Apple Music?

I was looking forward to Apple Music! It baffles me that it currently isn't on iOS 9 though! I hate when they don't give out what's paid for developers. They are releasing the betas to the public and developers accounts aren't getting all the new features, like apple music. What are we even paying for anymoe? May as well just wait a month after the WWDC each year now and everything will be handed to you free WITH all the extra features. Definitely my last paid dev account this year.

Guess I should have taken the Taylor Swift approach and write a Tumblr post so apple can at least give me what I PAID for.

You can't develop against Apple Music. There's no API. It doesn't expose anything developers need. When it plays music, it behaves exactly the same as any other audio source. There's literally no reason for it to be available to developers.

Some of you developers are very condenscending toward those who may not be as advanced as you.

You know I will have to agree with you a little. Don't get me wrong, I like the latest updates but I know the whole deal with testing and retesting code for debugging purposes. The Beta Program to me is no more than a "here you go regular users" so the hoard of complaints can come in. Most of them just want the latest to brag to their friends, they don't know what a Radar is. People wonder why developers are stuck up, well it's because they are under appreciated for their effort and time, and are expected to fix a bug at a demanding user's beck and call. Debugging is not that simple. Apple Music will come when it comes. Meanwhile, try it on a Mac/PC or iOS 8.4 device.

It has nothing to do with being condescending. It's about being a developer that expects and doesn't lose their *%#@ over issues and missing features versus someone that just wants the beta to play with that may cause problems that they aren't prepared to accept or deal with. If that makes me condescending then so be it. I get wanting the new cool things, but you must also accept the potential consequences.

I develop for a large Fire Department and use my personal devices (paid for by said dept.) because using devices used for fire ground ops, patient care reports, and mobile data terminals critical to response would be irresponsible. I use personal devices to develop and beta test next generations of iOS so that when the time comes I don't have to take units out of service if something isn't working with our CAD and PCR software. The phone and iPad that I use for betas I use every single day as my personal devices. (Regardless of what's recommended by Apple) All you high and mighty developers making flappy bird and selfie apps, should just relax, not everyone has the luxury of having multiple devices to develop on, if you're not gonna be positive with other PAYING members of the Dev program then don't say anything... I for one would like to use apple music on my personal devices, and I'm a "real" developer!!! (No, we don't allow games or music services on deployed devices for you extra sirly devs that will try and jump down my throat for sticking up for others).

Well said Aggiesrwe03.

I frankly can't understand all the b**ching and moaning that these so called "devs" indulge in to point fingers and tell someone, "You're holding it wrong."

Unless of course they work for Apple. Then it all makes sense lol

Correction,

The music players is substantially redesigned in iOS 8.4 production. The music Library / Db has also been modified to accomodate the new Apple Music DRM based content. Same as it was for iTunes match. There are applications and services that have dependencies on these core functions.

I could go on but how about you "prove" that it doesn't instead.

...and the only way to test against these is by running iOS 8.4 on a device.

I completely agree, I think the 'complaints' people have towards regular users using beta's is fair. There are things released in the latest beta that completely eradicate functionality within developer's apps, the purpose of these betas are for developers to fix the functionality that may be broken before public release. It was just a shame to see the majority of topics on this forum seemed to be from regular users that have downloaded the beta and are complaining about things that aren't relevant to development, where I thought it would be nice if the bulk of topics on the forum would be around developers sharing ideas for using new best practices and how to adopt the new functionality apple has included withing their own apps, as well as workarounds for additions that break existing funcitonality.

I totally agree with this, Regular Users using the betas and submitting "bug reports" for ommited features that are planned for future releases. It was called Developer Preview for a reason!

Its the same with OSX I've seen regular users install it on production machines then submit bug reports to apple because VMWare doesn't work with the non-stable software they just installed.

I find it ironic that they preview Apple Music to a room full of developers but leave them in the dark on launch day,

That is a bit funny. And it's ironic developers are receiving it after public release.

You can also play Beats 1 radio by asking Siri to do it for you I'm on iOS 9 beta-2 it works just fine

it is not there