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Spotify is great but there's a new music streaming service from the company who's fought streaming for years and now we've finally got our chance to try it out I'm hi I'm so Houston talking now and this is Apple music so here it is this is Apple music here you can see we've got a front page here with what's called new and this is basically just the the central hub for Apple music it looks a little bit like the iTunes app and also sort of it's sort of laid out like the music app down here with the different columns and tabs so on the front page here you can see they've kind of highlighted you know you get these these top artists and top albums and things that are kind of important going on right now so they kind of made an effort to highlight Taylor Swift right over here because they managed to lock her down for her album 1989 that's kind of become infamous for eluding just about every other music streaming service out there mostly Spotify and going through here like I said this is just kind of the main hub goes through top tracks what's currently you know what's popular best albums going on right now recent releases it's this is pretty pretty typical of a music app so going through the other tabs we got the four you tab over here and this is kind of what's gonna help Apple music personalize your radio stations and kind of make things fit you more personally so we're gonna go ahead and fill this out a little bit I like rock I'm basically here you're just touching whatever you'd like you touch twice for if you really like an album where Jean were that is and you can press and hold on and on the genre to say that you don't like it so I'm going to go ahead and press and hold on say Christian and gospel because that's not really my thing you can see it kind of does this little little jittery thing and then it goes away after a couple seconds and you can just fill this out with as many of the genres as you want to once you're done just go ahead and hit next and that would kind of pull that all into your little you bubble right there and then it kind of wants you to specify more this is actually going into who are your favorite artists I'm gonna go ahead and do that later I'll set that up myself and another time so going through the rest of these tabs you've got radio over here and this is again like pretty much any other music service you know Spotify has this are do most different music apps have a radio streaming service of some kind now the thing here is there is also this beats 1 radio and this is sort of apples approach on giving you the most personal and live music radio going on so what they're doing is they've got some different DJ's curating their own playlists on here it's always live 24/7 so should be really cool we've got some music playing already and we're going to stop that for copyright reasons and it's got a lot of potential for you know sort of sort of a actual radio killer of sorts so we'll go ahead and check that out in a different video here is the connect tab and this is sort of bringing back apples ping service if you remember that it was sort of they're really not successful or popular social media network for music this is a little bit different this is actually sort of an amalgamation of things like Instagram and Twitter and different platforms that artists already used to connect to their fans so here you'll be able to you know follow artists that you like you can there's a couple of them I'm gonna go ahead and follow system of a down real quick and basically once I do that I'll be able to start seeing different images from the band that they yeah anything that they post I can see exclusive songs or interviews things like that so this is this is sort of a personal thing with you and the bands that you like anything that you find on here you can actually share to your social media of your choice so it's a pretty cool little feature on there I'm not sure if that's really gonna make or break the platform as a whole but it's kind of a nice addition on there it's gonna condense different services and make it a little bit easier to just have an all in one place to see everything with your favorite artists going on here the rest of its kind of pretty typical you've got a playlist section this is just where you know you create any kind of playlist with the music you already have and you can also create playlists by searching for music on the Apple music library and finally you've got the my music tab over here and this is just what you've already purchased or what you have installed or stored rather on your iPad so I've already got some of these albums and songs here and that's basically the main gist of Apple music you know you can go through here pick anything you want to actually while we're in that music while we're in that main playing page you can see there's a play and skip and forward buttons on here just like the normal music app you could start a radio station or you can share the existing station that you're already in you got music controls sharing that song so there's pretty standard features on there and then you can also up here open up your account you can get a username this is kind of what's going to go with the connect feature down there at the bottom now Apple music is a subscription service as we've talked about before it's gonna be ten dollars for a single user or fifteen dollars for up to six users so you can really save some money on there if you are doing a family plan that's kind of where I think they're gonna be tackling services like Spotify where it's not all that competitively priced until you get to the family platinum this becomes significantly cheaper so this has been a first look at Apple music let me know what you guys think in the comments below let me know if you guys are thinking about picking up a three month trial of Apple music or if you think you're just gonna stick with Spotify because in my case I'm still trying to figure that out but I'll probably stick with Spotify unless Apple music really blows me away so we're gonna have some more coverage on this in neri coming videos and thanks for watching we'll see you next time you