Apple Music Replay aggregates users' top-played songs of the year

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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited December 2019
Apple on Wednesday updated Apple Music with a new feature called Replay, providing listeners a dynamically refreshed, dedicated hub for their top-played tracks of 2019 and beyond.

Apple Music Replay


Available now, Apple Music Replay is similar to Spotify's "Wrapped," a popular year-in-review feature that presents subscribers a list of their most-played songs.

Unlike Wrapped, however, Apple's take is constantly refreshed and updated throughout the year, meaning the playlist changes to reflect evolving user tastes, TechCrunch reports. Playlists and metadata used to create the dynamic Apple Music Replay are updated on Sundays, according to Apple.

While the company is rolling out Replay for 2019, Apple Music subscribers will also find playlists for past years, which have been retroactively generated using listening data. Users who started with the service when it launched in 2015, and continued their subscription into 2019, should have five playlists available in a new section in the Apple Music app or online.

Some users might be forced to visit and sign in to the dedicated Apple Music Replay website to generate an initial playlist.

Along with insights and information about listening trends like the number of artists and albums listened to over the year, Replay breaks down top content by hours, number of times played and other learned metrics. Past years are likewise divided into distinct listening categories for easy consumption.

Like other Apple Music playlists, Replay tracks can be shared with friends, downloaded, saved and more.

Apple Music continues to add features as it competes against streaming industry stalwart Spotify. In October, Spotify said its paying subscriber base hit 113 million people with growth supposedly doubling that of Apple's service. Apple Music reached 60 million subscribers in June.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 16
    mattinozmattinoz Posts: 2,451member
    There was a third party version of this last year that required you to request meta-data from Apple to work.

    I guess it was fairly popular.
  • Reply 2 of 16
    mobirdmobird Posts: 758member
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    razorpitflyingdpchemengin1
  • Reply 3 of 16
    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    I 100% disagree. I expect it to be sorted as mine are, by the first letter of the artist/band sans articles like "A" or "The" etc. If you don't like it, that's what this panel is for, and it takes like 5 seconds to edit an entire album:


    razorpitmobirdStrangeDays
  • Reply 4 of 16
    19831983 Posts: 1,225member
    Probably nearly all Hip-Hop...boring!
  • Reply 5 of 16
    I added all mine. I love nostaljic stuff like this! Anyone know if it's US only? Me and a friend like to listen to AM playlists and talk over FaceTime, but my friend isn't in the states. 

    Really cool idea for Apple to do this though. 
  • Reply 6 of 16
    zhtfreak said:
    I added all mine. I love nostaljic stuff like this! Anyone know if it's US only? Me and a friend like to listen to AM playlists and talk over FaceTime, but my friend isn't in the states. 

    Really cool idea for Apple to do this though. 
    Working fine in the UK
  • Reply 7 of 16
    1983 said:
    Probably nearly all Hip-Hop...boring!
    It will only be nearly all Hip-Hop if that’s what you listen to. 
    fastasleepStrangeDays
  • Reply 8 of 16
    mobirdmobird Posts: 758member
    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    I 100% disagree. I expect it to be sorted as mine are, by the first letter of the artist/band sans articles like "A" or "The" etc. If you don't like it, that's what this panel is for, and it takes like 5 seconds to edit an entire album:


    Where are you doing this editing in Music that the window above is showing up? You can learn something new every day, and this would be new for me. I have a vinyl record collection of 5,000+ titles (worked for WEA - Warner/Electra/Atlantic during the '70's doing A&R) and they are all alphabetized by artist by last name (the way it was done in the '70's in the industry) and I would like to do the same in Music.
    Thanks
    edited November 2019
  • Reply 9 of 16
    1983 said:
    Probably nearly all Hip-Hop...boring!
    Didn't even finish the first sentence of the article. /slowclap
    StrangeDays
  • Reply 10 of 16

    mobird said:
    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    I 100% disagree. I expect it to be sorted as mine are, by the first letter of the artist/band sans articles like "A" or "The" etc. If you don't like it, that's what this panel is for, and it takes like 5 seconds to edit an entire album:


    Where are you doing this editing in Music that the window above is showing up? You can learn something new every day, and this would be new for me. I have a vinyl record collection of 5,000+ titles (worked for WEA - Warner/Electra/Atlantic during the '70's doing A&R) and they are all alphabetized by artist by last name (the way it was done in the '70's in the industry) and I would like to do the same in Music.
    Thanks
    Select tracks. Cmd-I.

    You're welcome.
  • Reply 11 of 16
    mobirdmobird Posts: 758member

    mobird said:
    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    I 100% disagree. I expect it to be sorted as mine are, by the first letter of the artist/band sans articles like "A" or "The" etc. If you don't like it, that's what this panel is for, and it takes like 5 seconds to edit an entire album:


    Where are you doing this editing in Music that the window above is showing up? You can learn something new every day, and this would be new for me. I have a vinyl record collection of 5,000+ titles (worked for WEA - Warner/Electra/Atlantic during the '70's doing A&R) and they are all alphabetized by artist by last name (the way it was done in the '70's in the industry) and I would like to do the same in Music.
    Thanks
    Select tracks. Cmd-I.

    You're welcome.
    Not on the iPhone?
  • Reply 12 of 16
    1983 said:
    Probably nearly all Hip-Hop...boring!
    You didn't even read the article, did you?
    edited November 2019
  • Reply 13 of 16

    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    The name of the act is Aaron Neville, which is why it's sorted by "A". Yes it's also his name, but it's the name of the act. If you want to sort it by his last name, that's a deviation from the norm. Not a bug.
    fastasleep
  • Reply 14 of 16

    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    The name of the act is Aaron Neville, which is why it's sorted by "A". Yes it's also his name, but it's the name of the act. If you want to sort it by his last name, that's a deviation from the norm. Not a bug.
    Errr. No, I have solo albums by Aaron Neville they belong in the "N's" for Neville. There is the act "The Neville Brothers", that would be in the "N's" as well. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/neville-brothers-mn0000891497 ;
    edited November 2019
  • Reply 15 of 16
    mobird said:

    mobird said:
    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    I 100% disagree. I expect it to be sorted as mine are, by the first letter of the artist/band sans articles like "A" or "The" etc. If you don't like it, that's what this panel is for, and it takes like 5 seconds to edit an entire album:


    Where are you doing this editing in Music that the window above is showing up? You can learn something new every day, and this would be new for me. I have a vinyl record collection of 5,000+ titles (worked for WEA - Warner/Electra/Atlantic during the '70's doing A&R) and they are all alphabetized by artist by last name (the way it was done in the '70's in the industry) and I would like to do the same in Music.
    Thanks
    Select tracks. Cmd-I.

    You're welcome.
    Not on the iPhone?
    Uh, no. You're not going to be doing any deep Music Library tweaks on iOS. Also, who scrolls through a large library alphabetically on the iPhone when you can much more quickly just search a couple letters?
    edited November 2019
  • Reply 16 of 16
    mobird said:

    mobird said:
    mobird said:
    Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
    Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.
    I 100% disagree. I expect it to be sorted as mine are, by the first letter of the artist/band sans articles like "A" or "The" etc. If you don't like it, that's what this panel is for, and it takes like 5 seconds to edit an entire album:


    Where are you doing this editing in Music that the window above is showing up? You can learn something new every day, and this would be new for me. I have a vinyl record collection of 5,000+ titles (worked for WEA - Warner/Electra/Atlantic during the '70's doing A&R) and they are all alphabetized by artist by last name (the way it was done in the '70's in the industry) and I would like to do the same in Music.
    Thanks
    Select tracks. Cmd-I.

    You're welcome.
    Not on the iPhone?
    Uh, no. You're not going to be doing any deep Music Library tweaks on iOS. Also, who scrolls through a large library alphabetically on the iPhone when you can much more quickly just search a couple letters?
    That's too bad, as I interface with the iOS Music app for running my HomePods and use it with my Home Theater when I am being lazy or just want to check out a release before purchasing.  I use the Discogs app for cataloging my LP collection and utilize the AllMusic site for reference as well. Back in the day of ripping CD'S, I used an application called Jaikoz for cleaning up music files and ensuring the correct album art was used and then imported them to iTunes.
    edited November 2019
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