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Over 250 New Mood and Activity Apple Music Playlists Now Rolling Out
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I don't think you understand how this works. It isn't ON TOP of Apple Music, it's essentially a lower tier of Apple Music, a "gateway drug", or a service that's ideal to go along with one of those new colored HomePod minis, for someone who just wants to put a HomePod mini in their kitchen/whatever and tell it to play music. But, hey, great reason to get outraged.
The suggestion I heard is that it's positioned to compete with music subscriptions on other smart speakers - for instance, Amazon has a $4 plan if you just want to use their music service on an Echo.
What a coincidence that it was announced right alongside new (colors of) HomePod minis. You don't think that was intentional, do you? A few months before Christmas?
By listing how it incentivizes a specific segment of a consumer base away from another service? That’s not a negative description.
Interesting. Getting everything ready before the voice only apple music plan launches!
Totally agree. Although my guess is:
1) Spotify is already competitively priced in SG so there’s very little value proposition for this AM tier
2) Siri has a hard enough time already with my friends’ Singaporean accents — I think they know this would be even more frustrating in SG than to other users elsewhere (and boy is that saying something)
Many of you might not remember the iPod shuffle. It was an iPod with no screen and no controls. You could load songs onto it from your computer, but all you could do from the iPod controls was play, pause, and skip songs. It was a huge success. Apple Music Voice reminds me of that.
Truth. I've tried a few Apple Music trials, no matter what artist, genre I pick...usually classic rock, rock. Artists from the 60s-90s...maybe a few from 00s. Drake appears & always "recommended for me," under the "For You" tab.
Fine, I know may are fans...I'm not!
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"Typical Monday morning at your house?"
No! I don't own a pool or even tattoos.
Spotifys algorithm has been pathetic for me. Never managed to properly gauge my interests and seems to have a fantasy with Drake and Podcasts that I don’t care about.
I’ve used Apple Music for around 4-6 months now and it’s been very good at getting my interests locked in. The rest of my family has also been using it with CarPlay and HomePods and it’s also correctly identified their interests according to them.
I know for sure that Apple Musics recommendation system a few years ago was a total joke but it’s certainly gotten a lot better.
I’ve even did the “recommend this less” thing, and it just will not take a hint. I thought Apple was into machine learning?
Here’s a screenshot. I’m listening to David Bowie and other classic artists like The Doors, Elton John, etc. It’s all I listen to.
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Here's a radical idea. Forget this silly crap and make a serious effort to have a jazz and blues library anywhere near what Spotify or Pandora have. Then, I'll subscribe.
All I want is for Apple Music to let me organize playlist folders the way I want. I don't understand why you can't put playlists not-created-by-you into folders. Incredibly frustrating.
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When music or moves launch in some you tries and not in others, the reason is often something to do with per-country licensing rights for the media - different company or companies in charge of that area and have differing terms in their existing contracts, or someone believes the new variant of the service isn’t covered under the existing contracts and wants to renegotiate. Sure, could be unrelated, something to do with Siri or some such, but in general. Look at licensing.
Songza was amazing! You probably already know this, but it was bought by Google, then the playlists were merged with Google Play Music. Now that Google Music is Youtube Music, some of those playlists actually live on there ?
Welp. You're stuck listening to one of the most popular artists for the past decade.
(You have to go to the ARTIST page. That's the album page.)
Yep, you are correct. The problem is that I have a Home Pod, an Apple TV and an Airplay 2 Capable Stereo system all in the same room so saying play in *room* won't give me good results. I suppose I could create rooms for each device, but that seems silly. I can tell the Home Pod to play music on the stereo (Hey Siri, play *playist* on Stereo). I have a homepod in a bedroom that should be playing at the same time and if I say "Hey Siri, play *playlist* on Stereo and in master bedroom" it plays on the stereo but not in the bedroom.