Apple Music Archives

Classical music front-end for Apple Music

24/11/2019

Concertino is an open source classical music front-end for Apple Music. It uses Open Opus data and combines it with automated analysis of the Apple Music’s own metadata in order to create an adequate user experience for classical music. It relies on crowdsourced curation as well for additional verification and refinement. Concertino is web-based with an iOS app in development and is free to use. It can be found here. The app is fairly straightforward […]

Apple Music launches Replay playlist

21/11/2019

Apple Music launches Replay playlist, a collection of your favourite music from 2019 and every year you’ve subscribed to Apple Music. This is similar to Spotify’s Wrapped feature and like any playlist can be added to your Apple Music Library making it possible to be streamed at any time including when offline. Unlike Spotify’s offering, Apple Music Replay is continually updated during the year and your Replay playlist can be shared with friends or posted […]

Apple’s iOS 13 adds 100,000 radio stations

28/09/2019

Apple’s iOS 13 adds 100,000 radio stations in a new partnership with TuneIn which gives listeners access on all Siri-enabled devices and Apple Music. The collaboration coincides with the introduction of a new radio experience on Apple devices which includes iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, CarPlay and HomePod. TuneIn brings their long-time integration expertise to Apple by offering sports fans, news devotees and radio enthusiasts alike the ability to hear the voices they trust on […]

Apple Music launches beta web player

16/09/2019

Apple Music launches beta web player which works in any browser on PCs, Macs and Linux. Subscribers can access the Apple Music web version at beta.music.apple.com and sign in with their Apple ID. The beta has been a long time in the making as we saw a preview in June 2018 which used Apple’s MusicKit developer software. At launch, the service includes core features, like searching and playing songs from the Apple Music catalogue, searching […]

Apple Music launches ‘New Music Daily’ playlist

06/09/2019

Apple Music launches ‘New Music Daily’ playlist, the playlist formerly known as Best of the Week which is now being refreshed daily. According to Apple Music ‘New Music Daily (formerly known as Best of the Week) is our home for the latest must-hear songs – the playlist that never sleeps.’ The playlist can be added to your library (like any other playlist) and will be updated automatically as the song list changes. To find out […]

Apple renames ‘Mastered for iTunes’

18/08/2019

Apple renames ‘Mastered for iTunes’ calling it ‘Apple Digital Masters’ and grouping all tracks that have been encoded in one place. Mastered for iTunes was launched in 2012 and is a set of tools and guidelines that encouraged record producers to use studio quality 24-bit 96 kHz originals to produce the 256 kbps AAC files that iTunes streams. Despite many press reports Apple Digital Masters are not HiRes and there are no publicly announced plans […]

Apple Music 6 months free deal for US students

Apple Music offers 6 month free trial to US students

12/07/2019

Apple Music offers 6 month free trial to US students – the offer running up till the 26th September 2019. After the free trial students can sign up for just $4.99 per month, a 50% discount on the regular subscription. In order to get the student discount, you must verify your eligibility through Unidays. Simply enter your college or university email address and school name into the Unidays form. In addition to the deal on […]