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Apple Music and Apple Maps Launching New Concert Features Today

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Apple today announced new concert discovery features for Apple Music and Apple Maps that will be rolling out around the world beginning today.

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Apple Music is getting a new Set Lists page that spotlights "a selection of major tours, letting fans listen to set lists and read about the productions."

Apple Maps is gaining 40 new guides curated by Apple Music editors that "highlight the best venues to experience live music" around the world, with initial featured cities including Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York City, San Francisco, Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, Tokyo, Melbourne, Sydney, and Mexico City.

In both Apple Music and Apple Maps, users will now be able to browse upcoming performances directly in the apps via Shazam's concert discovery feature.

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Apple Maps needs a dynamic scale on the map. It has current weather and air quality, why not a scale? Every map has a scale.

If I am driving between cities it could dynamically show distance to cities or towns around my current position if I open maps to see my position (not in directions mode).
 
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PlasmStudios said:
Another feature that will set Apple Music apart, which is great. But Apple continues to ignore fundamental features like crossfade, EQ, performance improvements, etc. etc. that users have been asking for years at this point.

Obligatory: Hopefully iOS 17 shall pave the way for better AM and Siri experiences.
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This doesn’t set Apple Music apart. Spotify has had this feature for years. The other month I used it to learn about and buy a Tomorrow X Together concert ticket. I’m guessing Spotify got a cut of the sale.

Either way, custom EQ is a badly lacking feature. I know Apple want to finely tune our listening experience, but sometimes I just want that Xtra Bass (read: extreme bass) feature that Sony offers.
 
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I guess Maps isn't for just commuting these days. There is no traffic flow or accident info unless you are using route and directions. Thank you, but I know how to get home from work. I just want to see what the traffic conditions are without having to set up a route. But Maps will clog my screen with info on all the restaurants and bars on my way home. Maybe Apple is trying to tell me something. Google isn't much better.
 
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As soon as Apple allows you to add an artist's entire discography to your library (like Spotify) I'll switch back. I hate adding individual albums, especially when they have a large catalogue.
 
Wow, Vienna at the start of the service.
Doesn't happen too often for us in Austria and is highly welcome.
Just for perspective, for using Siri on Apple TV we had to wait around 3ish years – couldn't even use it in English.
 
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Hey Apple...
Instead of adding features and features, how about fixing the core functionality of the music app?
Like tracks not starting, lag, errors, missing album in search and a way to actually discover new music based on your taste?
For real...
 
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elopedthought said:
Wow, Vienna at the start of the service.
Doesn't happen too often for us in Austria and is highly welcome.
Just for perspective, for using Siri on Apple TV we had to wait around 3ish years – couldn't even use it in English.
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I am keen to see which concerts Apple chooses to feature. I am not optimistic.
 
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Surely this can be turned off so I don’t even have to see the options right? I don’t like it when an app, which is mainly used for X suddenly gets integrated onto other parts of the OS (or other system app).

Reason I also deactivated „For You“ from messages, photos etc as soon as I could.

Gives me „Ads as a service“ vibes
 
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Why is this an Apple-picked list of 5 mainstream bands that Apple loves
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Because that is the crux of Apple's much-self-lauded "curation"—a focus on major label, corporate-backed music to the absolute punishment of the vibrant indie scene. It's reflected in that Apple has no easy onboarding process for non-represented artists, it's represented in Apple's curation that regularly ignores indie labels in favor of the Big Four, it's reflected in initiatives like this that contain many great ideas, but are so limited in their scope as to be useless to anyone who has even a basic interest in exploring music beyond narrow genres.

Apple Music's "curation" is to streaming services as Top 40 was to radio. There's zero wrong with that format, it's a good one among many, but as a tentpole it is so limiting when music in the age of self-production and distribution so broad, so vibrant, so interesting. It's times like this that Apple feels like a well-intentioned but particularly clueless follower, not a leader.
 
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Be nice to see this expand. I’d love it to cover Belfast, as that’s my closest place for decent gigs.
 
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Because that is the crux of Apple's much-self-lauded "curation"—a focus on major label, corporate-backed music to the absolute punishment of the vibrant indie scene. It's reflected in that Apple has no easy onboarding process for non-represented artists, it's represented in Apple's curation that regularly ignores indie labels in favor of the Big Four, it's reflected in initiatives like this that contain many great ideas, but are so limited in their scope as to be useless to anyone who has even a basic interest in exploring music beyond narrow genres.

Apple Music's "curation" is to streaming services as Top 40 was to radio. There's zero wrong with that format, it's a good one among many, but as a tentpole it is so limiting when music in the age of self-production and distribution so broad, so vibrant, so interesting. It's times like this that Apple feels like a well-intentioned but particularly clueless follower, not a leader.
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So true. 15 years ago Slacker did a better job „curating“ based on my listing history & favorite genre picks than Apple is doing now.
 
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