Lukáš Čambala
Above all, Apple Music aims to fully adapt to its user and get to know his musical taste in order to offer him the most relevant results. That's exactly why Apple Music has a "For You" section that shows you artists you might like based on your listening and taste.
Apple itself explains that its music experts "handpick songs, artists and albums based on what you like and listen to", after which this content will appear in the "For You" section. So the more you use Apple Music, the better and more accurate the service can prepare for you.
Virtually every song that plays in Apple Music can be "liked". The heart icon is used for this, which can be found on the iPhone either after opening the mini-player with the currently playing song, or you can "heart" the entire album, for example, when you open it. It's handy that the heart can also be used from the locked screen of the iPhone or iPad, so when you're on the move and listening to a song you just liked, just turn on the screen and click on the heart.
In iTunes, the heart is always visible in the top mini-player next to the song name. The principle of operation is of course the same as on iOS.
However, the heart is only for "internal" Apple Music purposes, and you won't be able to see tracks marked this way anywhere. Fortunately, this can be bypassed in iTunes by creating a smart playlist, or "dynamic playlist". Just choose to add all the songs you liked to your playlist, and suddenly you have an automatically created list of "heart-shaped" songs.
All the hearts you give out in Apple Music directly affect the content of the "For You" section. The more often you like, the more the service understands what genre you are most likely to be interested in, what your taste is and will offer you artists and content tailored to your needs. Of course, the "For you" section is also influenced by the songs in your library, but for example, songs that you don't listen to or skip because you're not in the mood at the moment are not counted.
Radio stations work a little differently, playing for example based on a selected song (via "Start station"). Here, instead of a heart, you will find a star, which when you click on it, you will get two options: "Play similar songs" or "Play other songs". So if the radio station selects a song you don't like, just choose the second option, and you will influence both the current radio broadcast and the appearance of the "For You" section. The opposite works for "playing similar songs".
In iTunes on Mac, when playing radio stations, next to the asterisk, there is also the heart mentioned above, which is not present on the iPhone when playing this type of music.
Finally, you can manually edit the automatically generated "For you" section. If you find content here that doesn't suit your taste and you no longer want to see it, just hold your finger on the given artist, album or song and select "Less similar recommendations" in the menu at the very bottom. However, this manual influence of the "For You" section apparently only works on iOS, you won't find such an option in iTunes.
Perhaps the best possible adaptability is the reason why Apple offers its users to use the service for three months for free, so that we can customize Apple Music as much as possible during the trial period and then start paying for a fully personalized service that will make sense.
"However, the heart is only for "internal" Apple Music purposes, and you will not be shown songs marked this way anywhere. Fortunately, this can be bypassed in iTunes by creating a smart playlist, or "dynamic playlist". You just have to choose to add all the songs you liked to your playlist, and suddenly you have an automatically created list of "heart-shaped" songs."
Unfortunately, that doesn't work for me... The list is still empty on both iPhone and Mac.
It only works for songs you have downloaded in your music library, it can't show you the others.
Whatever marketing nonsense Apple attaches to it, not having a "like" playlist is simply a fail. The only advantage over Spotify is the videos, but I'd rather have no videos than not have a playlist of my favorite songs.
I use My Music for this, it's an extra step, but for the overall work with Music it's worth it to me personally..
I was also very skeptical about Apple music in the comments, and I have to take my words back. I like the service. I note that I have tried spotify, 8track, and once upon a time LastFm. But I didn't use any of it for a long time and didn't pay.
The only complaint I have is why the hell can't I get a playlist from Apple Music on the iPod Shuffle. After all, it's a maximum of 2GB out of 30 million songs, but I'll probably never copy that anywhere. There are all kinds of activity playlists and I just don't have the option to put them on shuffle and go to work out, run... nothing. Utrum. For me, this is the reason why I will leave apple music after 3 months, the iPod Shuffle is the main listening time, we have three in the family.
I thought that's what star rating is for, which has been there for years. So what are the stars for?
stars are for you .. hearts are, I quote "for internal" Apple Music purposes", in iTunes in Settings/General/Rating choose only "Stars", turn off Apple Music display and continue to use stars
yes, and in the Music app on iOS, just "tap" on the name of the song and the stars are still there
interestingly, Apple's Remote application (iTunes remote control) has not yet undergone a heart update, so it can "only" star so far .. I'm a little afraid of the update (backup for sure), when Apple updated the app for iOS8, it took over a year for them to update again (current version) that fixed missing artwork on iPad..
Again, I was wondering how to create a list of favorite artists, but then I didn't think about it. The only way is that I add at least one album/song of the given artist to my library and then I have it in my library, but then I have to click through to his main page... Is there no other way? So that I can have a list of artists and get to their main page with all their albums with one click? ….. And why are studio albums and singles mixed together??? Terrible confusion…. Spotify has beautifully divided the first studio albums and the singles at the bottom... And most of all, where the hell are Rammstein??? …. But "for you" works really well, you can see apple's handwriting there. I hope that there will definitely be tweaks in those 3 months, otherwise I'll stick with spotify...
Well, I would rather be interested in how to download my music from a Mac to an iPhone when I have Apple Music iCloud turned on. I don't want to download my music from my Mac over the Internet to my iPhone. I have a slow internet and I have it right away via cable (I can download it even without a connection). So far, it seems chaotic to me. For stars, for example. On my Mac, I have a star for one song (I can't get rid of the star - I don't know why), on my iPhone I unstar it, but I still have it in the dynamic playlist and after a while it will star itself again :D Well, I could still survive, but how do I sync music via cable? :) Thanks a lot for the advice :D