Speaker manufacturer Sonos has added Apple Music support to their speaker systems. The service officially launched through the Sonos app as a beta on December 15th. The beta is only in early stages and as such Sonos expect users to experience some early bugs which will lead to an enhanced experience in the future.

To access the service user must first update to the latest version of the Sonos app, then go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Advanced Settings’ >’Beta Program’ and enable it. You must then update your available Sonos speakers through the online updates page within the Sonos app. Finally, go to ‘Add Music Services’ and select Apple Music.

Sonos has launched a special page on their website promoting the service which can be found here. Continue reading this post ->

Apple Music has lost millions of its users as early adopters, who were part of the 90 day free trial look for other free music streaming services. When Apple Music first launched, new users were able to sign up for a 90-day free subscription. Unsurprisingly though, millions of users flocked to the service.

Currently there’s an estimated 6.5 million paying subscribers and an estimated 8.5 million users still in a free trial. Whilst some users have retained their subscriptions other users who were early adopters have moved across to rival music subscription services such as Spotify, which already has 20 million paid music subscribers.

Cook isn’t too concerned about users leaving the service with the CEO happy with the current user numbers. “I’m really happy about it, and I think the runaway number here is really good.” Cook said in regards to the amount of users retaining the service at a Laguna Beach conference on Monday.

It will be interesting to see who wins in this tug-of-war battle between the two giant music streaming services, and it will most likely continue for a while to come. Continue reading this post ->

Each month Apple’s presence over social media is getting more and more prominent as the tech giant looks to sway people to its new services and products, and this has led to the addition of a new Twitter account for Apple Music.

Just recently the Cupertino company started a new Twitter account “@AppStoreGames”that promotes new and current released games to the Twitter community. Whilst this originally looked to be a good way for Apple to promote games it seems like the only games getting promotion are those by the big publishers like EA, Rovio and King Entertainment.

Apple today launched a new account for Apple Music called @AppleMusicHelp, launching just after the completion of the three month Apple Music trial period with Apple obviously trying to draw more subscribers. Whilst the account appears to only be there to offer help to previous users or those considering a subscription, it is a step in the right direction as Apple try to make themselves more prominent across our social media streams and also makes it easier for us to get immediate responses from Apple as opposed to waiting for an email response days from when a help request was submitted.

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Nearly 2 weeks ago Apple released iTunes 12.2 and iOS 8.4 which introduced the world to Apple Music. The release, though having much success, came with several issues. Today, Apple releases iTunes 12.2.1 which should fix some of these issues.

Mac users can download this new update by navigating to the updates tab in the Mac App Store.

– Fixes an issue for iTunes Match where iTunes incorrectly changed some songs from Matched to Apple Music.
– Provides a way to correct a library problem affecting former iTunes Match subscribers.
– Includes minor bug fixes and improvements for Beats 1.

The update includes fixes an issue where iTunes Match would incorrectly label songs, ‘Matched’ as apposed to ‘Apple Music’. The update also allows a small subset of iTunes Match users to join Apple Music for the first time today. Continue reading this post ->

With Apple’s over-hyped music streaming service finally released, all users are eligible for a free three month trial. That being said though, there is a single catch. After the three month trial is finished, users will automatically be enrolled to pay the full price depending if they choose the family bundle ($14.99/month for 6 people) or the single user price ($9.99/month). Luckily though, there is a pretty simple way to get around that just by following the steps below.

1. Open the Apple Music app, tap the Profile Icon in (upper left corner) and select “View Apple ID”.
2. Enter in your Apple ID information and you’ll go to your “Account Settings” page. From there look for the “Subscriptions” section and select “Manage”.
3. Select the option that says Apple Music and turn the automatic renewal button to off.

After those three simple steps, you are all good to go! Continue reading this post ->