iTunes is updated to version 12.2 and includes integration with Apple Music

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It was expected. What nobody understands is why they have taken so long to launch an iTunes update that would allow us to enjoy Apple Music. They should have released iTunes 12.2 at the same time as iOS 8.4, but hey, we already have it available. In addition to the integration with Apple Music, I would highlight as the most «important» novelty, in quotation marks, the three dots that appear next to each song or artist, which allow us to start a new station based on our preferences.

Also, to improve personalized recommendations, there's a new heart next to every song, artist or record, so that the system will remember our choice to take it into account in future recommendations. The downside of the recommendations is that I think it is an option that will only be available to subscribers once the three-month trial period is over. I hope I am wrong, but I think I am.

When we are listening to a custom station, the song rewind / rewind button turns into a star. By clicking on the star, we will be shown several options, among which I would highlight "never reproduce this song." It is very likely that among the hundreds of songs we listen to there is one that we do not like at all. If that is the case, we can prevent that song from playing again on any device that uses our Apple ID. From the same star we can add the song to our wish list or add it to our music. star-itunes

The new icon is no longer red with the white note. In the same way as the iOS icon, now the iTunes icon has a white background below the colored note, all wrapped in a full-color circle. Honestly, I like it. I had already seen captures with this mix of colors and wanted to see them in the final version.

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Finally, as you can see in the iTunes screenshot, the "For you", "New", "Radio" and "Connect" tabs are added. In these tabs we can see the same as in the iOS version:

  • For you: personalized recommendations based on our tastes.
  • New: the new songs that might interest us
  • Radio: here we will have available Beats 1 and generic radios such as "Pop songs" or "Here and now". For personalized radios, you have to touch on the three dots next to a song, artist or album and choose the option "new station of the artist" or "of the song". Writing these lines I have realized that we cannot start a station from a style, but for this it is enough to start a station with a group that plays the style of which we want to start a station.
  • Connect: the social part of Apple Music. There is little content at the moment, but I think that in the future it could work. They are already publishing photos and we can comment if we have an Apple Music account (available from the head icon with our name on the right side of where we see what song is playing).

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  1.   Amis Balls said

    In windows still nothing

  2.   Jordy said

    Pablo I need you to help me, since ios 8.4 is available, my cell phone says "request download".
    I have the latest beta of 8.4 installed and I have not been able to update; I even downloaded the ios from the links that you left, but when I downloaded the respective one for my cell phone, iTunes tells me that it is not compatible

    Help please

    1.    Paul Aparicio said

      Hi Jordy. I think the easiest thing you can do is make a backup, restore the iPhone (it will install the official version) and recover the backup.

      1.    marxter said

        The same thing happened to me, I deleted the developer profile, then I pressed the home button with the off button (plugged into itunes) until it came out that it would be restored (before I made a backup copy in the same itunes) once I finished the whole process I reloaded the developer profile and then updated.
        The update crashed twice, the third time it worked.

  3.   Jordy said

    Thank you very much that was going to be my last resort but I see that there is no other option.

    Thank you very much greetings from Colombia !!

  4.   Mike said

    Jordy, I just have a question, will the remote app receive an update? Since the Spotify Connect function is very useful for me.

  5.   Mike said

    Excuse me, Pablo

  6.   Ramses said

    Where can bugs be reported? Because it has quite a few. Some albums do not load. For some artists, no albums appear either in the "album" section or in the "top album". Sometimes it stays loading as there are more albums and you can get tired that nothing is loaded. From when you press play until the song begins there is a delay of more than one second. Crossfades don't do well. Apart from the disorder that you find in the artists, that the albums are not even ordered with any kind of criteria.
    I think we have another "Big Shit" from Apple in front of us. They have sold us the motorcycle and the product has many drawbacks, as happened with Maps, many problems have not yet been solved. Steve Jobs, look what they've done with your Apple.
    Total disappointment.

  7.   ionfrehley (@ionfrehley) said

    I really liked Apple Music, the interface, I find it very intuitive. What I would like is for it to be an app not integrated into the OS, it is true that the same thing happens to me, there are some albums that do not load and are sometimes loaded with incorrect covers. Anyway it is a complete pass.

  8.   Javier said

    With the iTunes update my apps, my books and tones have disappeared.

  9.   Fernando (@Garza_Real) said

    And how is music transferred from iTunes to iPhone now?

  10.   Miguel Angel said

    The latest version of iTunes is not downloaded to me, has it happened to someone else?

  11.   Emily said

    I want to synchronize all the books and it only synchronizes a few, it says that I have them all on the ipad and it is a lie