Month: December 2022

Apple Introduces ‘Apple Music Sing’

Apple Inc December 7, 2022 0

December 6, 2022

PRESS RELEASE

Apple introduces Apple Music Sing

Apple Music expands its world-class lyrics experience with a new feature for fans to easily sing along to tens of millions of songs

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced Apple Music Sing, an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favorite songs with adjustable vocals¹ and real-time lyrics. Apple Music Sing offers multiple lyric views to help fans take the lead, perform duets, sing backup, and more — all integrated within Apple Music’s unparalleled lyrics experience. Coupled with an ever-expanding catalog that features tens of millions of the world’s most singable songs, Apple Music Sing makes it fun and easy for anyone to participate, however and wherever they choose.

Apple Music Sing will be available later this month to Apple Music subscribers worldwide, and can be enjoyed on iPhone, iPad, and the new Apple TV 4K.

“Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats. “We already know our users all over the world love to follow along to their favorite songs, so we wanted to evolve this offering even further to enable even more engagement around music through singing. It’s really a lot of fun, our customers are going to love it.”

Apple Music Sing includes:

Adjustable vocals: Users now have control over a song’s vocal levels. They can sing with the original artist vocals, take the lead, or mix it up on millions of songs in the Apple Music catalog.

Real-time lyrics: Users can sing along to their favorite songs with animated lyrics that dance to the rhythm of the vocals.

Background vocals: Vocal lines sung simultaneously can animate independently from the main vocals to make it easier for users to follow.

Duet view: Multiple vocalists show on opposite sides of the screen to make duets or multi-singer tracks easy to sing along to.

Apple Music will also be launching a suite of more than 50 dedicated companion playlists featuring all of the epic songs, duets, choruses, and anthems that have been compelling people all around the world to sing — fully optimized for the Apple Music Sing experience.

Availability

Apple Music Sing will be available later this month for Apple Music subscribers worldwide.²

Apple Music Sing will be available on all compatible iPhone and iPad models as well as the new Apple TV 4K.

About Apple Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.About Apple Music Apple loves music. Apple revolutionized the music experience with iPod and iTunes. Today, the award-winning Apple Music celebrates musicians, songwriters, producers, and fans with a catalog of over 100 million songs, expertly curated playlists, and the best artist interviews, conversations, and global premieres with Apple Music Radio. With original content from the most respected and beloved people in music, autoplay, time-synced lyrics, lossless audio, and immersive sound powered by Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos, Apple Music offers the world’s best listening experience, helping listeners discover new music and enjoy their favorites while empowering the global artist community. Apple Music is available in over 165 countries and regions on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod mini, CarPlay, and online at music.apple.com, plus popular smart speakers, smart TVs, and Android and Windows devices. Apple Music is ad-free and never shares consumer data with third parties. More information is available at apple.com/apple-music.

The vocal slider adjusts vocal volume, but does not fully remove vocals.
The feature is not available for Apple Music Voice Plan subscribers.

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How to set up an Apple AirTag

Dan Uff December 7, 2022 0

Apple AirTags are great for keeping track of stuff, such as your car keys, or anything else that maybe displaced.

The setup is easy and straight forward IF you have the below:

Make sure your devices is updated to iOS 14.5 or later.
Location is turned ON.
An AirTag.
An iPhone.
Bluetooth tuned ON.
You're familiar with FindMy.
Connected to WiFi or your cellular provider.
If you're setting up more then one AirTag, you must set them up one at a time.

Now that you have the above, do the following:

Bring the AirTag and the iPhone close to each other.
Remove the protective film from the AirTag.
Remove the protective tag from the battery on the AirTag.
You'll then hear a beep from the AirTag.
Go to your iPhone.
A window should pop-up for AirTag setup.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
After that, attach the AirTag to what ever you wish to keep track of.
That's it.

This tip came from Apple Support YouTube Channel, which can be found here.

Name of combined HBO Max and Discovery + Service to be called . . . .

CompuScoop Staff December 6, 2022 2

The mashup of HBO Max and Discovery+ is likely to be called just “Max,” according to a new report.

Lawyers for Warner Bros. Discovery are vetting Max as the name for the combined HBO Max/Discovery+ service, CNBC reported, citing anonymous sources. While other names are being considered, Max is the top choice, per the report.

A rep for Warner Bros. Discovery declined to confirm that “Max” was the leading choice for the name of the service and said the company is still discussing what the combined streamer will be call.

Warner Bros. Discovery moved up its planned U.S. launch of the combined HBO Max-Discovery+ platform to spring 2023, a quarter ahead of what it had been aiming for previously, CEO David Zaslav said on the media company’s earnings call last month.

“At the end of the day, putting all the content together was the only way we saw to make this a viable business,” JB Perrette, president and CEO of global streaming and games at Warner Bros. Discovery, said this summer when the combination plans were first announced. “Bringing HBO Max and Discovery+ together is aimed at cutting churn so “there’s something for everyone in the household,” he said.

Whatever the name ends up being, WBD will preserve HBO as one of its major brands, Perrette told analysts: “HBO will always be the beacon and the ultimate brand that stands for television quality.”

Execs haven’t publicly discussed what the name or pricing of the HBO Max-Discovery+ combo will be. On the Q3 earnings call, Perette said pricing is one the things “that makes us particularly optimistic about the products coming together,” in addition to “broader positioning that allows us to move from a product that may have a slightly more tailored approach to a fewer number of people in a household to a product that actually appeals to everybody in a household.” The exec noted that the company believes it has room to increase the price of HBO Max, which for the ad-free tier has not changed from $14.99/month since it was launched in May 2020.

Currently, the domain name “max.com” is registered to and used by Max International, a nutritional supplement products company based in Salt Lake City. Warner Bros. Discovery’s internal code name for the HBO Max/Discovery+ merged service is “BEAM,” according to the CNBC report.

The merged HBO Max/Discovery+ will combine the best elements of both services, Perrette has said previously. For example, he said HBO Max has had “performance and customer issues” — including most recently with the premiere of “The House of the Dragon” — but offers a rich set of features; Discovery+ has more limited features but provides a more robust underlying delivery infrastructure, he said.

In addition to the combination of HBO Max and Discovery+, Zaslav said WBD will be “aggressively attacking” the low end of the streaming market with its own free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) offering to launch sometime in 2023. “As a company with the largest film and TV library in the industry, we have a unique opportunity to increase our addressable market and drive real value, and we plan to move quickly,” Zaslav said.

Via: Variety

How to Cancel an Apple-Related Subscription on Mac

Dan Uff December 5, 2022 1

If you subscribe to Apple services such as Apple One, you may want to cancel it at some point in the future.

Open the App Store app.
Click your name. If you can't find your name, click Sign In.
Click Account Settings.
Scroll to Subscriptions, then click Manage.
Next to the subscription, click Edit.
Click Cancel Subscription. If there is no Cancel or Cancel Subscription button, the subscription is already canceled.

What if you cannot find a subscription you wish to cancel? Click here to find out.