Apple Music Archives

Apple Music Spatial Audio comes to Mercedes

17/10/2022

Apple Music Spatial Audio comes to Mercedes vehicles with support for Dolby Atmos. Apple Music with Spatial Audio comes fully integrated through the MBUX infotainment system first in the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, the EQS and EQS SUV, as well as the EQE, EQE SUV and the S-Class, equipping these vehicles with ‘studio-quality sound better than in any concert hall’, and giving drivers a fully immersive listening experience with unparalleled, multidimensional sound and clarity. Oliver Schusser, Apple’s […]

Apple Music now has 100 million songs

03/10/2022

Apple Music now has 100 million songs and has emphasised the importance on human curation and not algorithms. Announcing this milestone Apple said, “Twenty-one years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the original iPod, we’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music. It’s phenomenal growth by any metric. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command.” They continued, […]

Instagram to rollout messages with music previews

05/04/2022

Instagram is to rollout messages with music previews as part of a package of seven new messaging features announced this week. You can customize your messaging threads by using these new features: Play, pause, and re-play: Enabled by integrations with Apple Music, Amazon Music and Spotify coming soon, you can now share a 30-second preview of that song you just can’t get out of your head, and your friends can listen directly from the chat window. […]

How to get Apple Music 2021 Replay

27/12/2021

With Apple Music Replay, you can relive the music that defined your year. Get insights into your most played artists and albums and get a playlist with your top songs of the year and one for every year that you’ve been subscribed to Apple Music. How to get Apple Music 2021 Replay You need a subscription to Apple Music. Go to replay.music.apple.com. Sign in with the same Apple ID that you use with your Apple […]

DiMA publishes Top 2021 lists

27/12/2021

DiMA publishes Top 2021 lists on Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify and YouTube together with its own Streaming Joy holiday hits playlist. Established pop sensations, breakout stars, and collaborations featuring the top names in rap and reggaeton dominated the top of the streaming music charts in 2021 and appear throughout the ‘best of 2021’ lists, according to a new analysis by the Digital Media Association (DiMA). The review of year-end data and charts from DiMA’s […]

Streaming

Apple Music Review

14/12/2021

History Opened in 2015, Apple Music started as a download service using iTunes. Apple migrated its music service into a streaming model but was initially slow to support non-Apple devices. As the company becomes more dependent on services it has had to embrace competitor devices and support for non-Apple products has continued to improve and now most mainstream devices are supported. Apple announced that it had 60 million paid subscribers in June 2019 and revealed […]

Apple introduces the Apple Music Voice Plan

14/12/2021

Update 14/12/2021 – Apple’s iOS 15.2 release today contained the Apple Music Voice Plan plus a number of other privacy and security updates. The full release notes can be accessed here. Apple introduces the Apple Music Voice Plan, a new subscription tier for Apple Music designed around the power of Siri. The Apple Music Voice Plan offers subscribers access to Apple Music’s catalogue of 90 million songs; tens of thousands of playlists, including hundreds of brand new mood […]