8.4 is here... Go and get it and play with Apple Music

bamf-hacker

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I am downloading it as I type this.

Will be playing with the new service soon and hopefully see if I will be getting rid of my Spotify account :)
 

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I have iTunes Match. I painstakingly went through the upload process and then downloaded the files from the cloud onto my computer. I saved the originals as a back-up in case a file got replaced that I did not want.

Now, I am interested in trying out iMusic but am hesitant as to exactly what will happen to my music and will it go through this whole process again? I want to try it but not at the sake of my library. Also, if I were to change, I assume I would no longer need match and will that too screw up my library?
 

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UNHAPPY :(

I tried to set up a playlist... That worked great, but there is no way to set the whole playlist to be available offline. Unless I am missing something. You can go to each song and select them to download, but who has time to go through 100+ songs and do that one at a time.
 

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UNHAPPY :(

I tried to set up a playlist... That worked great, but there is no way to set the whole playlist to be available offline. Unless I am missing something. You can go to each song and select them to download, but who has time to go through 100+ songs and do that one at a time.

When I go to a playlist and bring up the options, then tap "Make Available Offline", it just goes to that playlist. It doesn't say anything else about it. Does that mean it's Offline? I didn't see an option to check each song.
 

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I removed everything and started over the the second time the option to download (offline) was there.

However, I upgraded my kids last night and as I feared the same Apple ID used for purchases has the power in Apple Music, so I turned it off for them :)

Need to keep the Kids and Wife from messing with my playlists :)
 

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Why do you not use Family sharing now?

Not all purchases are enrolled in family sharing, and IAP's are not covered either. So when we pay to unlock a full version of a game we would need to pay the same thing 4 times.

While I don't mind supporting developers, I am not a fan of buying the same thing over and over :)