Apple Music’s first beta launches on the Play Store

We’ve known it was coming, but Apple Music is finally available on the Google Play Store. There’s a catch, though; as of right now, the app is still in beta. There are some missing features that will be added in down the line, but right now you’ll at least have access to your Apple music library, if you have one.

Even though Apple makes the app, you can tell they at least tried to put Google’s Material Design guidelines front and center. You can tell Apple made it, but it feels right at home with other Android applications, which is a great thing. You’ll find that a few features are absent, though, including music videos and the ability to sign up for an Apple Music family plan in the app, but neither of those are absolute dealbreakers, especially since the app looks really great.

With that being said, the app is still in beta, and you might run into issues. I couldn’t ever get my personal music library to load on an LG V10, but it worked on a Galaxy S6, and there was some general sluggishness when moving in and out of the settings and different sections of the app. Playback worked well enough in the curated music section, so if you can at least get your music to appear you’ll be able to listen to anything you want. Searching for music in Apple’s catalog was perfectly fine in my testing.

Anybody planning on jumping ship from Google Play Music or Spotify for Apple Music now that there’s an Android app?

source: TechCrunch

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