Apple Music

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Apple's streaming music service Apple Pay has hit another milestone - it has surpassed 10 million downloads on Android. A quick look at the Play Store listing for the app now shows the total number of installs in 10M to 50M range.

For those who aren't in the know, Apple Music for Android was launched back in November last year, but it stayed in beta until last month when the Cupertino-based company finally released a stable version of the app.

The service turned a year old this June with over 15 million paid subscribers, halfway reaching Spotify’s 30 million subscribers.

http://m.gsmarena.com/apple_music_hits_10_million_downloads_on_android-blog-20361.php

It took them almost a year to release a stable version? Holy sheeet

 

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https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/03/how-to-download-all-apple-music-iphone-ipad-itunes/

 

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https://youtu.be/P25v--BKEXQ

 

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Apple Music student pricing comes to over 20 new countries

Apple today rolled out the student discount tier of Apple Music to over 20 new countries around the globe. As noted by The Financial Post, Apple Music’s student discount offering is now available in Canada, Italy, Japan, and 22 other countries. With today’s new additions, the tier is available in over 30 countries in total.

Apple Music’s student pricing has been available in the United States Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Denmark for a while now, but today’s countries are all new.

The student tier of Apple Music allows those enrolled in education to receive a discounted price for the streaming music service. For instance, in the United States the student tier runs just $4.99 per month.

The full list of new countries can be seen below:

Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Chile
Colombia
Finland
France
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Switzerland
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
United Arab Emirates

Apple uses a third-party service called UNiDAYS to verify a student’s eligibility for the student tier. The service confirms that a student is enrolled in an accredited university before allowing them to pay the student pricing. Alternatively, students can use their school email address or campus WiFi to automatically be granted access to the student pricing tier.

While Apple Music was rumored to be receiving a price cut across the board a few weeks ago, that hasn’t come to fruition and was perceived with skepticism at the time. For now, it seems as if Apple Music’s pricing is set in stone, but at $4.99, the student tier of the service is hard to beat.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/29/apple-music-student-pricing/

 

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Apple Music student pricing comes to over 20 new countries

Apple today rolled out the student discount tier of Apple Music to over 20 new countries around the globe. As noted by The Financial Post, Apple Music’s student discount offering is now available in Canada, Italy, Japan, and 22 other countries. With today’s new additions, the tier is available in over 30 countries in total.

Apple Music’s student pricing has been available in the United States Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Denmark for a while now, but today’s countries are all new.

The student tier of Apple Music allows those enrolled in education to receive a discounted price for the streaming music service. For instance, in the United States the student tier runs just $4.99 per month.

The full list of new countries can be seen below:

Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
China
Chile
Colombia
Finland
France
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Switzerland
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
United Arab Emirates

Apple uses a third-party service called UNiDAYS to verify a student’s eligibility for the student tier. The service confirms that a student is enrolled in an accredited university before allowing them to pay the student pricing. Alternatively, students can use their school email address or campus WiFi to automatically be granted access to the student pricing tier.

While Apple Music was rumored to be receiving a price cut across the board a few weeks ago, that hasn’t come to fruition and was perceived with skepticism at the time. For now, it seems as if Apple Music’s pricing is set in stone, but at $4.99, the student tier of the service is hard to beat.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/29/apple-music-student-pricing/

How do you take advantage of this?

 

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How do you take advantage of this?

Apple on Tuesday began offering student pricing for its streaming music service in 25 new countries, reports MacRumors. This brings the total number of regions where students can get a significant discount on Apple Music to 32.

The new countries include major markets like China and India, as well as Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.

Apple Music launched in 2015, and as of September, it has more than 17 million paid subscribers. The standard price is $9.99/month and $4.99 for students. Students are verified using the UNiDAYS service, or their campus email.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/11/29/apple-music-student-price-new/

 

[Ffosse]

I don't use the paid Apple Music service but have my own iTunes collection solely for my Apple Watch; on my phone I use Google Play Music. Would love to have Google Music for the watch.

 

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Good lord, iTunes on Windows is atrocious. The number of times I have to restart it just to play music is too damn high

 

[Cassady]

Good lord, iTunes on Windows is atrocious. The number of times I have to restart it just to play music is too damn high

Ja. Remember having to use it on my Windows laptop back in the day. Was such a terrible experience, that I was convinced that those claiming the Mac experience was somehow 'better', were guzzling down the Koolaid.

iTunes on a Mac has increasingly become a bloated behemoth over the last years, but at least it's (relatively) stable.

 

[prod]

Hi guys,

Hoping someone can help here. I just recently built a new PC and iTunes is giving me gray hairs for days. For some reason it refuses to show my library:



I can log in fine and I've done all the things Apple suggests (deauthorize, authorize, uninstall, restarts etc.) yet nothing helps. Anyone had this issue before?

 

[prod]

Okay nevermind. ./facepalm.

The issue was that iCloud was disabled in preferences for some reason. Enabling it solved the issue

 

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Apple Music gains new $99 annual subscription option

It appears Apple has quietly added a new annual subscription option for its Apple Music service. TechCrunch points to the new plan, which costs just $99 for 12-months of access to the 20 million+ track library and loads of exclusive content.

This is good for a $20 savings over the standard $9.99/month plan, but Apple doesn’t make it easy to find. You have to go into iTunes or the App Store and tap on Apple ID > Subscriptions > Apple Music. It also looks like the price is only available to current users.

Of course Apple has long offered 12-month Apple Music gift cards for $99, and the $4.99/month student plan is still the cheapest. Apple Music offers on-demand access to all of your favorite songs, albums, custom playlists, exclusive videos and much more.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/06/19/apple-music-99-annual-option/

 

[SauRoNZA]

Would be nice to get a family plan annually.

Throw in some free iCloud space while you are at it Apple.

 

[Bryn]

Would be nice to get a family plan annually.

Throw in some free iCloud space while you are at it Apple.

Geez man. R90pm for 6 Apple Music accounts is already pretty amazing value.

 

[vinodh]

SA pricing is quite good: