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Apple's New Ad Explores the Redesigned Apple Music

The best new thing I discovered about Apple Music is that you can turn it off in iOS 10 and prevent it from showing by going to Settings/Music/Toggle off "Show Apple Music" . :)
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McFreggle said:
Funny how they use an iPhone 6 or 6S in the ad. _With_ headphone jack. :)
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Haha, truth!!
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AngerDanger said:
I offer a slight revision to reflect my personal experience with Apple Music:

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I still can't get over the fact that Apple Music takes up three of the navigation tabs at the bottom of the app—tabs that I never use now and just waste space.

I used to be able to go from a list of my songs to a list of albums with one tap anywhere in the app; now we get a submenu that works slightly better than iOS 9's offering.

If you turn Apple Music off, two of three useless tabs disappear and are replaced with… blank space! iOS 9 at least gave us a dedicated playlists tab.
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I concur. They must've heard my rants last year that it needs a total redo. Now they need a redo on the redo.
 
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I absolutely hate the Music app on iOS 10. It made me get my iPod Touch out which is now used again for music and which cannot be upgraded beyond iOS 9.3.

The iOS 10 music app lets you access music the way that Apple wants. Which is not the way that I want. The UI is ****ing ridiculous if you have just a few hundred albums. And guess what, I spend most of the time _listening_ to music, not browsing for new music. My boss would be pissed off in a major way if I spent my time at work browsing for new music.

And another thing: Even on iOS 9, the music app (or something related to it that neither I nor Apple Support could identify) downloads tons of data through 3G, even when I'm playing music that I stored on my iPhone from my Mac. Guys, this is costing me real money. For nothing.
 
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Thanks but no thanks. This new iOS 10 design is rubbish, and a bigger mess than it ever was. I only use Music for the MP3s I have stored locally (having downgraded again to iOS 9, I may add).
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SCOLANATOR said:
Can someone remind me why Apple wasted billions on that junk called Beats rather than buying the genuinely great Spotify?
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I would extend the question into why hasn't Apple bought a quality-first company like Bowers & Wilkins or Sonos, but went for Beats that is all teenage fluff.
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wheelhot said:
Cause Apple has issues buying companies that provide excellent support for Android and iOS ;D (Hint: Waze)
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If they knew what was good for them, Apple would have bought Moovit for maps/transit, and Sparrow for mail before Google bought & gutted it.
 
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gnasher729 said:
The iOS 10 music app lets you access music the way that Apple wants. Which is not the way that I want.
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Spot on.
Music is not designed for people with large libraries, but I guess they designed it to be more like an online service to discover new music.
I'm sure I'd enjoy the music app more if I bought the monthly subscription, but a few thousands songs in my libraries are more than enough for my iPhone, I don't really need to constantly discover new music since I have my playlists and I'm happy with them.
iOS 10 Music was a huge step backwards in terms of usability for me, and I'm glad I'm not the only one complaining about that.
 
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PatriotInvasion said:
Nice ad. But, not sure the redesign makes things simpler in any way. Perhaps I was fine with the original setup because I was a Beats Music user for a year and liked it.

Either way, it's the direction they had to go in. Now it's time to find a way to distance Apple Music from the legacy iTunes ecosystem on the Mac. I want a fresh start with an app that is streaming-first and can reference the music I own from a separate repository --- not all intermingled where it's confusing what is owned versus downloaded from Apple Music and DRM protected.
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Disclaimer: my opinions tend to be unpopular so I recognize that generally, most do not relate. I always fall in love with failed products though, and I'd like to chalk it up to my superior taste, but I'm also not a total A**hole so think what you want.
The only reason why I was willing to go the Apple Music route is the iTunes integration because I was in way too deep to leave that ecosystem and really only did because I had 3 iPod classics fail at the sand time. I have years upon years of music stats that I frequently use to select music choice. I like the native OS integration and also not being limited to what artists are willing to stream their stuff.
I actually liked old Apple Music better for a variety of reasons. It saved like the 20 most recent search queries, was not font size 80, the tab arrangement was more intuitive although that could just be because I was used to it. It was also easier to tell if a song was available offline and easier to avoid saving a song my mistake. Maybe it will get better with time, but Apple Music was very intuitive to me as a person who had never even been on Pandora back in the day, much less Spotify, and I find this update is more challenging.
 
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gnasher729 said:
The iOS 10 music app lets you access music the way that Apple wants. Which is not the way that I want. The UI is ****ing ridiculous if you have just a few hundred albums. And guess what, I spend most of the time _listening_ to music, not browsing for new music. My boss would be pissed off in a major way if I spent my time at work browsing for new music.
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This.

AP seems to be oriented towards young users who still have to discover bands and music that they like. I am 58 however and know 5 decades of music. I discover new music by looking on music news sites and Facebook. I don’t need Apple music for that.

The new IOS 10 app is a disappointment for me. No chronological order in the 4.696 albums I have, no artists pictures in ‘Artist’ view and on my 6S I can’t see the time of the songs. Also, there is no way to directly go to ‘Artist’ when you are listing to an album. This is silly.

I loved the IOS 9 app. I might go back to IOS 9.

I’d wish there was a way to choose between the IOS 9 and IOS 10 interace of the Music app. But that will not happen.
 
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Their getting better.... Apple is getting better with ads. Everyone hates new stuff at first...
 
Absolutely terrible, uninspiring, boring ad made even worse by the blaring, annoying music. Apple should have never brought advertising in-house. This is yet another discipline they simply aren't good at and should have left to the true professionals. Compare this steaming pile of donkey cr@p, along with the recent series of Apple Music ads, to the Think Different campaign or the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac series. This newer stuff seems to be made by high school students, and not particularly good ones at that!
 
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I really, really dislike the new Apple Music. Having been a subscriber since launch day, when I would have described its interface as a train wreck, it's now progressed through "slightly better but still terrible", before regressing into an utter abomination of ugliness and illogicality. It's a total eyesore, with the world's largest and most overly bold fonts needlessly filling the screen. Buttons have been removed or buried, and the UI seems to make even the simplest of tasks a chore.

If Apple Music's catalogue wasn't so much better than Spotify's I'd switch in a heartbeat.
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humanresources said:
I originally thought that the new Apple Music was ugly, but I was wrong. It is in fact, way more beautiful and USEABLE than ever before. It's hip, it's stylish, and is way more integrated than Spotify. (don't tell me the obvious reason why)
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I think it looks like accessibility mode is jammed permanently on. The fonts are so over sized most song names don't fit on screen any more. Even the progress circle is morbidly obese now.

It's the ugliest thing since the whole skeumorphism nonsense.
 
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I don't mind the UI redesign anymore. The transition from iOS 6 to 7 showed me that while I might complain first, I can get used to just about any UI.

What I DON'T like or understand is a stripping away of very basic and logical functions like album sorting by date or name, managing and rearranging Up Next on the fly, forcing Apple Music streaming icons and services to be ever-present in the app for those who don't subscribe and turn Apple Music OFF in Settings.

The bottom icon bar customability in iOS 6 was perfect. If you want Apple Music streaming, turning it on should give you all those icons and features. Turning it OFF should remove those from being in your way of using it like an iPod.
 
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Still not happy with Apple Music, the biggest mistake was to mix iTunes with Apple Music did not like that at all. Second the sound of Apple Music it's not the best, I have an amazing sound system in my car and when play music from Apple Music the sound it's the quality it's not the best very low. Simplicity it's the best thing that's why I keep Spotify music, sounds great great an simple interface it's just simple!!!!!!!
 
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I initially hated the redesign of Apple Music... but after using it more and more, I've really come to love it. It is SO MUCH BETTER and intuitive. I think at this point, my only complaint is the use of fonts and bold lettering...minor, insignificant grumbling.
 
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