As we are now officially in the holiday season, I’ve been polishing off the official MacSparky Yule playlist. This includes my favorite holiday music by some of my favorite artists. It is heavily (but not entirely) jazz-focused. Apple Music subscribers can subscribe to it with this…
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The Short-Lived Apple Music Voice Plan
This week, we got the news that the $4.99 per month Apple Music Voice Plan has been shuttered. I’m not surprised. When this was announced, it seemed off-brand for Apple. I don’t think many people want a voice-only music system. Combining this with spotty…
Continue reading →The Yule Apple Music Playlist
A festive, well-armed wookiee The holidays are here and I’ve been doing more work on my “Yule” playlist. I’m always adding (and subtracting) to it. If you’ve got an Apple Music subscription, go ahead and subscribe and enjoy. The playlist is heavily jazz but…
Continue reading →Apple’s New Spatial Audio
When it comes to jazz music and listening to jazz music, I have opinions. That’s why when Apple first announced spatial audio and their intent to apply the spatial audio algorithm to existing music, I decided to wait and listen before commenting. I had…
Continue reading →Checking in with Apple Music
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple Music is now bigger than Spotify with 28 million subscribers. If that’s true, it doesn’t surprise me. Apple has a considerable advantage in that it is baked into iOS, works with Siri, and just more convenient…
Continue reading →The Yule Apple Music Playlist
The holidays are here and I’ve been doing more work on my “Yule” playlist. I’ve made lots of new additions this year including this gem from Joey Alexander. If you’ve got an Apple Music subscription, go ahead and subscribe and enjoy. The playlist is…
Continue reading →Sonos and Apple Music
Sonos is a great speaker system. After much badgering from Mac Power Users listeners, I started investing in them several years ago, and now I have a collection of them throughout my house. However, where Sonos failed to keep up was voice control. As…
Continue reading →Apple Music Recommendations. Not “For Me”
Apple Music has been great for our family. We all love music and we all listen to different kinds of music. Thanks to Apple Music we are listening to more music than ever and spending less money doing so. I know this shouldn’t be…
Continue reading →Apple Music Early Report Card
Every time Apple releases a new cloud-based service, technology journalists and early adopters sit around with bated breath. Apple seriously damaged its reputation a few years back with the MobileMe rollout and it still is accepted wisdom that Apple is lousy at cloud services.…
Continue reading →Apple Music, iTunes Match, and DRM
I’ve been neck deep in Apple Music this week as we prepare for a Mac Power Users episode devoted to the topic. One issue, that is worth sharing right now are the evolving questions about digital rights management (DRM). DRM has been largely missing…
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