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Best 100 albums, iOS 18 Music features, and more iPad Pro on the AppleInsider Podcast

Apple Music's Best 100 albums documentary on a MacBook Pro

How and why Apple Music chose its Best 100 albums, plus what's coming to the Music app in iOS 18, and getting into the details of the nano texture iPad Pro, in this week's AppleInsider podcast.

Just as certain as it is that Apple Music's Best 100 albums list would always be controversial, is the fact that it's going to introduce you to some great new music. But as people debate the list and wonder why Apple Music made the choices it did, they are missing the fact that Apple has told us everything — in detail.

Host Wes Hilliard has been enjoying the more than ten hours of video about the choices, and he's here to tell you what he's learned, and to enthuse about how only Apple would go to these lengths.

As well as looking at the past of music, though, this week it's time to look to the future of Music — and specifically the new features we've learned are planned for iOS 18. Plus now that users of the new iPad Pro and iPad Air have had time to try out their new hardware, there's the promise, and possibly the wishful thinking, of what iPadOS 18 will bring us next.

BONUS: Subscribe via Patreon or Apple Podcasts to hear AppleInsider+, the extended edition which this time looks at the promise and the problems of digital media, and how at least it means we can stop buying the same albums on new formats.

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