Spotify user creates playlist for most of Beats 1 music

Spotify user Peter Bowles is taking on a rather tedious role. He’s recreating most of the music being played on Apples new radio streaming service and putting them into a Spotify playlist. It was inevitable that this would happen. Now, if you just want to listen to the tunes being played on Beats 1, you can check it out. But yes, you won’t be hearing Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden, and Julie Adenuga on this playlist. You also obviously won’t be hearing Taylor Swift’s songs and even the new Pharrell song (which Bowles replaced with “Happy” instead). We’re not sure how long they’re going to keep this up. But this’ll help you see what direction the new radio service is going in with playlists like these. Of course, if you want to check it out through Apple, they've released the playlist curated by Zane Lowe already.

Source: The Verge

Beats 1 Radio takes in song requests

Want to hear your jam playing on Apple’s new live radio service? Well, you can request for it and possibly hear it through Beats 1 radio’s new Requests segment hosted by Travis Mills. Apple Music’s Tumblr shows the listing of numbers you can call to request a song. Countries like Canada, the US, the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Ireland, and Italy can send in their requests. The segment will be playing at 5:00p.m. Pacific Time. We don’t know though if they plan to play the requested songs outside of Mills’ show.

Source: Apple Music | Via: MacRumors

The Olympus Air camera features detachable lenses, smartphone not included

Haven't we seen this before? A camera that needs a smartphone to serve as a viewfinder and controller? While Sony did release the QX line of point and shoots that similarly needed a smartphone to serve as the brains and eyes of the camera. The big difference between that and the Olympus Air camera, is that Olympus is offering a standalone sensor and mount that can use any of the 20 existing Micro-Four Thirds lenses available in the market.

The Olympus Air is going to cost $400 when it ships (preorders are available now). It will feature a high-resolution 16mp sensor, 1/16000th of a second silent shutter and 10 fps burst shooting. Capture RAW, JPEG, & HD movies.

iOS 8.4 now available in Canada with trial of Apple Music

It's a very exciting day for music lovers as Apple's latest update for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, iOS 8.4 brings the anticipated Apple Music service which blends live streaming radio, music collection and curation plus access to artists via the Connect feature.

It wasn't announced is Canada would be getting the three-month trial period of Apple Music but the service seems to be available and we've been checking it out. So far, it does offer an intuitive and easy to navigate interface that makes it easy to select specific genres and artists as well as access music you already bought on iTunes.  To enable Apple Music, go to Software Update feature on your iOS device, download and install the update and the trial of Apple Music should be available to you.