The rumors are over. Apple made us wait until their famous "One More Thing" to tell us about Apple Music, that streaming music service that everyone was talking about and that was going to mean a break in the tranquility in the online music market, and it seems that way it will be. In the absence of proving how Apple Music works, it has wanted to enter the industry through the front door, the door of champions, Apple Music promises a lot and in Cupertino they are so sure that they are the best that they give us three months for free to make us dependent on their music service. The question is, can you do without it after three months? In Actualidad iPad we summarize the best of Apple Music.
What is Apple Music?
Apple is a streaming music service, we might think that like any other, but no, Apple is used to not doing normal things. The Apple Music service will give a twist to the way we listen to music, going far beyond the fact of creating our own lists and playing songs, Apple intends to make Apple Music the application between applications, bringing together a social network of artists, a way to discover music every day combined with a music system for occasions that will automatically play a series of songs selected for the right moment.
What's so special about Apple Music?
Within the application we will have a section called "Connect" in which the artist Drake during WWDC 15 explained that it will serve as a direct springboard in a single "social network" so that musicians can be aware of what their fans want and provide them with direct information through exclusive content in the form of photos, songs, texts and videos. Apple certainly wants to bring fans and artists as close as possible. Thanks to this Apple Music will not simply become our streaming music player, but a place where we can keep up to date with the latest movements of the celebrities of the musical world.
The ability to access entire iTunes catalog It is undoubtedly one of the great assets of Apple Music, and that is that there is no greater virtual catalog of music than the one held by Apple.
Beats 1 Radio, For You and Siri
This station within the «Radio» section of the Apple Music application will be a 24/7 online radio which will broadcast the greatest hits worldwide, with stations in cities (they will start in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States) with an artistic and musical variety corroborated in the short history that Beats Music has had. On the other hand For You will be a new method to explore between thousands and thousands of songs without the need to waste time, by filling in a short questionnaire the algorithm will select those songs according to our musical tastes, allowing us to discover music daily with which to delight ourselves.
Crab has been one of the great beneficiaries of this WWDC 15 and it has improved remarkably, so from now on it will be fully integrated with Apple Music so that simply by asking it, we can reproduce the song we want or the station that we like the most.
When, how and how much?
Apple Music will be released on June 30 along with the official update of the iOS firmware to its version iOS 8.4 and it will come pre-installed in the operating system. As already rumored the final update to iOS 8.4 would be delayed to welcome Apple Music and it has been.
However Tim Cook has announced that Apple Music will be a multiplatform service accessible through the Web and through its applications for Windows and Android, the latter being for obvious reasons delayed until an undetermined date at the end of the year, therefore Apple Music will not be restricted only to users of the Apple suite, which it is going to be an important point in your favor.
It has also been confirmed that Apple Music will have offline modeThus, we can download our favorite music so that it is available wherever we want, assuming considerable data savings if we decide to save these lists or songs through our WiFi connections.
The price, perhaps the most important and what many feared knowing Apple, as it has pleasantly surprised us, This is the Apple Music pricing plan:
- First three months of free subscription.
- Monthly subscription of 9,99€ for a user
- Monthly subscription of 14,99€ for up to 6 users of the En Familia system.
The monthly subscription for Family users will undoubtedly be another hit for the competition since it is a really competitive price for those households that want to have all the music on all the devices of their family members. With all these measures Apple plans to achieve more than 100 million subscriptions in the launch period.