Apple Music Review

iTunes has a flat, clean design with playback controls at the top-left, search at top-right and a row of ways to categorize available media beneath that. Plus it can be minimized to take up much less space. The minimized interface is called the MiniPlayer and it can be set to display on top of all other windows. It's possible to show iTunes on top of all other windows when playing movies as well.

iTunes can synchronize playback information, podcast subscriptions & settings and automatically download purchases made on other devices.

iTunes has a huge catalog of videos, songs, and podcasts in the iTunes store.

The Apple Music streaming service focuses on playlists selected by curators rather than intelligent radios in other streaming services. Choosing playlists selected by the curators improves the experience with another method of music discovery. Of course you can still heart or disheart any song on your own to improve the service's suggestions in the For You section.

iTunes includes a streaming music service called Radio that creates stations based on chosen genre, song or artist. Requires Apple ID to access.

iTunes allows streaming audio to all Airplay enabled devices within Wi-Fi range. It's possible to select more than one device to play a song at the same time.

Beats 1 is a 24-hour radio station station run by Apple. It is hosted Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga.

iTunes parental controls can be used to deny access to certain parts of iTunes such as podcasts, internet radio, store or shared libraries and restrict access to media that has a certain rating or warnings.

Musicians post on the Apple Music streaming service about news, ideas, new music etc. You can engage with them directly on the site.

Includes streaming lossless formats as part of the basic subscription.

When crossfade is set to automatic, its length changes based on what's playing to keep the flow between songs.

DJ sets can be listened to like it’s a set.