Apple Music is now available as a Web App
Apple Music is a subscription-based music streaming service developed by Apple Inc. It offers a vast catalog of songs, playlists, and albums that users can stream on various Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
Here are some key features and aspects of Apple Music:
- Music Library: Apple Music provides access to a vast library of over 70 million songs, including tracks from popular artists and emerging talents.
- Personalized Recommendations: The service uses algorithms to analyze your listening habits and preferences, providing personalized recommendations for songs, albums, and playlists through features like “For You.”
- Curated Playlists: Apple Music offers a variety of curated playlists created by music experts and algorithms. Users can explore playlists based on genres, moods, or activities.
- Beats 1 Radio: Apple Music includes Beats 1, a 24/7 global radio station featuring a mix of curated music, interviews, and special programming. Users can also access various other radio stations and shows.
- Offline Listening: Subscribers can download songs for offline listening, allowing them to enjoy music even when not connected to the internet.
- Integration with Apple Devices: Apple Music is tightly integrated with Apple’s ecosystem, allowing seamless access to your music library across different devices.
- Music Videos: In addition to audio content, Apple Music also includes a selection of music videos and exclusive content.
You can now enjoy Apple Music on the web as Apple Music is now available as a Web App. You can find it utilizing the streaming service’s new public beta web app.
Being an Apple Music subscriber, you can use the web version by signing in with your Apple ID at beta.music.apple.com.
Apple Music is now right up your alley to stream in your web browser. Apple Music for the web was released in beta in September however it seems to have gone under the radar for majority of the folks who were completely oblivious of the service’s existence.
Apple Music for the web needs a subscription, at around $9.99 per month, and is quite alike Spotify’s web service. It allows you to stream greater than 60 million songs and control playlists, albums, artists as well as the top picks that you may have saved on your iPhone.
The web version is quite easier for subscribers who generally utilize the Apple Music app on an iPhone or even an iPad but haven’t gotten used to the service on a Windows computer where they need to download and install Apple’s popularly sluggish iTunes software. It’s not quite as relevant for Macintosh users, as Apple has substituted iTunes with a much better app just for the sake of Music (and multiple apps for Podcasts and TV) in the latest version of macOS.
Packed with full features
This web version has all the features of the mobile app, like browsing and curating playlists and genres, and radio. You can use it on your computer without installing anything.
Using this new interface, you can stream your favourite music from an internet browser rather than installing iTunes or the separate Apple Music app.
Apple Music for the Web is part of a wider overall strategy to bring Apple Music everywhere the users are listening to music.
Apple Music replacing iTune in Music
Apple started to retire the iconic iTunes app earlier this year, but it has been reborn within MacOS as Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts. As Apple gradually started phasing out iTunes, its primary focus for music lovers has been on Apple Music. Apple has been including new features to it to make it more competitive in the world of other popular music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora.
The streaming service is packed with certain artists or albums that you can’t do elsewhere or on any other music streaming platform. This includes Dr. Dre’s album Chronic and Compton can only be found on Apple Music.
You get nearly 50 million songs on-demand, as well as live radio stations on Apple Music. The streaming service can make you pay $10 per month. Whereas, Spotify has 30 million songs in its library and is available for $10 a month, ad-free.
As per TechCrunch, Spotify had 108 million subscribers, while Apple only had 60 million.
Conclusion
The above mentioned are the features highlighted within Apple Music that is now available as a web app.