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Eddy Cue: New iOS 9 beta with Apple Music coming ‘early next week’, bitrate better on WiFi

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While iOS 8.4 users have been able to try out the new Apple Music service since this morning, developers running the latest iOS 9 beta seed have been left out. This will change “early next week,” however, according to Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue. In a reply to a user on Twitter, Cue said that a new beta of iOS 9 will be available next week with Apple Music integration:

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Cue has not been shy as of late on Twitter when it comes to Apple Music, sharing key feature details and announcing payments to artists during the three month free trial period via the social network. Following the Tweets related to the new iOS 9 build, Cue clarified that users can “easily” opt out from paying for Apple Music online and that the bitrate quality is dependent on the type of wireless connection.

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Comments

  1. robertsm76 - 9 years ago

    When will Apple Music come out for the Apple TV?

  2. kjl3000 - 9 years ago

    No preferences for that?

  3. It was a shame seeing so many people with developer builds comment like they entitled and upset no new beta was released. I read commenter say” They better release it today or else”. Really! Anyway, Apple has always released betas every other week. This being an off week meant it was pretty likely that beta 3 wasn’t coming. That being said, I noticed if you download Apple Music from a 8.4 device it can be played on iOS 9 beta 2.

    • Dylan C Paschall - 9 years ago

      How do you get the app from iOS 8.4 to iOS 9?

    • Greg Kaplan (@kaplag) - 9 years ago

      But seriously non devs complaining about a consumer feature not being in a build for a week is pretty bad. It’s possible that the next build will also have a public release, which would make sense that Apple music be included. Everyone who wasn’t using their device to develop should have at least waited for that.

  4. prius3 - 9 years ago

    How much is the bitrate in any case? how many MBs are downloaded for 1hr stream of Beats1 or music?

    • chrisl84 - 9 years ago

      115MB if Im doing the math correctly. 265kbs x 60 sec x 60 min = 921600kb which is 115MB

  5. Kamil Wasik - 9 years ago

    I Don’t understand it, iOS 8.4 have already Apple Music, and iOS9 don’t.

    • Greg Kaplan (@kaplag) - 9 years ago

      You don’t need a music streaming service to test your apps. Merging code can produce bugs. I’m sure they didn’t want to deal with that while trying to get the public release out the door.

      It’s possible the public beta will be out along with iOS 9 beta 3 next week. It makes sense that they would wait for the public facing beta to include the consumer feature.

  6. irelandjnr - 9 years ago

    Lower bitrate on cellular.

  7. PMZanetti - 9 years ago

    Nice of him to comment on it and end any inane discussion of when when when.

  8. PMZanetti - 9 years ago

    I’m confused….iTunes Match/iCloud Music has never been lower bitrate on cellular….you either have enough bandwidth to stream 256 Kbps or you don’t. Is this a NEW development with low bitrate streaming?

    • Greg Kaplan (@kaplag) - 9 years ago

      Does it have to do with beats one being “live”? Maybe before they could just buffer and start your stream whenever but now maybe they want to be able to start playing as close to real time as possible.