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Apple Releases iOS 8.4 With Apple Music, Beats 1, and Revamped Music App
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You mean that playlists that the "For You" page suggests? Yes, these can be saved to My Music and made available offline as well.
- On that note, how are you finding Apple Music for classical? I'm a little conflicted...
And did the iOS update also completely mess up your classical album covers?
I have many proper albums that have been assigned generic "Classical in the Movies", "Top 100 Beethoven" covers and the like for inexplicable reasons.
As always with the Music app, 1 step forward, 2 steps back!
- finally, repeat 1 doesn't reset the shuffly playlist.
- up next is pretty amazing all things considered
- no "skip when shuffling"!!!!
- no way to know how many songs in playlist/next up
- no way to star shuffling you music collection easily
- battery status, clock are hidden in a lot of albums
- no way to delete a song from up next
Well, adding Apple Music songs to playlists in iTunes is even more of a mess than on the iPad. Sorry, Apple, I love Apple Music already, but the playlist handling is just effed up. On the iPad, songs that I add keep vanishing from playlists. On iTunes, I have to first save songs to "My Music" before I can add them to a playlist (which should be a one-step operation, as is the case on the iPad). Either way, ultra-inconvenient.
Quickly creating playlists for Apple Music is a fairly important feature. Right now, that just doesn't work.
Quickly creating playlists for Apple Music is a fairly important feature. Right now, that just doesn't work.
Maybe it's just me, but maybe a more helpful error message would be useful to us the users, like "Sorry, but that feature is only available with a subscription to Apple Music" rather than just a "cannot start stream, please try later" load of BS. Or, how about not even showing us those stations unless we subscribe? Just seems very......ummmm.....unApple if that's even a word.
Any song that i've just added to a playlist automatically shows up in My Music. It's been 1 step process for me unless I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do. I didn't add to My Music first.
That sucks.
I don't have iOS devices, just my mac. iTunes is not available on updates here yet.
I'm exited to try it out. I think you might be right about the bitrate for most uses.
I do hear a difference, especially when I use external firewire soundcard.
I've used Spotify so Apple Music is probably a step in sound quality.
In iTunes on the Mac?
What is the exact process you follow? I search for a song in "Radio" that is not yet in my music library, and then I want to add it to a playlist. That option doesn't exist though - I have to first add it to "My Music". From there, I can move it into a playlist.
On the iPad, when I find a song, I can immediately move it to a playlist, and it is automatically added to "My Music".
Well I can use the internet on my iPhone and my Mac just fine. I'm not having any issues there.
- I see. I wasn't speaking of the bit rate, though. But yeah, 256 AAC is fine for my uses, too.
Mainly, I'm super annoyed by the album art being messed up right now. 'Cause this is just plain ugly:
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the new music app layout is terrible… I wish you could take put album and artist on the bottom menu again. The my music section is very underwhelming, you can't even see all songs by one artist anymore. Would it kill to allow for the slightest bit of customisation?
I love up next and minimising the player but the rest is a bit meh :/
Downgrading my phone to 8.3 I think.
I love up next and minimising the player but the rest is a bit meh :/
Downgrading my phone to 8.3 I think.