Apple Music now in SA

Anyone having issues claiming the *free* trial. My US acc says I don't have enough bucks. I have $9 but it's a free trial so even if I have zero $ it should still work. Any ideas?

Having the same issue...
 
Well, that's frustrating, thanks Apple.

I download the latest version of Apple Itunes, then go to the Apple Music website and select to start the trial. This opens up the Itunes store in the app, which then displays an error that I need to update my Itunes. This directs me to the download page of the UK Itunes, which then shows that the latest version for download is the one I have, not the newer version required for Apple Music.

Aaaaargh. Such a run-around! This is the 64-bit version, btw.

Anybody else had any luck getting this working in SA legally?

New version is now out :). At time of this post, you have to grab it manually :)

iTunes v12.2 x64

Here we go :D.
 
Anyone having issues claiming the *free* trial. My US acc says I don't have enough bucks. I have $9 but it's a free trial so even if I have zero $ it should still work. Any ideas?

Having the same issue...

So I asked online & I've been told I need at least a $9.99 balance to claim/opt in for the *Free* trial...WTH :twisted:
 
The interface is a bit clunky, even on a 6+. Song selection is ok, it's funny that Google Play Music has the Beatles and all the Metallica albums and Apple does not (US store)

How does the SA store look? At the moment, the only thing that makes this better than my Google Play is that it's the default music player, and I don't have to open the app to start playing music in my car.
 
The interface is a bit clunky, even on a 6+. Song selection is ok, it's funny that Google Play Music has the Beatles and all the Metallica albums and Apple does not (US store)

Does Google Play have a streaming service that has the Beatles music on?
 
I like it but meh.. It really is a bit awkward with iTunes Match. Beginning to wonder if I keep iTunes Match
 
Yup, Google Play All Access. Been a subscriber since it launched.

But did you import your own Beatles music from another source or purchase it separately? As far as I knew it wasn't available on any streaming only service.

For example I can stream Beatles music on Apple Music because I have purchased from iTunes and could stream any of my purchased music even before Apple Music.
 
But did you import your own Beatles music from another source or purchase it separately? As far as I knew it wasn't available on any streaming only service.

For example I can stream Beatles music on Apple Music because I have purchased from iTunes and could stream any of my purchased music even before Apple Music.

Nope, I didn't import anything to it. I was quite surprised when I saw it as well. Metallica is also on the streaming services now, and Google Play has all their albums where Apple Music still seemed to have only a few early ones.
 
So I asked online & I've been told I need at least a $9.99 balance to claim/opt in for the *Free* trial...WTH :twisted:

Try again, i added my VCPay virtual CC [nothing in it] and it only sent an SMS saying $1 reserved. I took the family plan though and used the SA Store :). This was when the iTunes version went live so took a couple of tries, you shouldn't have an issue now. Remember to restart the app if an error occurs.
 
I like it but meh.. It really is a bit awkward with iTunes Match. Beginning to wonder if I keep iTunes Match

In my opinion no iTunes Match is now pointless...unless you need access to a lot of offline play.

If you have uncapped or enough data to stream constantly iTunes Match becomes redundant as you can upload the missing albums that aren't offered via streaming to Apple Music exactly like you would with iTunes Match anyway.


So far I am very impressed with it...except for the fact that iOS9 Beta testers have been left in the cold so far so checked it on my wife's phone and iTunes directly.

With Family Sharing this is really a game changer for us as we needed to abuse my account the whole time for iTunes Match. Now we each have our own "profile" and one universal cost which is awesome.


Now when will Apple do this for TV...


Biggest deal for me is that this is all on my SA account. No hack jobs or workaround. Perfectly legal...put in credit card and off I go. And Apple have put some real effort in with local specific playlists and recommendations not just a clone of somewhere else.

It's a very good thing because hopefully other big ones start paying attention to SA. Next up local Amazong and Azure cloud replication? Wonder where Apple is hosting all this locally...if at all.
 
It's a very good thing because hopefully other big ones start paying attention to SA. Next up local Amazong and Azure cloud replication? Wonder where Apple is hosting all this locally...if at all.

While local data is so expensive and so little SA companies using it there is no point.

However, MS will be releasing some great things for Azure in the rest of the year that should solve the issues you have.
 
In my opinion no iTunes Match is now pointless...unless you need access to a lot of offline play.

If you have uncapped or enough data to stream constantly iTunes Match becomes redundant as you can upload the missing albums that aren't offered via streaming to Apple Music exactly like you would with iTunes Match anyway.


So far I am very impressed with it...except for the fact that iOS9 Beta testers have been left in the cold so far so checked it on my wife's phone and iTunes directly.

With Family Sharing this is really a game changer for us as we needed to abuse my account the whole time for iTunes Match. Now we each have our own "profile" and one universal cost which is awesome.


Now when will Apple do this for TV...


Biggest deal for me is that this is all on my SA account. No hack jobs or workaround. Perfectly legal...put in credit card and off I go. And Apple have put some real effort in with local specific playlists and recommendations not just a clone of somewhere else.

It's a very good thing because hopefully other big ones start paying attention to SA. Next up local Amazong and Azure cloud replication? Wonder where Apple is hosting all this locally...if at all.

Exactly.. Well you can keep offline music on device pretty much like how iTunes Match can cache music on device. For me the Family sharing is huge.. 1st time i started using it and makes more sense for me as now. With regards to iTunes Match.. i really dunno.. I mean i have music in the cloud so kinda sucks killing it yet i don't need it.. ugh its relatively cheap and they expanding storage.. but do note that this does NOT work with family sharing i.e. 1 Match per username.

Also waiting for it to hit Apple Tv.. i reckon it will likely come with the refresh & Tv SDK + new device.
 
But did you import your own Beatles music from another source or purchase it separately? As far as I knew it wasn't available on any streaming only service.

For example I can stream Beatles music on Apple Music because I have purchased from iTunes and could stream any of my purchased music even before Apple Music.

I checked again tonight and the songs were gone. It had the Beatalls and some other stuff there, but their original albums have been removed. Was also removed from my offline playlists I created yesterday.

So, this was either something that is coming soon or something they (Google) genuinely made a mistake on.
 
It it just me or is the Music app a bit unstable? like i've had it crash on me a few times yesterday when using it where previously it was pretty stable.
 
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