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Apple Releases iOS 8.4 With Apple Music, Beats 1, and Revamped Music App
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Can someone please explain why Apple still have to update iTunes while Apple Music is already live? I'm behind my Mac and I want to listen to music through my speakerse, not those lame-ass earbuds from Apple that were made in China for 2 cents. I even booted Windows to check on the iTunes update.
What are they censoring? I was able to play The Chronic with all explicit language.
Hello Apple, you forgot to release iTunes 12.2...
Should be the same as sharing has always been. I joined on my 6 plus and had to go through the menus on my iPad and after I put in my password, it said I already had joined and everything worked.
Probably a ton of people updating at the same time. I jumped on it right at 11:00AM ET and was able to get both my iPhone and iPad downloaded and installed in about 20 minutes.
They said Apple Music will launch on 30 July for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Android and Apple TV will follow later.
Apple probably uses the same normalization that they use on iTunes. Every track that is louder than -14 dBFS is lowered in volume. Spotify uses a similar approach but they have -12 dBFS as a reference (two dB's louder). Spotify also compresses music that is under -12 dBFS, like Pink Floyd for instance, to get the same level for every track. Apple leaves the quieter tracks alone.
The main difference apart from Spotify being louder is that most albums on Apple music will sound more dynamic.
Just turn up the volume!
Ahh - now that's interesting. Something always bothered me when listening to Spotify vs. my own iTunes collection (mainly ripped CDs but a fair amount of store purchases). Spotify always sounded 'flatter'.
It didn't occur to me that they might be compressing the dynamic range. I'm partial to a bit of Muse and Smashing Pumpkins, both bands do a fair bit of quiet bit/loud bit. The loud bits never made the hair stand up on the back of my neck on Spotify.
I don't mind a bit of normalisation between tracks -- makes playlists much easier to listen to without having to leap for the volume button. But compression just plain sucks.
Just means the page didn't load properly. Probably due to server load.Something feels like this was rushed to production...
Okay...I think I might have an issue. Seeing as I've been running the public beta, technically both devices are already running 8.4. iTunes seems to recognise this and doesn't offer any updates but the OTA service is saying there are updates available, but as I mentioned before, it keeps getting stuck on 'Requesting update...'
I'm going to take a wild guess that this isn't the same build as the final public beta seeing as I'm still get odd headers and place holders within the Music app, plus it's not letting me sign up for a free trial of Apple Music.
I'm going to take a wild guess that this isn't the same build as the final public beta seeing as I'm still get odd headers and place holders within the Music app, plus it's not letting me sign up for a free trial of Apple Music.
Can I ask why all of my compilations albums (transferred from iTunes) artwork has been changed from the "official original" album artwork to random artwork that changed with each song? For example Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion II now has main artwork of Guns N Roses Live In Concert for the first song, Civil War. Then "14 years" (2nd song on album) shows the original album artwork. Then "Yesterday" (song 3) show artwork for Guns N Roses Live To Air and so on and so on. The strange thing is that on my wives iPhone the music, which is from exactly the same library and iMac shows the official, proper artwork for the same albums I have??? All of the iOS Music app settings are identical on both iPhones???
That's what I'm getting too. I thought this was just because I'm still running the public beta 8.4 as I've not yet been able to update to the final build release. Even though iTunes is telling me I'm already running 8.4.