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Apple Seeds First iOS 8.4 Beta to Developers With Revamped Music App
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You are both right. Apple knew when announcing Yosemite that photos wouldn't be ready at launch, so it wasn't necessarily planned to launch at the same time and then "delayed", they prepped the public for it and used a very public beta to sort out all kinks before release.
Clearly flawless updates are their Achilles heal (have been for some time), and so they're utilizing public betas more and more.
It's a good thing for Apple to not marry their app updates to general OS updates. Makes them more competitive now that third parties are making real replacements for native apps (spotify vs music, stitcher vs podcasts) etc.
Perhaps this is something that Apple has had in the works for iOS 8 since the beginning of it's development and it simple wasn't ready until now.
Rumors point to iOS 9 being a snow leopard release in that it's geared towards streamlining and fixing bugs--that said, it makes sense that they'd intro the music app a bit early to get kinks out of the way so it's ready to be perfect for iOS 9.
Yes, but can the new iOS music player crossfade my music like desktop iTunes??? And why hasn't this simple functionality been baked into the existing iOS Music App? Will wonders never cease.
Well either you're pretending to be oblivious about the features of iOS 8 or you really don't know; you can actually search for the album by name.
Stop trying to make it sound more complicated than it actually is; you people just love looking for things to complain about.
Nice! I think I may try to find an iOS 6 iPod 5 sometime; would make a good backup.Echosmith and iOS 6: two things I love.Still rocking it on 6.1.2 on an iPod touch 5G.
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I would imagine, but at this point I wouldn't put it past them to make it OLED-device exclusive.
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That's one of my top three, all-time favorite iOS interfaces from Apple
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Ftr, there are plenty of times I want to listen to music but can't think of something specific to search for. I like scrolling though the list and being reminded of things I may like to hear atm.
I couldn't up vote this comment enough +100000000000. I seriously can't believe that Apple's been too lazy to include this option in their iOS Music App. There's other options available in the App Store that do this, but come on Apple.
Appears to be no. Music app isn't doing it and I don't see a setting for it. Sorry.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet but Audiobooks are now completely gone from the Music app but are showing in the iBooks app.
Pure unadulterated laziness on Apple's part. No excuse to offer it on desktop ITunes but not in the iOS Music App. Really quite a frustrating oversight.
Oh my god, what.
I'm not complaining about emojis. I'm complaining about the implicit racism in all of the "outrage" over the new diverse emojis. Reading comprehension ftw.
Big question is have they FINALLY fixed the scrubbing feature that has been broken in the Music app since iOS 7?
Oh wow, my bad. I misread your post as basically saying "people weren't complaining about the lack of black emojis". I thought you were suggesting there was no need to change it. Never mind.
I'm so excited about this. A revamped music app, with "Up Next" features is the only really enhancement I've wanted out of iOS since 7 was released.
Finally an iOS update to be excited about! It's been way too long!
Finally an iOS update to be excited about! It's been way too long!