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Apple Seeds First iOS 8.4 Beta to Developers With Revamped Music App

Avenged110 said:
None of the buttons align with other buttons and it bothers me.
And I cite that as an example with iOS 8 on the iPad all the time. It's sad, really.
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Side note: I've never appreciated my Now Playing screen like I have today.
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Echosmith and iOS 6: two things I love. :D Still rocking it on 6.1.2 on an iPod touch 5G.
 
dmrowley said:
Can anyone confirm if 8.4b fixes the annoying behavior of the Music app where it shows a different song when in landscape mode?

The active song is by The Cardigans, but when I rotate to landscape mode, it shows The Pet Shop Boys....

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That not a bug. It shows the last album you opened in landscape mode not the active song.
Landscape mode appears to be gone.
 
jon3543 said:
What does pressing the ellipsis by the album name do when:

1. Viewing albums by an Artist?

2. Viewing the single album?

If it gives you a Play/Shuffle menu, that would be an improvement over prior versions. It would need to have even more options to make it better than simply adding per-album Play buttons next to the existing per-album Shuffle buttons.

Of course, this exploded design doesn't help the scrolling problem of 20 albums by an artist, some with dozens of tracks.
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If you tap an Artist to show the list of their albums, you can play an album by tapping on the album art thumbnail in the list: That will ONLY play THAT album (it won't continue on to the next album). In fact, playing a song from that album list will also only play songs from that album.

No way I can see to shuffle an album, unfortunately. That seems to be missing.
 
rorschach said:
If you tap an Artist to show the list of their albums, you can play an album by tapping on the album art thumbnail in the list: That will ONLY play THAT album (it won't continue on to the next album). In fact, playing a song from that album list will also only play songs from that album.
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Those are both welcome changes to the iOS 7-8.3 Music app.

No way I can see to shuffle an album, unfortunately. That seems to be missing.
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I guess it's one step forward (no more implicit playlists when trying to play a single album), one step back (no more shuffle of just the one album), one step ignored (endless scrolling of album list with songs). What does pressing the ellipsis do?
 
Avenged110 said:
Only downside is, Apple doesn't think so since their newfound obsession with blinding white everything.
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Except Watch which is black. I expect we'll get it once Apple goes OLED:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...12147054&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Under normal circumstances, the screen will then show one of nine watch faces, each customizable. One will show the time alongside a brightly lit flower, butterfly, or jellyfish; these will be in motion, against a black background. This imagery had dominated the launch, and Ive now explained his enthusiasm for it. He picked up his iPhone 6 and pressed the home button. “The whole of the display comes on,” he said. “That, to me, feels very, very old.” (The iPhone 6 reached stores two weeks later.) He went on to explain that an Apple Watch uses a new display technology whose blacks are blacker than those in an iPhone’s L.E.D. display. This makes it easier to mask the point where, beneath a glass surface, a display ends and its frame begins. An Apple Watch jellyfish swims in deep space, and becomes, Ive said, as much an attribute of the watch as an image. On a current iPhone screen, a jellyfish would be pinned against dark gray, and framed in black, and, Ive said, have “much less magic.”
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UX is much better, but I don't understand why stock iOS apps look so much worse than the top 3rd party apps. How is it that people are out-designing Apple? Jony Ive's taste in physical objects is unparalleled, but I think he needs more help here.
 
jon3543 said:
I guess it's one step forward (no more implicit playlists when trying to play a single album), one step back (no more shuffle of just the one album), one step ignored (endless scrolling of album list with songs). What does pressing the ellipsis do?
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Play Next
Add to Up Next
Make Available Offline
Delete

However, if you enabled Shuffle in the Now Playing view, it will shuffle albums that you play.
 
Genius Playlists

Can anyone who has iOS 8.4 beta tell me as to whether or not there is any Genius Playlists active still? I haven't seen in any of the screenshots that showcase Genius being a feature in the Music app. Playlists are still viable in some shots but in others I do not see Genius. Can anyone confirm Genius no longer on the app?
 
Jakexb said:
UX is much better, but I don't understand why stock iOS apps look so much worse than the top 3rd party apps. How is it that people are out-designing Apple? Jony Ive's taste in physical objects is unparalleled, but I think he needs more help here.
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How do we know he designed the music app? Music is under Eddy Cue. But yeah I agree on most stock iOS apps. I get the impression the iOS redesign was rushed. Maybe iOS 10 will bring an updated design (hopefully dark mode) that more closely aligns with Watch. But let's face it 3rd parties were out designing Apple long before Ive took over UI design. Let's not forget the awful podcasts app. It's not white but it is fugly (IMO).

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mmomega said:
Also, now at the bottom of the screen, just above "My Music Playlists Radio" there is a now playing bar. Tapping it will bring up the current track, album art, and other controls such as shuffle, up next, make available offline and delete .

The playing now bar stays right there even when moving back and forth between albums, playlists, and radio
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Love Mitch Hedberg!
 
Whatsnew3000 said:
Can anyone who has iOS 8.4 beta tell me as to whether or not there is any Genius Playlists active still? I haven't seen in any of the screenshots that showcase Genius being a feature in the Music app. Playlists are still viable in some shots but in others I do not see Genius. Can anyone confirm Genius no longer on the app?
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Genius and Genius playlists seem to be gone.
 
Ok, fanboys and fangirls...

Can someone please explain to me the rabid enthusiasm for this app update on the first 1-3 pages of this thread? It's lost on me.

I watched the preview video for the new app. I'm not sold. Looks like a featureless piece of crap software. Yes, it's free. Will I use it? Probably not.
 
diddl14 said:
Yeah, they got rid of the damn landscape mode, from the release notes:
"Music app may unexpectedly quit when deleting a playlist or rotating the device to landscape orientation."
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HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

a1kim said:
Unfortunately, the flow is still:
Artist -> Albums w/songs showing

instead of how it used to be (prior to iOS7?):
Artist -> Albums -> Songs

For people like me that actually like listening to albums, this is really annoying. I don't want (a) to have to scroll through a list of songs to get to an older album and (b) the next album to just start playing right after the album I wanted to listen to.

I don't understand the value of showing all the songs along with the albums. It's basically flattening the hierarchy and making it harder to navigate. If someone can point out the value of the Albums w/songs display, maybe I can learn to like it a bit better, but right now I find it really annoying since I have to scroll around so much more just to play an album.
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I second this.
 
pubwvj said:
iOS 8.4 follows hot on the heels of iOS 8.3, which introduced new diversified emoji, a revamped emoji picker...

Emoticons! Rah! Rah! What a great reason for an update...! Not.

Vomit.
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How come nobody complained about emoji *before* they introduced diverse skin tones? Seems odd. Just saying.
 
norrismantooth said:
Ok, fanboys and fangirls...

Can someone please explain to me the rabid enthusiasm for this app update on the first 1-3 pages of this thread? It's lost on me.

I watched the preview video for the new app. I'm not sold. Looks like a featureless piece of crap software. Yes, it's free. Will I use it? Probably not.
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Because the current Music app is basically the same as iPhone OS (as iOS was originally known) & worse than the new app you hate.
 
norrismantooth said:
Ok, fanboys and fangirls...

Can someone please explain to me the rabid enthusiasm for this app update on the first 1-3 pages of this thread? It's lost on me.
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I don't get it either.

I downloaded Spotify a year ago and haven't opened the Music app since.
 
The guys over iDownloadBlog made a pretty solid review/walkthrough about this revamped app and I'm really feeling it. Makes me wonder if we'll get more apps revamped for iOS 9.
 

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