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Apple Music is Apple's streaming service, but you can use it on a huge variety of equipment, not just iDevices and MacBooks.

I made a subscription to Apple Music about a year ago, in the same week that Spotify came to Romania. At 20 lei a month, the price is surprisingly affordable and if you activate your family plan, as I did, it costs you 29.9 lei for a maximum of six people with different Apple IDs. The only condition is to include them in your virtual family.

 

However, going beyond the reasons why it would have been recommended to subscribe to Apple Music, there is a very important one you can bypass it, especially if you are a Windows user. On PC or Mac, Apple Music works only through iTunes. On macOS, the application is more than decent. On Windows, iTunes is the perfect example of a slow, slow application that consumes a lot of hardware resources.

 

If you've already subscribed to Apple Music and want to enjoy the experience without iTunes, for some time, there has been an alternative solution. It's not an official solution, but from my experiments it worked very well.

 

Through the PlayAppleMusic.com website, you can access the entire Apple Music database, provided you log in with the username and password of your account. Once you have done this, you will immediately have access to your personal rendering lists, your entire bookstore of artists or albums, and last but not least, your favorite music.

 

It is not very clear how legal this platform is, and if Apple would initiate a process it might win. On the other hand, as long as Tim Cook's giant does not offer you a solution to access Apple Music without iTunes, this is a surprisingly reliable alternative.