Apple this year he took his music business to a new level. After long-term speculation, he introduced a streaming service Apple Music and alongside it, he launched Beats 1, a globally broadcast online radio, in which the best presenters take turns and we listen to interviews with various musicians from all over the world. For example, Dr. Dre, who through her announced the release of his third album - the soundtrack to the movie Straight Outta Compton. Radio and the streaming service are very well connected, but this does not necessarily mean that they should Apple Music was the best streaming service in the world. After all, competition has existed for a long time and thanks to this, people can form different opinions - just as we share different opinions in our editorial office LsA.
So let's look at the opinion of two editors who have more experience with the service and knew how to form an opinion on whether it is Apple Music quality service or not.
Spring
Apple Music was a service for me that at first I thought would not be as good as Spotify and when it was said that the service would cost €10 per month in our country, I was skeptical about it. However, the conditions have improved and the current price of €5 is friendly to me, and I plan to use the service in the future as well. On Apple Music I really like the connection with my music library, but it has happened to me with some albums that na iPhone a completely different song appeared to me than the one I had in my library. In my case it was the fact that Horkýže Slíže had a song called "Intro" on two albums and only one of them was available on iTunes. Apple Music so she thought it was the same song and replaced it for me with one from a newer album - not that it wasn't bad. What I like about the music library link is that I no longer have to use two or three different apps to listen to music and add it to my library (iTunes, Spotify, Music). I know that I have practically every song I can think of and I don't have to worry about syncing songs with my Mac. In short, I have all the tracks available and for example today I found the newly released Motorhead album, Bad Magic.
Speaking of the computer, now is the time for criticism. That what Apple done with itunes? I think it would like to completely redesign the iTunes application from the ground up and make an environment that looks more like iOS application. New iTunes, enriched with Apple Music, in my opinion, is very confusing and needs a general order. I can think of a few options for improvement here - link Apple Music with iTunes, so when I like an album or song, I can buy it immediately. Now, when I want to do this, I have to switch from Apple Music to the iTunes store, I have to search for the album again before I can buy it. Apple but it was always about simplicity and I think there is room for improvement. Likewise, I think it could use some tidying up of the radios - iTunes now offers you two different internet radio sections - while one has Beats 1 and other stations from the workshop Applu, the second section offers all the other internet radios in the world. Why not unify it? It would also like to unify the search, which would search everything everywhere, not just in individual sections of the iTunes application. Or it would like to create a separate iTunes section again Store, because switching between it and App Store is a horror – des.
So to sum it up, Apple Music is a very good service in my opinion, but it only applies to iPhone, as it is now clear that the Mac is simply not ready for the new era. But I'll wait until the future WWDC will change. But I like the service itself, even if I personally only use some sections of it - for example, I never once turned on the iTunes Connect service, something like a social network that should have learned from the failed Ping project. Also, I mainly listened to Beats 1 in the beginning and now I don't listen to it that often. Mainly because I prefer to play my own playlists. But Beats 1 is different – it's free and everyone has their own taste in music.
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In fact, when it was speculated that Apple will introduce a new music streaming service built on Beats Music, so it went in one ear, I wrote it, and then out the other. I've never been fond of such services because they simply couldn't offer me what I listen to. I'm not really interested in mainstream songs and albums and I stick somewhere to the underground, which is simply on iTunes, Spotify or Apple Music you won't find it by any chance.
When Apple Music came out, so I tried it out immediately, because I like to test something new, especially when it's a service from the workshop Applu. I like the idea that you don't have to download any other app and you have Apple Music in the Music app and on the Mac in iTunes, and both of these systems are a little closer together thanks to all the synchronization. That's what I like about AppI always liked it.
But now to the service itself. Personally, I find it incredibly confusing, complicated and, most importantly, unfinished on both the Mac and the iPhone. I uploaded it to iCloud Music Library all my albums from iTunes and to this day at least 30% of them don't work at all and another 10% have been replaced with complete nonsense. I have no choice but to take the entire library, back it up to an external drive, then probably delete the entire content in iTunes and try to upload it again somehow, and I don't want to do that at all, which is also proven by the fact that I haven't gotten around to it in two months. I don't really understand what a normal person would do who barely understands how to turn on a Mac and browse seznam.cz. He would only have to Apple Store or in our case to one of the resellers. You can see what a lot of my broken albums and songs look like on the iPhone below.
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Now I was complaining more about iTunes Music Library, so let's focus directly on Apple Music. I have already hinted that in my opinion it is Apple Music unclear and I stick to that. I don't listen to the radio, I prefer to play my own songs. From Apple Music I sometimes add something to my library, but that's it. I find Connect confusing, so I visit it about once a week, only to find out it's useless. In the category For you I keep getting offered a U2 album, but I'm not interested at all, which I am. Applu has clearly said it about 5 times already and it doesn't fit my style of music at all, so it's clear that he Apple he is waiting for everyone to promote him.
I even used the section once Intro to "The Artist" and it turned out terribly and I just convinced myself that Apple Music has a long way to go. Two songs from the playlist offered didn't work at all, and one song was in it three times. You can see everything in the screenshot below.
After the end of the three-month free trial period with Apple Music I definitely don't count on it. I'm not going to pay monthly for something that doesn't have much to offer me, and even if I do listen to something, it doesn't even work properly. Overall, I'm Apple Music and a new application Music na iOS has lost some of its simplicity. To add songs to the queue, you have to click two or three times, the menu when you click on the "three dots" is confusing (on iOS 9 is better) and the heart and share button in the control center just spoils the overall miniminimalist design.
Roman
Sometimes I feel like a dinosaur among the boys, who doesn't even know about the many features he has. I'm looking forward to the new iOS or iPhone all year round, because about three times a month I find something that I was completely unfamiliar with and when I cheerfully write it to Štěv or Dan, I quickly understand that this function has iPhone about two years.
So I confess without torture, Apple Music I have never used and never will. I used to do it because I had to. Fortunately, now I only write articles when I need to or when I really want to write something. I suddenly realized that a lot of things that I used to have to use for the sake of my readers, in order to provide them with the best possible reviews and articles, I no longer have to use and I don't mind it at all.
Overall, I listen to music less than I used to, and when I go out with my dog, I prefer to listen to birds in the park or to a dog barking at a squirrel and not being able to understand that it climbed a tree and he can't. When I want to listenchat music, I'd rather pick up a CD, put it in the set and, with Diplomatiček and Partagas in my hand, listen to Ian Anderson whistling along or Roger Waters tearing down the wall. And actually, when I think about it, I have a much bigger Apple Music Before those two fools get the better of me, I have the sounds of nature that I will never exhaust.
I agree with Roman.
@Roman maybe you should add your opinion more often to the current "apple topics", it amused.
That is, if it doesn't demotivate your editor :)
Ad Spring:
You don't have to go to the store at all. You can search for an artist, then albums, three-pointer and make it available offline. You don't have to switch between at all Apple Music and iTunes.
Ad Dan:
I have, in iTunes, over 1000 of my own original CDs - all in ALAC format. After linking with iCloud I haven't found a single error yet. It didn't rewrite a single song for me, although of course I haven't gone through all of them lately. Sometimes it happens that they change the artwork of the CD cover. This can also be managed.
More ad Dan:
They were available on Apple at the time of release Music new remastered LED Zeppelin CD and Deep Purple concerts. On Apple Music is a practically complete collection of what was worth in music. The Beatles are still missing. Of course, I have it completely on CD and that's it Cloude. For me/her Apple Music clear choice. Not to mention that after paying the family share, the son-in-law and wife also have access to all the interesting music.
And finally, a quote from your review - "I don't listen to the radio, I prefer to play my songs. OF Apple Music I sometimes add something to my library, but that's it. I find Connect confusing, so I visit it about once a week, only to find out that it's useless again." I'm not surprised by your assessment. However, the fault in this case will not be on my side. Apple Music,. but rather the user:o)
dotcom: It's quite possible that the fault will be mine, but I think so Apple could somehow be interesting. However, I'm not the only one who finds it confusing.
Apple Music™ is an excellent service for me. I've been using iTunes since the first version under Mac OS 9.2, but the current version still doesn't seem confusing to me (although maybe I'm a dinosaur too).
Although I could criticize iTunes for one thing, namely that it is stored in a subsection, say, Czech, Slovak music, classic rock and the like. I know that playlists can be made this way, but that's just copying and pasting songs. With large collections, orientation, or rather not orientation, but rather a way to get to the performer is a little slower. And not to mention if, for example, a person has a collection like ABC off Bllues, where 52 albums are stacked in a row and this is the one that is open and you want to go elsewhere. Just getting to the root from this sub-content is a problem, because there is not even room to press the first letter of the performer. They could take this into account. Otherwise, I don't mind Tunes either.
Can someone please iOs merge playlists? The original ones appif they are max about 10 tracks and I need it to play longer.
So, because of the combination of both libraries, I also prefer AM to Spotify, but I find the service unreliable (especially offline stuff), unreliable (like recommending the same few U2 playlists over and over again) and pointless (why should everyone listen tochat one global radio?). I didn't turn on Connect either, I already have FB for that.
With the iTunes team, I agree with Jar. The only thing that bothers me is that We Music is number one on iTunes and iOS on the last one. It can be seen that iTunes on Apple Music it is not debugged and does not offer the right UX. Plus if bugs are added in the form of non-functioning ones airplay with Beats1, scrollbars without inertia, lags with retina displays, but simply user experience 0 points. It would require iTunes to be completely redone and unified with iOS as far as sections are concerned, I would also be in favor of section icons like v iOS instead of a bunch of text…