How long have "essentials" been in the iTunes music store? I use Beats and it has a similar sort of labeling albums essentials. I'm wondering if this has been added recently with the new Music app.
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Apple Seeds First iOS 8.4 Beta to Developers With Revamped Music App
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Wow, I thought CarPlay was buggy in 8.2 and 8.3 - it just keeps getting worse with 8.4! Couldn't even get it to work, as to any CarPlay compatible app, while on 8.4 beta (one of the Apple recommended iTunes Radio stations kept playing the same track, followed by one advertisement, over and over again). Had to revert back.
My 5th Gen iPod nano had an FM tuner, though it was eventually replaced by the Bluetooth radio (for wireless headphone support) in the current 7th Gen model.Now, with the music app, The play next feature is nice but, it is not original. I have seen it on the old defunct Music Player called a Zune On a Zune 4 (4gb), it is pretty much like a iPod Nano running Microsoft Software. Two unique things it had was the ability to listen to the radio (imagine doing this on a iPod Nano!) and, the ability to select one song to play after your current track ends. (2007ish technology)
iTunes 11 was really more of a UI revamp than an actual recode. Even iTunes 12, at a core level, hasn't seen a large overhaul. A lot of this is due to its cross-platform design. iTunes is bloated and really does need a true overhaul, but I kind of doubt it will ever happen.
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Yes, rotating the phone now has no effect in Music.
It's not about how dated it may be, it has everything to do with iTunes is a familiar, well known brand name. Associated with the iPod. Beats does not have nearly as well known brand recognition, and, by audiophile standards, also has a bad reputation as being a style over substance brand.
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The 7G nano still has FM radio support.
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CarPlay
Known Issue
Music app crashes when connected to CarPlay.
Straight from the release notes...
A new music app, but no FLAC support??? What the f...!
Has supported ALAC since the beginning. Converting FLAC to ALAC is literally a one step process using FLACTunes.
Says nothing about other music apps, such as Spotify, that do not work on CarPlay now.
Thanks for the tip
. I did not know that the 5th and up Gens have radio support
. To be honest, I have never owned a nano in my life. However I have used it once ages ago!
Lots of work left...
I tried this yesterday. Upgrade and restore went as expected, basic iOS functionality was great....
Music app -
-I don't like the interface, the color choices, the arrangement, etc...this looks, IMHO, like a washed out overly minimalist interface. Please loose the pink for the love of all things HOLY! Or at least let me choose...night mode? Album art still wonky and inconsistent
- the '...' next to the songs that pops up the menu of choices is a nice idea, but in actual use, without a tap you have no idea what's happened with your cloud based content on itunes match. "Is it downloaded? not sure let me tap the '...' and see?"...waste of time...the simple cloud icon indicator was intuitive and quickly communicated status...also when you select to make your track available offline, this hardly perceptible little triangle comes up next to the track indicating download status. it's so hard to read you can't tell what's happening.
-lots of known issues on the dev site, and the issue with Carplay extends out to Bluetooth I believe. I was able to play some tracks before giving it a try in my truck, but when I launched the music app it kept crashing. And then it would never load again.
so i reverted back, hope others are having better luck...
I tried this yesterday. Upgrade and restore went as expected, basic iOS functionality was great....
Music app -
-I don't like the interface, the color choices, the arrangement, etc...this looks, IMHO, like a washed out overly minimalist interface. Please loose the pink for the love of all things HOLY! Or at least let me choose...night mode? Album art still wonky and inconsistent
- the '...' next to the songs that pops up the menu of choices is a nice idea, but in actual use, without a tap you have no idea what's happened with your cloud based content on itunes match. "Is it downloaded? not sure let me tap the '...' and see?"...waste of time...the simple cloud icon indicator was intuitive and quickly communicated status...also when you select to make your track available offline, this hardly perceptible little triangle comes up next to the track indicating download status. it's so hard to read you can't tell what's happening.
-lots of known issues on the dev site, and the issue with Carplay extends out to Bluetooth I believe. I was able to play some tracks before giving it a try in my truck, but when I launched the music app it kept crashing. And then it would never load again.
so i reverted back, hope others are having better luck...
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Is this true?
Does anyone have the answer to this question?
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Went to reddit, got useful information http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/32isjz/some_answers_about_musicapp_in_ios84/
Landscape mode/Cover flow seems to be disabled for anyone asking.
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Yes it's grayish / clear in the now playing menu... I figure they'll change it in the next beta seeing that it gets hard to see on some album covers.
Anyone else having an issue where you were able to install apps now it won't let you?
iPhone 4S
iPhone 4S
They all use the MediaPlayer framework.
Even though Apple make these betas public, they still give you the patch notes from the Developer releases which assume knowledge and understanding. Developers don't need much more than a short note like that to easily understand the issue & how it affects the wider system.