The controversy in this sub about the icon color change, including all the alternate design proposals, is just crazy to me. I think the new icon is fine. It kind of reminds me of the sanitized minimalist experience I get when I walk into an apple store. Its on brand and really doesn’t make a difference. I also like blue accents over red in general so I might be biased there.

Nobody would ever associate a music note exclusively with a single music app. That is precisely the issue: a musical note is a generic symbol, not a brand identity. It’s like a phone receiver or a speech bubble everyone uses similar symbols because they represent universal functions.
That made sense when Apple Music was essentially just another music service.

Today, it has grown into a full fledged brand of its own. Apple has already been using the Apple logo alongside the word "Music" in promotional materials and other applications for years. The natural next step is to gradually retire the musical note and establish  Music as the core visual identity of the service.

There is also the historical link to iTunes. The musical note carries that legacy, which might explain why Apple continues to hold on to it. However, Apple Music and iTunes are distinct products today. Why keep mixing their visual identities? Separate them once and for all, just as Apple has done with its other products and services.

Ultimately, people can suggest a thousand different colors, but none of them will fix the lack of a genuinely unique identity. Any music service can use a musical note; only Apple can turn the apple into an instantly recognizable symbol for Apple Music.

Goodmorning everyone! I've been on spotify for about 2 years now I like it & everything but I was on Apple music before that. I've been missing the apple UI, it's so much better than Spotify's after all these recent updates. Should I switch? What's your experience with both? Is there a difference? Im also debating getting Apple One since my family is all on the Apple Ecosystem.

Siri AI frequently fails with basic commands in Apple Music that used to consistently work. Super frustrating.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Hello, I am being a little dramatic on the title, but I have been trying and failing so hard to reorganize my AM library, many many years ago when CDs were still a big thing and you could import the music from them into your iTunes library, I added a ton of albums, fast-forward to now, my files are all a mess because it seems like the files I try to add from Apple Music automatically re-add as if I was adding my own imported files from years ago instead of the AM database files, causing a lot of incorrect information on albums such as wrong titles, wrong track numbers, etc. I've tried deleting old library files from my Mac and create a new library but that doesn't work, I hope someone understands and has any advice. Thank you.

I’m worried this change in color presages something bigger and we know Ternus wants service revenue up. Do you think now Apple Music and ITunes are both blue they will merge as they are on Mac?

Along with the icon and color change update, the discs was also improved, now, when you select an disc, only those songs are added to the queue, not the entire album.

What would I do ?

I have a Focal Elegia connected to my MBP with the Apple USB-C DAC Dongle.

I can hear a difference when using the headphones on the iPhone (AAC 256) and my MacBook Pro (Lossless).

The AAC feels (slightly) more boxy/metallic or muffled. It's not a huge difference, but noticeable. I have not tested with AirPods. I only use my APP2 on the iPhone so I doubt there could be a difference there.

Am I the only one?

As it says on the tin. With AM's new logo change, its got me wondering if they are perhaps more transformative changes down the line like device countunity, free versions, and other things I can't quite think of. Do you think Apple has bigger changes and additions to AM in the future?

I have songs on my playlist that play from my iphone, but on my macbook they’re greyed out.

Searching for the song and playing it from there works, but adding it to a playlist greys it out.

I had Apple Music’s for a few years and recently decided to take a break and listen to my cd collection.

Did I lose everything I had collected?

If I renew my subscription under the old user account do I get my music playlists back? Could anything be stored in ITunes?

I still have all my Spotify playlists from years ago, does Apple delete everything and you have to start over?
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Calling all album listeners!

I am in the process of building a service for music discovery. I plan to add support for singles along the line, but for now it is completely album / EP focused.

I won’t go into the specific details of what I have built so far just now, but I am interested to hear from others that listen to albums regularly. What is missing from your Apple Music experience that you would ideally have? Below are a few ideas to get the ball rolling:

1. A more native album queueing experience.
   
2. Dedicated menus for discovering new albums and EPs, rather than single songs, artists and playlists.
   
3. Tracking of how many times I have listened to specific albums.
   
4. How many of an artists discography I have listened to.
   
5. Reviewing of albums (letterboxd, goodreads style).
   
6. Easily being able to see which albums that I have saved but not listened to yet.
   
7. Saving of progress made through an album so I can resume later.

If your disposition is, “honestly I am an album focused listener and I just don’t have a problem” that would also be good to know, as well as features of services like Apple Music that you know and like.

Just received the update on my S26 Ultra

Also, everything new from Apple music is here, including the new title.

Doing some A/B testing with aptX codec makes such a difference in terms of clarity and openness in the perceived sound quality.
I've performed the tests using the Sony XM3 which is getting on a bit and although they are a bit over the top in terms of bass and definitely not audiophile level, they still perform quite well.
For the aptX I used a Macbook Pro 2015 running Mojave since that was the last macOS that supported aptX codec for bluetooth audio, music.apple.com running on Firefox ESR since iTunes on Mojave won't let me log in and Safari won't display the website properly. All songs played without spacial audio.
For AAC bluetooth codec I used the same Sony XM3 and iPhone 16 pro running iOS 27.
The headphones had no special EQ set, nor did they have DSEE HX on.
The difference is really perceivable!
With aptX the sound comes out clearer, more detailed, more spaced out. AAC is somewhat muffled, not as much separation. The bongo beats in Michael Kiwanuka's You Ain't the Problem sounds as if inside my head with iPhone/AAC codec while the Macbook/aptX is so much separated, not like fake stereo but positioned in terms of the other instruments.

What have I learned from this? AM quality is pristine. The source material should be the same regardless if via music.apple.com or the app. The only factor here being the different is the codec used. I find it great that even with lossless turned off, the 256 kbps AAC is more than enough. What I kind of regret knowing now is that AAC codec is under performing on the iPhone and I can't pin it out on the codec itself, on how iPhone outputs the AAC codec or if the Sony XM3's AAC codec is to blame. Many variables to isolate, I guess.

UPDATE: Using the additional tools fox Xcode in Mojave I switched between AAC/SBC/aptX in the audio options and I found out the perceived sound quality from the Mac to the headphones is mostly the same, so iPhone's bluetooth codec is to blame here.
What do you guys think?

Apple Music interface it's now 100% blue and black just like the ios version.

Version 7.0.0-beta (1611)

I find the black & white design strange, I wish they had the purple/blue/red accent of the note as on the iOS 10 app icon.