This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and MacOS has iTunes, no electron non-sense.
seems they're using Ember.js . Reason I love spotify so much is that it's available on the web, no need to be downloading native apps everywhere. Always bet on the web. also good to see, another web property using Ember. As a react dev, competition is healthy
Interesting to see Apple starting to move into the web app product space (aside from iCloud, of course). Must say though that performance feels a bit sluggish (esp. hover states) on a Macbook Pro (tested in Firefox, Chrome and Safari).
Results of a Lighthouse audit (London): https://www.dropbox.com/s/jaf3gmgo0tpanba/Screenshot%202019-...
Very cool! I've loved Apple Music ever since I was able to upload my library using Match, and I feel like its recommendations are getting better and better. Nice to have this in a pinned tab.
Uses 50MB less memory as the sole tab in Firefox than iTunes does on my Mac. Easy decision to switch for normal playback purposes.
This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago.
Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.
Whatever. I was really hoping to see some improvements to the music-organization and display aspects here but it looks like they just re-implemented the weird parts of iTunes using html5.
For example: It drives me crazy how Apple Music emphasizes the idea that "Recently Added" is only grouped by albums. I don't add whole albums to my library, I add individual songs. I want to play all the songs I've recently added because hey it's new music I like. Why can't I get an auto-updating playlist of all the songs I've recently added? None of the cloud-based Apple platforms support smart-playlists and the "Recently Added" section only lets you play songs from an individual album from which you may have only added a single song.
It's super weird. - Apple music seems to really push you into either whole albums or the overly-generic editor-curated playlists.
Very nice to see them provide a dark CSS theme via prefers-color-scheme, following system preference.
It appears even Apple themselves do not bother with using the overflow scrolling CSS that iOS needs.
Finally. Live web clients are great - it makes it easier to reverse engineer, scrape data and build add-ons. Kudos!
Can't link directly to a personal playlist (even if it's "published" to Apple's weird social network) for someone not already logged in (they just get the Apple Music landing page). So close! They're so smart, they'll figure this out some day!
Now that there’s one more platform where Apple Music is available it would be really great if we could have the playback queue synced between them. I don’t want to recreate my listening queue I every time I’m changing my device.
I’m curious what framework Apple uses for web now. Last I checked (a week ago) icloud.com is still implemented with SproutCore.
This is very interesting. I'm using PiHole; and, it seems that when I click that link, I'm sent to the Chinese version of the Apple site and there's no beta. Very strange!
I'm experiencing this issue in Firefox, where I have all my regular ad-blocking, and an incognito window in Chrome, where I don't have any of it.
Anyone else seeing this?
Ah, nice! I was an early Beats Music subscriber and really lamented the eventual loss of the web interface.
As much as I commend them for creating a web client for their music service, the UI looks like it was designed by an amateur. Can't really put my finger on it but it's something to do with the content alignment, the gradients used. I would have expected better from Apple.
I’m so sad that most consumers want to pay for things like this or Spotify.
I only buy digital albums, almost always from Bandcamp or bespoke band-specific sites, or Amazon if there’s no other choice.
Always just a straight download of mp3 or ogg formats, backed up and accessible in cloud storage.
I use VLC player on all my devices, and syncing music with the VLC wifi download tool is so extremely easy and simple.
I have all the music I could ever possibly want, easily accessible on all devices and easy to sync on all devices, no internet connection needed, no monthly charge or user account, no ads, can transfer it all to any new devices I get with no vendor lock-in.
I just can’t believe the populace was suckered into music streaming instead of music owning. So sad.
I recently switched to a windows machine from Mac at work, and brought in iTunes to listen to Apple Music. It’s really as bad as I remember.
Really great timing on this for me.
Has anyone noticed this? On the native apps, when you click on an album, the most popular songs have a star icon next to them. I like that. The third party web apps that consume the Apple Music API don't have the feature, but I thought Apple's official web app would have it, but they don't!
I hope they add this feature to the app (and API!).
Nice!
Now, how about some cross-platform iCloud Drive love? huh?
It’d be awesome if they did this next with their movie and TV stuff. I have a bunch of stuff purchased on iTunes that I can’t play on my TV (out of HDMI ports and TV stand space and no AirPlay solution for Android that I know of will work due to the DRM).
Really cool they’re starting to open this stuff up at least.
It's funny that the web app performs better than the desktop app.
Requires DRM to be turned on for it to work. No thanks.
Interesting that Beats 1 doesn't seem to be listed in the radio section. They hyped it so much and it has just faded away.
Apple finally comes out with something Spotify and Google have had for years... Good job.
Does not work in Safari for me. When playing songs they simply don't start. Weird.
Says my Chrome and Firefox on Linux (ubuntu) not supported. :(
Messages beta should be along shortly! Fingers crossed.
I’m really sad about the state of international music on youtube. Asian music is completely absent. Worse, all Chinese alternatives are blocked in the US.
wow... that took a long time to happen.
About time!
So much for https://musi.sh
RIP Spotify.
So, Apple is launching an offering on par with Google's seven years later. Is that what we call innovation?
Wow, us Apple Music users have been waiting for this forever! For anyone who's curious about how this product developed:
- April 2016: Apple releases Apple Music API
- December 2018: A third-party Apple Music web player is launched on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/playapplemusic-com (Created by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shivdhar)
- January 2019: Another third-party alternative, Musish, launches on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18940407
- Now: Apple finally launches their own official player!
Makes sense with Spotify being so popular on web...