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I hope they add this feature to the app (and API!).
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Apple has long had a much better experience when it comes to offline use and private media. With iCloud, tracks you add to your library are automatically uploaded to Apple's cloud and become available on all devices. That helps a lot because you don't have to resort to using some other player for that those obscure albums that aren't streaming anywhere. After all, while Apple and Spotify have a lot of music, there ar…
As I read your comment I'm listening to "I Learnt Some Jazz Today", haha!
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, l…
Spotify has had it since 2008 and Google Play Music since 2011. Blows my mind that people have used this for so long without web support... Then again if you're stuck in the garden, you don't have much choice.
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When Apple decides the mobile app for Music is worth their salt, then maybe. But until then Spotify will rule the market.
The big issue is that it's tied to iOS versions rather that being its own app, as are Pages and GarageBand for example. iOS 13 brings some good improvements, but now we'll have to wait a year for more. Whereas the Spotify team is continuously maintaining and updating the app.
Pages and GarageBand are released on a schedule that differs from Apple’s operating systems–they’re entirely separate.
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As I read your comment I'm listening to "I Learnt Some Jazz Today", haha!
And to bring your musing full circle, Apple used that in a recent AirPods ad: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yyNtm0LZiKc
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, l…
Hmmm. This ignores Apple acquiring Lala.com in '09.
Finally. Live web clients are great - it makes it easier to reverse engineer, scrape data and build add-ons. Kudos!
I don’t know…personally, Apple’s native apps are easier for me to reverse engineer than most minified obfuscated JavaScript. Then again, I’m not a web developer.
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, l…
There's no way to browse, or even launch it directly. You have to search, via Google or other, for an album, and follow the link to what always used to be the iTunes Preview page. You can still listen to the thirty-second previews on this page, but there's a sign-in link in the header that will, quite surprisingly, unlock full playback of the album without launching iTunes.
It's hardly the full Apple Music experience – all you get is the album you found and some related links at the bottom, with no access to your library or playlists – but it does work. I'm not really sure what purpose this functionality served, other than perhaps as a testbed for the actual web client, but it's still active for the time being.
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Is there still patent uncertainty around React (or Angular)? Otherwise, Im not sure why anyone outside HN would care about the optics of which front-end library was used.
Are you really saying you don’t understand why Apple might not want to use a framework created by their frenemies in Facebook and Google, especially given Apple’s focus on privacy and willingness to make an example of FB and Google for their comparatively lax privacy standards?
https://betanews.com/2018/02/26/apple-icloud-now-powered-by-...