Apple Music Web Beta Gets ‘Listen Now’ Tab
Aug. 12, 2020Last September,Apple launched the web version of Apple Musicin beta. The streaming service exited beta testing phase in April and now,Apple has relaunched Apple Music web betawith a new addition.
The new beta of Apple Music webcomes with a ‘Listen Now’ tabthat Apple introduced withiOS 14andmacOS Big Sur. The Listen Now tab replaces the old ‘For You’ tab. It is the default tab that appears when you open Apple Music web.
“Listen Now” on Apple Music offers personalized song recommendations. The page primarily shows the ‘Top Picks’ categorized based on the songs you’ve recently added, the tracks you’ve been listening to on a loop, and more.
The beta version also comes with visual changes in the user interface. The icons in the sidebar are now shown in red color. Apart from that, there are minor improvements in the Made For You category (now inside Listen Now) to bring the design closer to the Apple Music app on macOS.
That said, Apple Music on the web stillmisses out on the visually pleasing time-synced lyricsavailable on Apple Music apps across iOS, macOS, and Android. It will be interesting to see if Apple manages to bring lyrics support to Apple Music web.
Unlike most other beta versions of apps and services, Apple Music web’s beta holds true to its name (not in a good way). In my experience, I found the beta version to be buggy and I ran into a lot of error messages.
Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.
