Chance Miller, writing for 9to5mac digs into Apple Music. Good review, from someone who obviously loves both Apple and music.

The For You tab is arguably the most useful in the app on iOS and the desktop. When you first launch Music in iOS 8.4, you’ll be presented with an interface that allows you to choose your favorite genres then your favorite artists within those genres. Apple will then use that data to customize the For You tab with suggestions as to what it believes you would enjoy. The tab gets more accurate the more you use the Music app and tap the “heart” option on radio and streaming content. The For You tab also takes into account what you listen to and what you already have in your music library.

I’ve found that the curation aspect of Apple Music is unrivaled by any other streaming music service. Spotify would often try to tell me what artists and songs it thought I should listen to, but often to little or no avail. With Apple Music, however, I’ve already discovered several new artists worth listening to, as well as several playlists that are great from start to finish.

Amen.

One major playlist feature that is missing from Apple Music, however, is collaboration. You can’t start a playlist and invite other users to add content to it. Only one user or source can have master control over the content. It’s a feature that rival services like Spotify offer, …so it’s disappointing that Apple neglected to include it, but it’s nothing that can’t be added at a future date.

Agreed. I’d also like to see a more sophisticated For You interface. As is, when I click on the For You tab, all I see is the tip of a very large iceberg. I’d love an interface that allowed me to winnow the list, perhaps by genre, perhaps by era, etc. My musical tastes run wide. Some days I’m in the mood for jazz, other days electronic, r&b, soul, or driving metal.

As large as it is, the iPhone 6 screen still offers limited real estate. I’d love an interface that respected that. How about an option that presented all my For You options in a tight scrolling list, then let me filter that list by genre/date/etc., select any number of matches, then randomly shuffle them together. Maybe let me fold in the top 20 from the New list to keep things fresh.

In other words, a smart, extensible playlist, that lets me intelligently include everything I can touch with Apple Music.

All this said, it’s important to keep in mind that Apple Music is truly a 1.0 product. I can only imagine that Apple Music 5.0 will be a far different/better product than this version. For a 1.0 product, Apple Music is an amazing achievement.