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froggybrolly said:

MBear said:

Re Live Voicemail, will this be something that carriers need to implement or will it ‘just work’ without any other involvement?
UK carriers are notoriously useless at implementing great features such as visual voicemail and E-sim support….

It already works in the UK on my phone (a UK model iPhone 12 mini with an EE-based MVNO SIM) by setting the device region to US, and the device/Siri language to English (US) — I think it works by the iPhone answering the call rather than letting it go to the carrier’s voicemail, which is quite nifty. (This doesn’t affect the App Store region)

Just a shame that Apple have for some reason decided not to officially make it available outside of the US, like with Live Captions for media, as both of these are great accessibility features. I’ve left my phone pretending to be US as a result…

Am I the only person who remembers when they launched Apple Music theu went about human curation and how it was much better ?

chasm said:

dewme said:

Thanks for pointing this out.

The reason I emphasized "discovered" is that the algorithm seems to be weighted towards finding music that is quite similar to what you already listen to based on what's in your library. I can't tell whether it uses your play history too. I've also found that it also "discovers" music that is already in my library. This begs the question of what "discovery" means to to the algorithm and to you.

I don't think Apple is collecting data from your library as much as it is from songs you have liked/loved, and then polling similar artists you don't appear to have listened to on any of the other "stations" they have. That might be why it occasionally plays you something you already have, perhaps.

My own quick take on it pretty much matches yours: this is a station I could listen to for quite a while, occasionally asking Siri to identify a particular song so I can investigate further. It's good to bust out of your pre-ordained "era" or "genre" or "set of artists" every now and again.