I'm confused what the difference is between "For You" and "New" - are they both just customized channels for me? Why are there two? I wonder if everyone gets the same "New" - I clicked on a ton of Pop Songs, Artists - and under New Music, one of the first recommendations was the explicit version of "Dreams Worth more than Money".
But - overall, the App's pretty fantastic. Every Song I've looked for by every artist is there. Great Integration with my (extensive) iTunes library. And Free for three months. I'm going to cost Apple a fortune (Well, $0.002 * a heckuva lot of plays) over the next three months.
But I'm still confused as to why there is a "New" and a "For You" tab.
[Edit - Seriously, everything seems to be here. All of Taylor's stuff of course, but AC/DC, you name it. I'm guessing there is very little that Spotify has that Apple Music doesn't. ]
[Edit 2 - Holy Crap offlining is easy. You just "Add to my Music, Make Offline - boom. Downloaded onto your iPhone. I've just dumped a bunch of live albums. I wonder what the limit is...]
I think that for the most part Apple has the same streaming contracts as Spotify/Rdio/Pandora/etc.
There are still a number of albums/songs/artists missing that simply aren't available anywhere (Tool and The Great Gatsby soundtrack are two I always check).
But it seems that I should be able to mix tracks I own with streamed tracks, which is going to be the killer feature for me personally.
Having used Rdio for many years now, and Zune Pass previously, comparing apples-to-apples (no pun intended) with will be interesting.
As an aside, you note AC/DC, which had been missing on Spotify and other music services. However, AC/DC was actually added to Spotify today. I'm just glad I can add them to my cheesy 80's rock playlists now :)
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I'm confused what the difference is between "For You" and "New" - are they both just customized channels for me? Why are there two? I wonder if everyone gets the same "New" - I clicked on a ton of Pop Songs, Artists - and under New Music, one of the first recommendations was the explicit version of "Dreams Worth more than Money".
I'm guessing it's because I clicked on Drake.
Ballsy recommendation, regardless. Also, pretty good.
But - overall, the App's pretty fantastic. Every Song I've looked for by every artist is there. Great Integration with my (extensive) iTunes library. And Free for three months. I'm going to cost Apple a fortune (Well, $0.002 * a heckuva lot of plays) over the next three months.
But I'm still confused as to why there is a "New" and a "For You" tab.
[Edit - Seriously, everything seems to be here. All of Taylor's stuff of course, but AC/DC, you name it. I'm guessing there is very little that Spotify has that Apple Music doesn't. ]
[Edit 2 - Holy Crap offlining is easy. You just "Add to my Music, Make Offline - boom. Downloaded onto your iPhone. I've just dumped a bunch of live albums. I wonder what the limit is...]
I think that for the most part Apple has the same streaming contracts as Spotify/Rdio/Pandora/etc.
There are still a number of albums/songs/artists missing that simply aren't available anywhere (Tool and The Great Gatsby soundtrack are two I always check).
But it seems that I should be able to mix tracks I own with streamed tracks, which is going to be the killer feature for me personally.
Having used Rdio for many years now, and Zune Pass previously, comparing apples-to-apples (no pun intended) with will be interesting.
As an aside, you note AC/DC, which had been missing on Spotify and other music services. However, AC/DC was actually added to Spotify today. I'm just glad I can add them to my cheesy 80's rock playlists now :)