Apple Music

“There’s a lot of work going into making the product better,” Mr. Schusser said. “Our focus is on editorial and playlists, and obviously we have teams all around the world working on that, but we’re also adding features and cleaning up certain things.” Apple Music He also said Apple takes a long term view on…

Apple Music is losing users, but maybe not as fast as MusicWatch says MusicWatch came up with its numbers through a survey of 5,000 consumers over the age of 13 in the United States. Along with the 48 percent who dropped Apple Music, the survey also showed that 11 percent of iOS users are trying…

Launch iTunes. Select the My Music tab or Playlists tab. Either will work. Click the View drop down menu. It's on the right side of the iTunes window just below the search field. It shows your current view type; in my case, that's Songs, but it can also show Albums, Artists, Composers, or Genres. Click…

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Here's how to stop Apple Music from using your iPhone's data plan for streaming music: Tap Settings Tap iTunes & App Store Turn off Use Cellular Data Use iTunes & App Store settings (left) to disable Apple Music cell streaming (right) That limits Apple Music to streaming over WiFi connections, which means you won't burn…

Not every Apple device supports Apple Music. Does yours? Computers Mac On the Mac you'll need iTunes 12.2 for Apple Music, which doesn't seem too bad because Apple supports that all the way back to OS X 10.7.5. But for Apple Music support you need OS X 10.9.5 or newer, which means you need to…

Beats 1 has its own request show and you can call in your favorite songs Request lines for Beats 1 are available in several countries including the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, Australia, and more. Apple also has a world-wide phone number listeners can call. Here's the current phone number list for…

At best you'd think, “My TV doesn't display UV or IR so it won't make any difference since I can't see those frequencies anyway.” At worst you'd be concerned about getting a sunburn or a heat rash. Now imagine I said, “You should listen to my special audio version of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue…

I don't buy music from iTunes. I would, though, if you'd sell me lossless files. You could even use your own lossless format. It's called Apple Lossless (ALAC). Look it up. It's a thing. It sounds great, and I can play ALAC files right on my iPhone. You wouldn't have to do much other than…

You can make your iTunes Radio stations, no problem. If you want to go ahead and create your own station, click on “Radio” from the navigation bar at the top of iTunes’ window… …and then click the plus button.  At that point, iTunes’ll ask you to enter an artist, genre, or song to create your…

Microsoft released an iPhone and iPad compatible version of its Xbox Music app on Monday ahead of Apple's iTunes Radio launch. Apple has been testing its music streaming service with iOS 7 beta and is expected to officially launch it when the new version of its iPhone, iPad and iPod touch operating system ships. Xbox…

One of my favorite iTunes shortcuts is listed right under our virtual noses, but I still think many folks don't know about it. The command is within the Controls menu, and it's labeled Go to Current Song. As you can see, the keyboard shortcut for that is Command-L. So scroll far away from the currently…

Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Beats Electronics CEO Jimmy Iovine in February to discuss a possible partnership in a music streaming service. Reuters reported that the meeting was sparked by a streaming service called Project Daisy that Beats announced in January for a late 2013 launch. The question is, what's Apple's angle? Beats CEO,…

In the class action, plaintiffs are seeking to find out exactly what Mr. Jobs testified to in the first trial regarding Apple’s role in digital music licensing and sales. They have claimed that the testimony is needed to determine how much digital music licenses are worth.TMO Artist’s Rendering of Transcript The plaintiffs in the class action against…

Simplify, by Pixel Mates, provides a full-featured mini-player and desktop widget for iTunes, Rdio, and Spotify. The app makes it easy to control your music playback even when you have many applications filling your desktop real estate.

To see what didn’t make the cut, go into iTunes. You should have a new column when you’re in list view that looks like this:If an icon appears in that column next to a song, it wasn’t added to iTunes Match. As you may know, you can click the column headers to sort by them,…

iTunes MatchiTunes Match is Apple’s $24.99 per year service that matches all the music in your music library to songs on the company’s iCloud servers and then makes those songs available to all of your iTunes-enabled devices and computers. Similar to what the company already offers for iTunes purchases, iTunes Match will match songs gotten…

iTunes Match Apple is scheduled to launch iCloud on Wednesday, as well as iOS 5, both of which are being pushed out ahead of the iPhone 4S launch on Friday. iCloud is the name of Apple’s wide-ranging cloud service that includes many services. One of those services allows users to access their iTunes purchases from…

I want the best sound I can get when I listen to music, and Bongiovi DPS app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch makes that easy. When my friends who are really into sound augmentation and adjustment start showing me their latest achievement my eyes glaze over. Not because I am not interested, but because…

The service, often called “iCloud” or “Music Locker,” will offer users online storage for the music in their iTunes library. Record labels Warner, Sony and EMI have apparently already signed licensing deals with Apple, leaving only Universal to come onboard.Those licensing deals will let Apple’s service mirror user’s music libraries without requiring customers to upload…

Sony hops on the iTunes cloud storage trainNews of the deal between Apple and Sony comes from unnamed sources with insider information, according to Bloomberg.Apple’s online music service is expected to include cloud-based music storage and streaming playback support, support for downloading music to multiple devices, and higher audio quality support compared to competing online…

Slacker RadioSubscribers can listen to Slacker music channels through a Web browser, iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, as well as BlackBerry and Android OS devices. Users can build their own Slacker stations based on artist, tag songs as favorites, and can temporarily download songs for playback when an Internet connection isn’t available.Slacker’s basic service is…

The iTunes Festival is an annual event Apple holds in London throughout the month of July, with a different band featured each night. The company has been slowly unveiling the lineup for the event, with Noah & The Whale being the 17th band announced. Noah & The Whale are billed as an indie folk band…

A few years ago when Rock Band and Guitar Hero were at the peak of their popularity, I said to my son, “If you spent half as much time playing a real guitar as you spend pushing colored buttons on that plastic Xbox control, you’d play like Stevie Ray Vaughan or Eric Johnson by now.”…