hi, how do I sign up for a free trial? everytime I click start 90 day trial, it always saying choose your membership plan.

Yeah and it's the same thing for google play music all-access, too, making it seem like you're buying your plan right away. The thing with these so-called trials is they either ask or fake ask for a payment method right away, hence why, in the case of google play music all access (not sure for apple music or if it's possible on Apple Music) unless you have a phone, you have to have a credit card or google play store credit to start your google play music all-access trial even if you cancel it on day 30. The way they do it is extremely sketchy at that. It would work a lot better if they did it the way something like all-in-play does it where you have fifteen days with no obligation like choosing a payment method straight off, and after the fifteen day trial, if you don't like it, or can't afford it at the time, you can just leave the account alone, no worry, no hassle. No worrying about it being autorenewed.

Ok so I will subscribe to apple music when I have the iTunes gift card.

One thing worth knowing is if Apple Music offline music downloads are stored in that same mp4 container file format they were stored in pre2009, with that same drm. Cuzz if they are, of course they won't be able to be played on stuff like the victor reader stream. That sucks, cuzz while obviously the drm would not surprisingly accompany Apple music tracks, not everyone's got a mobile device to listen to that stuff on. Itunes being available on windows, and most of the masses using windows as their primary system, some of us with players have either a stream, bookport plus or some other mp3 player rockboxed for accessibility, we wouldn't be able to play the offline music on the road, and not all of us can lug a computer around to play music. As some of y'all remember, when tracks were drm protected, it was possible and ok to just copy them to a cd. Obviously, so you could buy them. I'm not trying to envoke possible ways around drm discussions again but still, with Apple wanting to get Apple music out to everyone, hence why it's the first Apple service of Apple services to come to *android! I'd think it wouldn't be a bad idea to include ways to play on other players. Like a method to authorize files to play on the sd card or usb stick the files are contained on, sorta like the way audible does it.

Well that's a pretty solid system and I get why they use that system but still, it's a pity for people who actually own portable players that don't support this as the point of this is to play your subscription on anything you own Apple, Android, pc etc, but no portable player support? Then again, while I understand the need for drm especially on a subscription-based music service, there are always downs to protection systems that hurt the legit customer more than a cracker of which the genuine customer is not. At least they should do it the way Napster used to do it with drm-wma. Although the problem with that, and a huge one at that, is it only supported players that carried a "Microsoft Plays for Sure" logo which a lot of players don't support, even Microsoft's own! Zoon players don't support it which totally makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. But if you paid an additional 5 bucks a month on top of the standard subscription, you are able to use your music with portable devices. Apple Music should have that same thing attached.

I was just over at AppleVis looking at their blog about the new music app and the comments from their members. By far the hottest topic is that apparently you are automatically signed up to follow all the artists in your music collection. It's not known whether this is a bug or intentional. What is known is that it's a royal pain to remove all the unwanted follows.

I was never a big fan of Steve Jobs, but at least when he was running Apple, they weren't so intrusive or made such stupid choices about what their customers wanted or didn't want.

Yeah, they added their music streaming service to the music app, but they took a lot more away from it. I, for one, want the old music app back!

Edit: You can still access your library by track title, album, genre, etc., I missed the category button. It's not as good as the tabs from the old version, but it does work.