Apple Music app is now available to Android users.It is a app that really gives Android users a taste of one of Apple's flagship services. If you've used the somewhat-jumbled Apple Music app on iOS, you'll be quite familiar with its Android counterpart -- nearly all of the service's features are intact, and the user interface is a surprisingly tasteful blend of what Apple put together for iOS that still feels native to Android.
After downloading and installing Apple Music from Google Play, you'll be prompted to either begin a free trial or log in if you're already a current subscriber.If you don't sign in, you can listen to ad-supported radio for free.Once you're set up, you get dropped into the "For You" tab, which pulls together curated playlists and albums recommended based on your listening habits. There's a host of other ways to browse the huge amount of music on the service. "New" features new music that you can drill down into by genre; there's also a host of playlists to browse based on genres and activities that are created by the Apple Music editors and a number of contributors. "Radio" features Beats 1 as well as genre-based stations that'll continuously play and update based on your preferences. "Connect" gives users a way to follow artists and see what the post -- usually it's Instagram-style photos, but they may also link to specific songs or playlists as well.
Finally, there's "My Music," which includes everything you've added to your library, either through Apple Music or via songs that you've added to your iTunes account over the years. Playlists are helpfully broken into their own area rather than grouped under My Music as they are in iOS. That's a lot of different ways to browse your music, and Apple Music remains one of the less streamlined and more complicated music services out there, at least at first glance. After using the service for more than four months, I know where to look for what I want to find, but new users will surely need to take some time figuring out what kinds of content each section features.
Apple Music remains complicated at first glance, but there's a lot of good stuff to find.
new users get a lengthy three-month trial, so if you're an Android user who hasn't given Apple Music a shot, now's the time to find out if it'll work for you.
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