After buying the
subscription music service Beats Music somewhat six months ago, Apple is now
working on it to integrate it to its already music streaming services itunes
and Apple TV. After launching of this service, this will compete against other
services available such as the Rdio and Spotify. This new service of
collaboration is yet to be named and Apple is working on that.
Instead of installing the
already existing Beats Music app into iPhones, Apple has decided to fully
integrate Beats Music into iTunes, iOS and Apple TV. The Company is currently
working for the new Beats infused versions of Music app for iPhone, iPad and
iPod touch along with an updated iTunes service for computers that will
integrate the Beats feature.
This whole new service
will entirely work upon cloud streaming. A new search feature will be available
that will locate any song in the Beats/iTunes music menu and the users will be
able to stream music from that menu as well as add songs to their favorite playlist/library.
There will be another option for storing music tracks on their iOS devices or
store all the songs in the cloud.
The user interface will be
designed entirely by Apple discarding the Beat’s red and black famous theme,
even though the whole operation under the hood will that be of Beats
technologies. This is done to give iTunes and the iOS Music apps a consistent
look. With this deal, comes the transition of users from Beats music to this
all new interface, so to ease out that migration of current Beats Music users,
Apple will allow the merging of the Beats Music accounts into their iTunes
profiles.
With every good thing,
there comes a price to pay. Like the previous Beats Music, this new integration
offered by the Apple will not be free. But reports suggests that this will
likely be less expensive than the now $9.99 per month and $99.99 per year cost
of listening to music. Apple initially decided to provide the service at a rate
of $5 a month but music industry officials tell us that the price will be
changed to $7.99 a month. This rate is slightly cheaper than Beats and its
rivals. As for now, Spotify and Rdio both offer music subscriptions at rates of
$9.99 per month.
There is also good news
for Android Beat users that Apple will continue to provide support for Beats
Music service for android. Apple has already put its engineers to work in development
of an Android app for the new Apple branded service integrated with Beats
Music. However, there will be no support from Apple to the Windows Phone users
and they will receive the service from the Beats Music.
About the launch of this
new music streaming service, Apple planned to launch it by this March but it
has been reported that the real possibilities of the launch will be on June at
the Annual Worldwide Developers Conference. But if it’s March, then that will
be a good news for the Music enthusiasts around.