Apple Music is finally here. The iOS 8.4 update hit yesterday and we’ve been exploring Apple’s new music streaming service to see if it lives up to the hype. Listen to our first impressions, problems, and our opinions about Apple Music. The Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and through our dedicated RSS feed.
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Here’s what we discussed in this episode:
- Apple releases iOS 8.4 with Apple Music, Beats 1, and all-new Music app
- Apple updates Beats Music for iOS to enable migration to Apple Music
- Beats 1 Radio officially goes live on iOS 8.4, Apple publishes schedule on Tumblr
- How to cancel/stop Apple Music subscriptions from automatic renewal after free trial
- Hands-on with Apple Music (Video)
- Apple releases iTunes 12.2 update with Apple Music + Beats 1 support
- Eddy Cue: New iOS 9 beta with Apple Music coming ‘early next week’, bitrate better on WiFi
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Since launch every redio station besides Beats 1 and BBC World Service has been doing this for me—every time:
http://i.imgur.com/Ou5ahc1.jpg
Interestingly that message disappeared for me once I subscribed. Still believe it’s bug, though.
That was happening to me, but now it’s disappeared.
The whole Apple Music app is a buggy mess to be frank. Flickering text, broken links, and flat out lock ups. It’s a total mess, and that’s without mentioning the meagre selection of content on offer.
Hey Benjamin, you keep saying that the only UK streaming service is Spotify. That hasn’t been true for a long time. Google Music, Xbox Music, and Sony’s equivalent (whatever that used to be called until they killed it a few months back) are all subscription music services which have been available here for years.
According to Apple’s support documentation for Family Sharing (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201079), all the members of the “family” use the same credit card for purchases. Wouldn’t that requirement make setting up an Apple Music “family” account with friends a bad idea? Am I missing something here?