The Apple Beat: Taking a first spin at Apple Music

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple’s collected a vast amount of data through the years (as has Beats) on what music lovers like, there are powerful curation algorithms that ensure that there’s always something new or something surprising for each user each time they fire up the service.

Apple’s new Music Service ‘Apple Music’ kicked off yesterday and was made available to millions of iOS and Mac OS users via respective updates to iOS (8.4) and iTunes on OS X Yosemite. Apple Music is available now in 115 countries.

The service is Apple’s biggest play in music since it created the iPod a decade ago. Since then, iTunes has become the largest music seller in the world and practically changed the game for music distribution and the digital age.

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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

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.

Beats 1, Apple Music's global 24-hour radio station has started transmitting

iOS 8.4 beta testers in the US, who are using the latest version of the iPhone and iPad operating system which contains the new Apple Music service, can now receive the preliminary transmission of Beats 1, the global 24-hour radio station component of the new music service. With transmissions coming from NY, LA and London, Beats 1 boasts exclusive artist interviews, live performances as well as curated playlists of the latest, greatest that the music world has to offer (at least according to the DJs curating the music).

Slated to launch in earnest later on today, listeners who 'tune in' will hear the track "1/2" by Brian Eno, from his album "Ambient 1: Music for Airports." Apple Music, together with Beats 1 and the Connect interactive feature, is expected to launch one hour after the Tuesday launch of iOS 8.4, at 11 a.m. ET. No word on if and when Canadian users will receive the update or if Apple Music will be working when it does.

Source: International Business Times

Update on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 10:59AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

iOS 8.4 is now available for download in Canada. The file on an iPhone 6 Plus is 222 MB.