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JULY 23, 2017
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pple Music was redesigned in 2016 in an effort to streamline the app. While Apple did succeed in its efforts to make the app easier to navigate, it's still quite easy to get turned around when hunting for music across Apple's vast, 40-millionplus song catalogue. Here are some tips to help you keep track of which end is up when rocking out with Apple Music.
what the Play Next and Play Later options do. Play Next adds a song to the top of your Up Next queue so it plays next, while Play Later adds it to the bottom of your queue.
Scroll down for shuffle and repeat
You might be wondering where the shuffle and repeat options disappeared to. Before the app's redesign this year, they were readily available on the Now Playing panel. Now you need to scroll down a bit to see Shuffle and
View album of song playing
When you discover an awesome song in a playlist, you are only a couple of taps away from being able to view the album on which it appears. From the Now Playing panel, you'll see the artist and album info in red letters below the title of the current song playing. Tap those red letters and the current song will continue to play while Apple Music opens the album so you can read its description (if there is one) and peruse its tracklist.
Add to Library vs. Download
By default, the "+" button for a song or the "+ADD" button for an album adds it to your library but doesn't download it for offline use, but you can change this. If you want everything on your Library tab to also be available when you are without a cellular or Wi-Fi connection, head to Settings > Music and toggle on Automatic
Downloads. Note: Only do this if you have an iPhone with lots of storage space or if you are particularly choosy about what you add to your library.
Customize your Library view
You can choose which headings are displayed at the top of your library. Tap the Library tab and then tap the Edit button in the top right to choose which items to add or remove.
Repeat. You'll get to them before the lyrics and well before your Up Next song queue.
Use search filters for faster searches
Don't overlook the two search filters -- Apple Music and Your Library -- when searching for a song or album. Apple Music is the default option, but if you've built yourself a halfway decent music library, you can quickly zero in on your search target by choosing Your Library. (Excerpted from CNET)
Also, don't sleep on the Sort function when browsing the Albums or Songs views of your library. Tap Sort in the top right and to arrange Songs alphabetically by song title or artist name. Similarly, Albums can be sorted by album title or artist name.
Play Next vs. Play Later
When you call up the background menu for a song, you should know
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Google Maps adds the How to disable sound for International Space Station Facebook videos
he International Space Station has become the first "off planet" addition to Google Maps' Street View facility. Astronauts helped capture 360-degree panoramas of the insides of the ISS modules, as well as views down to the Earth below. Some of the photography features pop-up text descriptions, marking the first time such annotations have appeared on the Maps platform. This is not the first time 360-degree imagery has been captured beyond Earth.
Street View allows users to move around 17 different areas in the space station
In 2015, the European Space Agency published its own interactive tour of the ISS. And last year Nasa re-
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purposed images captured by its Pathfinder mission to Mars to create clips suitable for virtual reality headsets. However, one of the benefits of Google's technology is that it should give members of the public an improved sense of freedom of movement and a greater choice of viewpoints than had been possible before. The tech giant said it hoped to inspire the public to further explore the science and engineering involved in space exploration. "Every [ISS] component had to be flown on a space shuttle or rocket and constructed and connected in space, and it had to be done with such precision that it formed a hermetic environment to support life," project manager Alice Liu told the BBC. "That is an engineering marvel that people should care about and know about." (BBC)
acebook announced this year that it was making changes to the way videos work on its service, particularly for mobile devices. The company said in one of its blogs that mobile users “had come to expect sound when the volume on their device is turned on” and that it heard positive feedback about the audible autoplay behaviour. The sound of the videos fades in and fades out as you scroll through your News Feed, and the videos are not supposed to be audible at all if you have the main volume level on
your phone set to silent. However, if you prefer to keep your phone’s volume set to a normal level and do not want Facebook videos blaring in public when you browse your news feed, you can disable the function in the app’s settings.
Android
In the Android version of the Facebook app, tap the three-lined menu button in the toolbar and scroll down to App Settings. Next to “Videos in News Feed Start With Sound,” tap the button to the Off position. If you do not want videos in your feed to play automatical-
ly at all, tap Autoplay toward the bottom of the list and tap “Never Autoplay Videos” on the next screen before leaving the Settings area.
iOS
In the iOS version of the Facebook app, tap the three-lined menu icon in the corner of the screen and choose Settings. Select Account Settings and then Sounds. Turn off the button next to “Videos in News Feed Start With Sound.” You can find the preferences for autoplay videos in the Videos and Photos section of the main Settings screen.