Everything You Need to Know about Apple Music

 Apple Music is a music streaming application similar to the other music streaming applications such as Amazon Music, Google Play Music, and Spotify. Launched on 30th June 2015, Apple Music is the second most popular music streaming application globally. 

The convenient library of this application will allow the listeners to pile up their favourite songs and stream them both offline and online.

Therefore, Apple users can easily access the standard as well as Premium Apple Music features by simply creating an account. The next segment will talk about how to set up an Apple Music account.

How to Create an Apple Music Account

One can create an account after you subscribe to Apple Music. The steps are as follows,

Step 1: Download the Apple Music app or iTunes or subscribe to Apple music by going to the music.apple.com website

Step 2: Then select the "for you" option

Step 3: Choose either individual or family subscriptions. In addition, there is an option for student subscriptions

Step 4: Use the Apple ID and password to sign in

Step 5: Make the purchase

Step 6 : Join Apple Music

Once the account has been created and a subscription is taken, one can browse Apple Music on many other devices. People can listen to Apple Music on their iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC, Apple TV, or even Android devices.

For iPhone, iPad, or Android devices, one can follow the below-mentioned steps, 

Step 1: Open the Apple Music app

Step 2: Then select the "listen now" option

Step 3: Sign in by using the Apple ID and password

One can browse Apple Music on Apple TV by following these steps, 

Step 1: First go to settings

Step 2: Then move to Users and Accounts

Step 3: Sign in and stream

Moreover, individuals can set up Apple Music as default on Amazon Alexa devices. The required method is, 

Step 1: First buy Apple Music

Step 2: Open the Amazon Alexa application

Step 3: Select skills and games from the bottom-right corner 

Step 4: Type Apple Music in the top-right corner and tap on enable.

Step 5: Then move to settings and link the Apple account.

In addition, One can set Apple Music as the default by 

Step 1: Going down to the music podcasts option at the bottom-right corner of the Amazon Alexa application

Step 2: Select default services

Step 3: Choose Apple Music under music

Thus, these are the steps one needs to follow to set up Apple Music and unlock its amazing features.

The Features of Apple Music

One of the leading music streaming services, Apple Music has an ample collection of music of your choice with faster and easier access. However, if one is not aware of the features here they are, 

1) Curated Playlist

Apple Music has curated essentials of one's favourite music genres. In addition, you can also search for artists, albums, and songs here. Apart from that one can find music from different layers of a genre. So it is an interesting feature that allows users to explore the vast world of music.

2) Auto-Download

One can use this feature in the following way,

Step 1: Go to settings

Step 2: Then move to the music section

Step 3: Tap on the "toggle" option

Step 4: Enable "Automatic Downloads"

Apart from this, one needs to enable the iCloud Music Library to get access to this feature. 

3) Library

Here one will find all the songs that they have included in their playlists. In addition, there is a download tab that has all the downloaded songs for offline streaming.

4) Listen Now

The "listen now" section is the collection of the top picks that the user might like. Moreover, it also has suggestions from various places like what the nearby friends are listening to or the songs that one recently played.

5) Radio 

This feature was added to Apple Music in 2020. People can listen to the country's popular radio channels through this feature.

6) Spatial Audio

It works great with devices' Dolby Atoms feature. Spatial audio gives people an impressive music hearing experience. One can just enable the feature and be immersed in the high-quality audio. 

7) Lossless Audio

In this feature, Apple Music stores the original version of a song that is sung in the record room. So people will get first-hand hearing experience from this feature.

Therefore, these were more or less the attractive features of Apple Music. However, some premium features might be a topic of discussion.

Premium Apple Music Features

The premium features of Apple Music are as follows,

● Endless music streaming on any device

● Playlist based on mood

● User-created playlist

● Spatial audio with no extra cost

● Lossless audio with no extra cost

● Personalized playlist matching with an algorithm etc.

However, to avail of these features, one needs to buy the packages. Here is a brief insight into the available packages.

1) $4.99 Package

It is a monthly subscription that allows users to use the Siri command on the supported devices, for example, iPod.

2) $9.99 Package

With this monthly pack, one will get all the features of Apple Music without Apple Music Voice Plan very easily and get full access to Siri commands.

3) $14.99 Package

It is a monthly family pack that allows six people to stream from the same account.

In addition to it, college students can get access to discounted Apple Music subscriptions with UNiDAYS verification.

Thus, people can consider this information before getting access to Apple Music. Moreover, one can enjoy their favourite music endlessly with attractive features by subscribing to the premium Apple Music. The application has all the catchy elements for example exclusive releases of albums to give the listeners some more entertainment.