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[Ninja Dom]

I like the new music app. haven't used Apple Music yet, but I have very little need for music streaming services anyway.

It's free. For 3 months. You already know. Plus PLENTY of good hip-hop.

 

[fixedpoint]

Can you guys help me out? Thanks in advance.

So, my wife and I share my iTunes account across our devices.

1) How does family sharing work? Is it a sub account under my email account that is designated to her and her alone or does family sharing simply bind multiple Apple IDs (accounts) together for sharing?

2) If the latter, wouldn't I just continue to sign up for a one member subscription for Apple Music and we continue accessing the service on our respective devices?

Family sharing is a bit weird, but it might just work in your case. It 'tethers' a second (or third) Apple ID to yours; all of your purchases will be available to the other account, and all of their purchases will be charged to your account.

So your wife will also need an Apple ID. You turn on 'Family Sharing' via your iPhone (etc.), confirm things, and send an invitation to your wife's account. After she accepts, you should be good to go!

I'm not sure how simultaneous streaming will work, but if you already share your account anyway it may be worth a shot.

 

[X-Frame]

So I can "heart" entire playlists of mine (I assume my entire library if I wanted to)? And that should help with the service giving me better recommendations in the For You tab?

 

[Ambitious]

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That's just ridiculous. This app is a convoluted mess.

 

[RoodyPooUS]

yay, so much kpop time to get rid of spotify and the same handful of songs

 

[biosnake20]

so you cant play your saved music on itunes? it wont play

 

[Frank Serpico]

I'm definitely trying to download albums for offline and it's not appearing, it seems to be the case for albums I also have on iTunes match


anyone experience this?

 

[hamchan]

Found out just searching "J-pop" and "k-pop" allows you to pick the genre and see all the curated playlists they have for them. A lot of the songs are greyed out and unavailable to stream but it must be available somewhere at least.

 

[Shepard]

No web player?

 

[Enco]

(not my picture)

That's just ridiculous. This app is a convoluted mess.

Yea it's definitely too much.

 

[Incitemaybe]

If you try the 3 month trial does it auto renew? If so how do you turn that off?

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

"Hey Siri, play Beats 1" doesn't work.

Brav-fucking-o Apple.

My biggest challenge is that my car's sound system doesn't support any of the new features of Apple Music. I can't navigate through my car to Apple Radio stations, nor will my iPhone allow me to add things to up next. That leaves me with having to use Siri, which I'm typically actually a fan of, but the above is a ridiculous oversight.

 

[Majine]

I guess we'll have to wait a week or two for an iOS9 beta seed.

 

[SmackCrackleNPop]

I'm definitely trying to download albums for offline and it's not appearing, it seems to be the case for albums I also have on iTunes match


anyone experience this?

When you tap 'make available offline' do you see the download bar appear at the top?

Mine was having issues completing downloads earlier today, but it seems to be better now.

 

[Ashhong]

Can you guys help me out? Thanks in advance.

So, my wife and I share my iTunes account across our devices.

1) How does family sharing work? Is it a sub account under my email account that is designated to her and her alone or does family sharing simply bind multiple Apple IDs (accounts) together for sharing?

2) If the latter, wouldn't I just continue to sign up for a one member subscription for Apple Music and we continue accessing the service on our respective devices?

If you only pay the 9.99 service, every device you want to listen to it on must use the same Apple ID. The family sharing allows 5 additional Apple IDs to use the service, as well as any movies, music, or apps that you purchase. The downside is that all uses 1 credit card. I wish you could do Family Sharing and choose whether to use the parent credit card or your own.

 

[Frank Serpico]

When you tap 'make available offline' do you see the download bar appear at the top?

Mine was having issues completing downloads earlier today, but it seems to be better now.

it does appear in the download que, but it's not listed. I just dowloaded another album that I didn't have with iTunes match and it's not appearing on the list

 

[Majine]

If you only pay the 9.99 service, every device you want to listen to it on must use the same Apple ID. The family sharing allows 5 additional Apple IDs to use the service, as well as any movies, music, or apps that you purchase. The downside is that all uses 1 credit card. I wish you could do Family Sharing and choose whether to use the parent credit card or your own.

If everyone could use their own credit card, then it's not family sharing. It's just sharing, and everyone would do it.

 

[iMax]

If you only pay the 9.99 service, every device you want to listen to it on must use the same Apple ID. The family sharing allows 5 additional Apple IDs to use the service, as well as any movies, music, or apps that you purchase. The downside is that all uses 1 credit card. I wish you could do Family Sharing and choose whether to use the parent credit card or your own.

You can only listen on one device at a time, too.

 

[Got the Shakes]

"Hey Siri, play Beats 1" doesn't work.

Brav-fucking-o Apple.

My biggest challenge is that my car's sound system doesn't support any of the new features of Apple Music. I can't navigate through my car to Apple Radio stations, nor will my iPhone allow me to add things to up next. That leaves me with having to use Siri, which I'm typically actually a fan of, but the above is a ridiculous oversight.

"Play Beats1 on iTunes Radio" should do it. Works for me at least.

 

[hamchan]

Found the mandopop category. Pretty happy about that. Helping me to find new artists easily with these curated playlists for sure.

 

[SmackCrackleNPop]

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That's just ridiculous. This app is a convoluted mess.

It's weird that the company so in love with simplicity has options overload with this app.

 

[mrklaw]

Right, so now I know why my content is not syncing onto my iPad. 90 day rule. I recently watched some TV shows with my US account on my iPad. Now I am locked out of my UK account for the next 67 days still. I didn't realise that even though I can stream full well any song with my UK Apple Music account, I can't add any songs to my cloud library, and my iPad refuses to show my library. What a weird and messy implementation

wait - if you switch to a different region itunes account on an ipad you can't change back within 90 days? I was going to try the japanese store but not if it'll screw me over.

 

[PodcastFips]

"Play Beats1 on iTunes Radio" should do it. Works for me at least.

"Play iTunes Radio" works for me.

 

[IcyStorm]

"Hey Siri, play Beats 1" doesn't work.

Brav-fucking-o Apple.

My biggest challenge is that my car's sound system doesn't support any of the new features of Apple Music. I can't navigate through my car to Apple Radio stations, nor will my iPhone allow me to add things to up next. That leaves me with having to use Siri, which I'm typically actually a fan of, but the above is a ridiculous oversight.

Just tried it, seems to work for me!

I am loving Beats 1.

 

[mrklaw]

If you only pay the 9.99 service, every device you want to listen to it on must use the same Apple ID. The family sharing allows 5 additional Apple IDs to use the service, as well as any movies, music, or apps that you purchase. The downside is that all uses 1 credit card. I wish you could do Family Sharing and choose whether to use the parent credit card or your own.

I think if the other members of the family have credit on their accounts, they can make purchases on their account first, rather than from the central credit card account.

So if you wanted to protect your credit card, a combination of all other users using itunes credit, plus requiring permission if they want to buy something (so they can't without your password or by sending a request) then that may be a workable solution?

 

[LostMyNarbles]

Sorry I haven't followed this too closely. Is the service available for Windows/Android at the moment or is that later down the road?

 

[Majine]

Sorry I haven't followed this too closely. Is the service available for Windows/Android at the moment or is that later down the road?

Windows supposedly very soon, Android this fall.

 

[Got the Shakes]

"Play Beats1 on iTunes Radio" should do it. Works for me at least.

"Play iTunes Radio" works for me.

Just tried it, seems to work for me!

I am loving Beats 1.

"Play Beats1" just worked for me too. Probably should have tried that first. Lol

 

[Mafro]

Still no iTunes update on Mac for me. Fuck it, I'll try again in the morning.

 

[HUELEN10]

Things are going fairly well, except...

This is the message I get on iTunes when inquiring about a track on a Sonic Rush CD I dumped with XLD myself.

 

[Servbot24]

The "Influences" section on the artist pages is awesome. Really enjoying Apple Music so far.

 

[victreeb3l]

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That's just ridiculous. This app is a convoluted mess.

I love how the designer was just like "fuck it put everything on the action sheet".

Its not an elegant solution but it works. I think icons alongside the labels would have helped recognize options faster but *shrug*

 

[entremet]

The videos are a nice touch.

 

[Future]

Can external music apps (like care tunes) play playlists that contain music streamed with apple music?

If so.... Damn sorry spotify, I'm out

 

[strikeselect]

I like how I can tell Siri "play the top songs from (insert month here) (insert year here)"

Takes me on a musical time traveling journey, heh.

 

[Anno]

Siri integration will definitely be the reason I keep this going after three months, I think. I just impulsively wanted to listen to some ED&JFC, told Siri to play me something and it popped right up, despite not having it on my phone locally or even liked. Might even make me look for CarPlay integration when I start looking for a new car soon.

 

[Ashhong]

That's what I hoped the "heart" feature would be . That's really what it needs to be.

Discovered you can click the "Recently Added" writing at the top and it shows a simple list of everything added.

 

[Maximus.]

iCloud Music Library only seems like a good deal if you are worried about internal storage on mobile devices. I currently have decided to not upload my music to iCloud.

Anyone figure out the if there is an issue with the Follow button?

 

[Liquid_015]

Wow. I just spent over an hour moving one playlist (140 songs) from spotify. Sorry but Apple Music has out done themselves. Glorious!

 

[Phreaker]

"Hey Siri, play Beats 1" doesn't work.

Brav-fucking-o Apple.

I just tried it and it worked for me.

 

[Servbot24]

iCloud Music Library only seems like a good deal if you are worried about internal storage on mobile devices. I currently have decided to not upload my music to iCloud.

Anyone figure out the if there is an issue with the Follow button?

I tried just to see what would happen and it gave me an error. Doesn't seem too important though so I probably won't bother.

 

[Mononoke]

Things are going fairly well, except...

This is the message I get on iTunes when inquiring about a track on a Sonic Rush CD I dumped with XLD myself.

Apple doesn't like Sonic.

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

Is there any way to import Spotify playlists?

 

[Kaladin]

One thing I've always wondered.

How do these services analyze the mp3s you have for their matching system?

Couldn't you technically make a white noise mp3 the same length of the song you want, give it the right meta data and have it match?

 

[Ohwiseone]

@ohwiseone is me on the Apple Connect

I like this. It's kinda cool and Beats1 is turning out some really good stuff. Its like a mix between AM/FM and Satellite Radio.

but will Beats1 be the only station? I mean is Beats2 on the way in case Beats1 takes off (which it is)

BTW I love that the DJ's on the Radio station, once their show is over their playlists are already curated and sitting there. That is a cool feature.

 

[infiniteloop]

BTW I love that the DJ's on the Radio station, once their show is over their playlists are already curated and sitting there. That is a cool feature.

where is this?

 

[infiniteloop]

Couldn't you technically make a white noise mp3 the same length of the song you want, give it the right meta data and have it match?

no it's looking at the actual song, not the name or length.

 

[Servbot24]

Seems like Loving an album should Love all the songs in it. With just the album Loved I don't see any way to filter on them.

 

[Ohwiseone]

where is this?

On the phone I found it on the radio tab. if you scroll down it lists "Featured Shows" and if click a DJ it brings up their set from that day.

 

[Shady859]

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That's just ridiculous. This app is a convoluted mess.

That is a 6, I have a 5s and my entire screen is covered. There are 3 sets of options list like that: album, song and currently playing. That is the song options list in your pic which is the longest and luckily only 11 options as I am out of screen.