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ChrisD.

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

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Does anyone subscribe to it? I cancelled my Deezer Family subscription as I think they've put the price up and so have Spotify it seems. Currently I pay separately for 200 GB of iCloud storage and have some family members on it plus a lot of photos, but that's filling up. We also watch Apple TV+ and although the free period has been extended, I actually have no idea until when. Apple One, with Fitness (which we both used to use), Apple Music, 2TB of iCloud, News etc is £29.99. Just curious what people here do for their subscriptions services?
 
Thanks both. I've just signed up to the trial. Not sure why I haven't done it sooner as I have a lot of my CDs ripped already which I'm now importing into Music. Then there's the additional benefits which I can share with family.
 
Feek said:
Remember iTunes Match as well. iTunes Match is for music you own, Apple Music is for music you stream.

I pay for iTunes Match as well, some of the CDs I've ripped into iTunes aren't on Apple Music so it still means I can listen to them on any of my devices.
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Were you reading my mind?

I presumed that Apple Music would do this, given there's a check box to sync the library. I couldn't work out why I wasn't seeing it on other devices and was about to come and ask. :cry:
 
Not sure I'll use iTunes Match, it looks like it doesn't keep the original quality of all devices and simply streams your content in 256 Kbps from the iTunes Store, rather than keeping the original lossless quality.
 
Hmm. I was experimenting last night (with gin) and Apple Music. Using my AirPod Max, I'd play a song I have ripped in lossless, then play the same song from the Apple Music catalogue which also claimed to be lossless. My local copy was superior. Then again that might be gin affecting things and maybe the local copy simply being louder. :cry:
 
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I've thought of getting Apple One but honestly, the only services I would really use are Apple Music and Apple News+. I'd have to have a look on what is available on Apple TV+ to make a decision. Not sure if there is much on it to pull me in. I've got free Apple Music until September so I don't need to decide until then really,
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I think it really comes into its own if you have family or friends who would use the services.
 
BMox81 said:
iTunes Match is included as part of Apple Music if you didn’t know already.
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I did wonder this, but it doesn't appear to be working.

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I've added a load of music on my MacBook but I can't see it on any other device.
 
Yup. I had a load of duplicates for some reason so I've resolved that at the source folder level, cleared the library out and then imported all again, it seems to uploading now.
 
Local news is just horrendous isn't it. Poorly written, ad riddled, click bait rubbish. My local one is so bad that the pages don't even load right when viewing through a DNS ad blocker, and my iPhone gets super hot. I just don't bother anymore.
 
Has anyone had issues adding family members? Added someone yesterday and they got the notification for Apple Music, but iCloud storage is still 5 GB and no option to create custom email addresses. I signed them out of iCloud and back in again, I also removed from family and added again, no change. I checked again this morning and it's still no solved. I'll try again later but I think this might be one for Apple to look into.
 
For anyone else with the iCloud+ issue, I did a screen share with Apple support and they had me disable iCloud+ sharing at a family level and re-enable it. That fixed the issue (for now).
 
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ChrisD. said:
For anyone else with the iCloud+ issue, I did a screen share with Apple support and they had me disable iCloud+ sharing at a family level and re-enable it. That fixed the issue (for now).
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This didn't work. Ended up having a 90 minute call with a senior advisor who has gone through log collection to log a case with Apple engineering.
 
I’ve dropped mine down to the 200 GB one. My mate added me to his Office 365 Family which gives me 1TB storage and I wasn’t using Apple Fitness or News+ all that much. £10 a month saved.
 
Tythus said:
News+ is what I use most tbh which does frustrate me it's only on the top tier as I could live without tv+/arcade
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Fair, I use it a few times a month, certainly not enough to warrant £10 a month for it (I know there are other benefits too).
 
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