Tag: Apple Music

March 2, 2021

Apple has provided developers testing its betas with the third build of macOS Big Sur 11.3 to try out. The newest builds and configuration profiles can be acquired from the Apple Developer Center, or as an over-the-air update on hardware […]

February 22, 2021

Spotify is preparing to offer higher quality music streams to subscribers in a number of markets, with Spotify HiFi set to offer lossless audio, a feature currently not available on Apple Music. In its ongoing bid to fend off Apple’s […]

October 30, 2020

Apple One, a bundle combining services like Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, and Apple Arcade into one monthly subscription, is now available. The bundle was first announced at an event last month, before Apple confirmed the release date yesterday. Currently, […]

October 12, 2020

Developers who provide the ability to transfer Spotify playlists to Apple Music, or other services, are reportedly being told their access to the Spotify SDK will be revoked. As it continues to say Apple “threatens our collective freedoms to listen, […]

September 2, 2020

Cell customers on the UK’s EE carrier can now choose deals that add Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade as part of their monthly fee, meaning cost savings in certain configurations. Having previously offered its broadband customers a deal […]

August 21, 2020

There’s so much more to Apple Music than the new radio stations. Here are the hidden, the downright obscure, and the best features of the service. Apple Music is this giant success, this bargain service, and the one that’s taken […]

August 11, 2020

Apple this week relaunched a beta version of the Apple Music web player with a few tweaks that bring the service in line with corresponding app versions set to debut as part of iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur. The […]

April 29, 2019

More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify Premium, the company has announced. Spotify reached the milestone by growing paid subscribers by 32-percent year-on-year. Including free subscribers, Spotify now has a total of 217 million monthly active users […]

November 30, 2018

Amazon’s Echo smart speakers already support a variety of music services, including Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. And starting on December 17th, Apple Music will join this little cohort. Apple Music users will be able to ask Alexa to play […]

July 6, 2018

The unidentified U.S.-based distributor shared subscriber counts for the streaming services with Digital Music News, advising that while both Apple Music and Spotify have more than 20 million subscribers in the market, Apple is now a “hair ahead.” Exact counts […]

June 25, 2018

The new AirPods will be higher-end that the current model, says Bloomberg in a new report on Monday. Reportedly, “internal discussions” are ongoing about the product, with the company considering biometric sensors for the device like a heart rate monitor. […]

January 23, 2018

The HomePod is designed to work with an Apple Music subscription. It learns preferences and tastes that are shared across devices. HomePod’s Siri implementation can handle advanced searches within Apple Music’s catalog, so users can ask questions like, “Hey Siri, […]

July 8, 2015

Let me get this out of the way: I don’t love Apple Music. But I didn’t love the original iPod, either. I didn’t consider buying Steve Jobs’ little white phenomenon when it was first released. No need, I already had […]