Linked List: January 27, 2018

Saturday, 27 January 2018

How HomePod Works With Apple Music, iTunes Match, iCloud Music Library, AirPlay, and FLAC Files ★

Serenity Caldwell:

I’m still trying to sort a lot of this out myself, but here’s how everything is supposed to work, from what I’ve been able to confirm.

In addition to what she reports here, I have heard from a friend seeded with HomePod that it does work with tracks that are not Apple Music or purchased from the iTunes Store if you have iCloud Music Library enabled. That’s big.

Update: Caldwell is hearing the same thing. So strange that Apple is letting this confusion linger.

Logic Pro X 10.4 Release Notes ★

A few thoughts:

This seems like a huge release to only get a + .1 version number update. But I get it — it looks like the Logic team took this release to tackle a ton of little things that have been on their list for a long time.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we got public release notes that were this detailed for all apps from Apple?
The reaction from Logic users seems over the moon. You don’t typically see pro users so happy with a software update.