Apple iOS Update tomorrow at 8AM
Apple Streaming Radio starts operation at 9AM
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Posted on 06/29/2015 1:08:26 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple directors have been somewhat talkative over the weekend about the imminent release of Apple Music. Former Beats Music CEO Ian Rogers, who now works as a Senior Director of Apple Music, blogged about the product’s launch. He reminisces on the history of digital music and radio saying that seeing Apple Music on stage at WWDC ‘it was hard not to feel like the last 20+ years was leading to this day’.
Interestingly, Apple will be releasing iOS 8.4 at 8 AM on June 30th which includes the newly revamped Music app to support Apple Music. This is slightly earlier than the usual 10 AM release window. The change in scheduling seems to be in service of Beats 1, Apple’s worldwide radio station, which will start streaming from 9 AM on the same day.
Meanwhile, Eddy Cue has also been leaking some tidbits about Apple Music on Twitter …
In a series of tweets, Apple SVP Eddy Cue explained to a customer how Apple Music and iTunes Match work together. Essentially, Apple Music includes the same matching and uploading unrecognised songs process as iTunes Match so Apple users don’t have to subscribe to both Apple Music and iTunes Match to get all the features.
Cue revealed that the same 25,000 song library limit will apply to Apple Music at launch as exists with iTunes Match today. However, for iOS 9, Apple is ‘working’ on raising that limit to 100,000 songs allowing users to take advantage of the additional features with much larger libraries.
Apple Music requires iOS 8.4 due for release at 8 AM on June 30th. For developers currently running iOS 9, Eddy Cue also said that a new iOS 9 beta seed will add support the service. Beats 1 is Apple’s new worldwide 24/7 radio station led by Zane Lowe. It will feature shows and interviews with Dr. Dre, Drake and Elton John.
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I’ve never understood song packrats.
I mean 100,000 songs. Isn’t that about 200 straight days of music? As if you can ever buy or even know that many songs.
Probably about that. I have 17405 songs on my computer (not including way too many Christmas tunes that I keep segregated). According to my music program that is 46 days 8 hours and 12 minutes of music. So, my personal music collection is a little over 17% of that total. I don't even have that large a library compared to some folks I know. Not to mention the fact that I still haven't replicated all the albums I had when I was younger.
Good thing my iPhone 6 on the T-Mobile USA network won’t allow me to update over 4G LTE. I’ll update the phone using iTunes on my desktop computer instead.
Apple has only released a 1 new IOS feature in the last year that I use, and None in OSX for that last 2 years.
Can’t wait till the end of the year to jettison OSX.
I've been collecting music since the early 1970s and for several decades, I added 3-5 full albums to my collection every week. It's just my thing, I guess. Some people collect stamps. Others collect bottle caps. Still others collect matchbox covers and silly stuff like that.
I collect music.
My Christmas collection alone comprises some 15,000 tracks. I'm a fanatic for Christmas music and collect all kinds including Christmas albums from such unlikely sources as The Partridge Family and Bob Dylan.
I'm not sure what to think about the fact that I can now virtually own millions of tracks just by paying a $10 monthly fee to stream whatever I want.
I still think it's better to own as otherwise, I'd be locked into that monthly fee which could very well rise significantly once they get enough people hooked into it. I like the security of being able to unplug from the internet and still have access to all my music.
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