohawke — Warriors
Pharrell Williams — Freedom
Courtney Barnett — Dead Fox
The Chemical Brothers — Under Neon Lights
Shamir — On the Regular
Bully — Trying

Played so far…

 

[DakotaGuy]

So Mac customers are not as valued as iOS peasants? Hmm, oh well.

When 75% of your profit is iOS based who do you think they should give priority to? An updated iTunes will come once they make sure the iOS update is deployed properly.

 

[vixster1901]

Is everyone doing the update OTA? not all need to reply

 

[goinskiing]

What are you drinking? It's awesome!

I would actually have to agree with him, the playing now should be a dedicated button. With some tweaks Apple Music could be neat.

 

[adub83]

Beats app user here and my playlists haven't migrated yet. Anyone having that issue. May have to give it 24hrs

 

[nrose101]

Audio quality probably. 256 on Apple 320 on Spotify..

Yeah but apple uses aac whereas Spotify uses crappy mp3.

 

[iphonejunkie]

When I try to load any other radio station (other than Beats1) I get the following

 

[firstapple]

Spring City — King
Beck — Dreams
Jamie xx — Gosh
Skepta — Shutdown
ACDC — For Those About to Rock
Hudson Mohawke — Warriors
Pharrell Williams — Freedom
Courtney Barnett — Dead Fox
The Chemical Brothers — Under Neon Lights
Shamir — On the Regular
Bully — Trying

Played so far…

Thanks!!!

 

[nyctravis]

None of my playlists from Beats appear to have transferred over and I can't get back to Beats anymore. Annoying!