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Apple Releases iOS 8.4 With Apple Music, Beats 1, and Revamped Music App
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One thing I noticed with playlist is if you tap on the three dots and then select add to a playlist the playlist you're currently in is one of the available playlists to add to. So if you select that one by mistake you end up adding all the songs in the current playlist to itself is essentially duplicating them. I hope Apple fixes that.
I don't know, no slowness here for me. I can't tell the difference between songs on my iPad and streamed songs in terms of snappiness.
And as far as the bitrate goes, what were people expecting? Lossless streaming?
I am off to bed, listened to plenty of Spotify today. I suggest you do the same if you are craving for some music while waiting...
It's not an issue for 99.999% of the users, because 99.999% of the users don't expect the iTunes update to be available within 60 seconds of the iOS update.
I guess Apple didn't realize that it's a business critical make-or-break issue of life and death for the remaining 0.001% of the users whether the iTunes update is available at 8am or 2pm PST.
Really, how was Apple supposed to know that it was so critical for some people? I heard there is some burning of Apple flags going on in some Scandinavian countries already... what's next? All out thermo-nuclear warfare?
Haha, Yep. People get so upset about not having the newest thing, right now!!!! Part of the "Me" generation.
Sorry if asked before... any idea when the Windows update for 12.2 comes out? Love apple music on my iphone, but need it on my work computer to be of any use.
It's working great for me as well. Apple really needs to get on that middle out compression. They should buy Pied Piper.
yeah quite like the layout actually, audiobooks now moved to ibooks which is 'ok', i haven't signed up to apple music yet though and its quite annoying seeing features but not being able to access them as i haven't signed... just not sure if ill use it enough.
I have a subscription to Google Play All Access that I don't have to pay for until 10/1, so I'm still able to listen to music.
Just updated to iOS 8.4, here are my observations
Pros:
+ Now Playing is much more elegant
+ Artist browsing much improved (especially for large collections)
+ Up Next (Finally!)
+ Much more versatile
+ Good use of translucency and album artwork color coding
+ Less white and feels much more content oriented than before
Cons:
- New Music App icon is hideous (the icon was perfect from 8.0-8.3, why change it??? although it looks better inverted on El Capitan so maybe it could change to something like that for iOS 9)
- The status bar in the Now Playing screen is incredibly distracting. Should be removed or at very least tap to disappear.
- The lack of album artwork on the Mini-Player is confusing
- Still too much pink (since the the icon was changed, it looks even more out of place)
- No more shake-to-shuffle
- No proper landscape mode and successor to the great Cover Flow interface
Pros:
+ Now Playing is much more elegant
+ Artist browsing much improved (especially for large collections)
+ Up Next (Finally!)
+ Much more versatile
+ Good use of translucency and album artwork color coding
+ Less white and feels much more content oriented than before
Cons:
- New Music App icon is hideous (the icon was perfect from 8.0-8.3, why change it??? although it looks better inverted on El Capitan so maybe it could change to something like that for iOS 9)
- The status bar in the Now Playing screen is incredibly distracting. Should be removed or at very least tap to disappear.
- The lack of album artwork on the Mini-Player is confusing
- Still too much pink (since the the icon was changed, it looks even more out of place)
- No more shake-to-shuffle
- No proper landscape mode and successor to the great Cover Flow interface
The Norwegian service which plays sounds that Apple Music doesn't plays at AAC 320, Apple Music at 256 supposedly.
When the compression starts removing notes or entire sounds from the music that's not worth paying money for IMO.
Taylor Swift should write a letter so Apple releases iTunes 12.2...
Meaning nowhere in the Apple-world. Also the encoder and its settings are more important than the bitrate.Wimp has done so since 2013.
I don't know if this has been said yet, but...
Developers can partially use Apple Music on iOS 9 beta 2 by initially using the service on iOS 8.4 on another device. If you add a song/album to My Music it will appear and play on a beta device.
Developers can partially use Apple Music on iOS 9 beta 2 by initially using the service on iOS 8.4 on another device. If you add a song/album to My Music it will appear and play on a beta device.
Wimp is on Apple devices as well. Jay-Z bought the company, so now it's Tidal.
Tidal is in the Apple-world.
Hopefully Apple Music will improve. I don't have any faith in Tidal.
And Wimp is being phased out.
There's a workaround...Dammit, no iOS 9 beta update!!
F you, Apple, for screwing your testers over!!
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...amped-music-app.1896157/page-54#post-21529882