Como comentamos mais cedo, o dia de hoje marca o 25º aniversário do iPod original — e, para comemorar essa data tão especial, a Apple incluiu nada menos que um emulador surpreendentemente completo do seu clássico reprodutor de mídia na página de erro 404 do Apple Music.
Ornado com uma moldura do primeiro iPod, uma tela monocromática e uma scroll wheel funcional, ele traz uma série de músicas que marcaram a vida do saudoso dispositivo da Maçã.
No menu “Playlists”, por exemplo, há listas de reprodução voltadas aos mais diversos gêneros, com destaque especial para 2001 — o ano de lançamento do primeiro iPod. As abas “Artistas” e “Músicas” também estão populadas com dezenas de artistas e canções, servindo como uma verdadeira cápsula do tempo.
É possível até mesmo jogar o clássico game Breakout, que pode ser acessado em Ajuste » Sobre e segurando o botão central por alguns segundos.
Captura de tela/Apple Music
Se as informações da tela “Sobre” estiverem corretas, esse iPod virtual está rodando a versão 2644.1.0 do seu sistema operacional e está carregado com 1.029 músicas. Nenhuma dessas canções, no entanto, é uma versão completa: todas têm apenas cerca de um minuto e meio.
Para conferir a novidade, basta acessar essa página. Não está claro por quanto tempo esse emulador ficará de pé, então aproveite para dar aquela brincada enquanto pode!
Muito bacana, não? 😃
O Apple Music conta com um catálogo de mais de 100 milhões de músicas e 30 mil playlists — muitas delas com suporte a Áudio Espacial (Dolby Atmos) e em altíssima definição, com áudio Lossless. Para quem ama música clássica, há um app dedicado com mais de 5 milhões de faixas, tudo em uma interface simplificada! No Brasil, são três tipos de assinatura: Universitária (R$12,90/mês), Individual (R$23,90/mês) e Familiar (R$40,90/mês). Caso você não seja um assinante, pode testar o serviço de forma gratuita por um mês. Ele também faz parte do pacote de assinaturas da empresa, o Apple One.
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Apple Music unveiled a new brand identity on October 21, combining a revised wordmark, a sonic signature, and moving visuals shaped through physical experiments with sound. The project brings together Apple Music and TBWA\Media Arts Lab, with an original composition by British producer Fred again.. and NEST Acoustics providing the musical foundation.
The concept is described as “made by sound.” Rather than treating music as a soundtrack added after the visuals were finished, the creative process used audio to generate movement that could be filmed and incorporated into the identity.
The reveal explains how Apple Music intends to connect its visual and audio branding across different settings. The wordmark, musical-note symbol, filmed sequences, and short composition each contribute to that identity, while the rollout determines where audiences will encounter them.
Sound Becomes Part of the Image
According to Wallpaper’s account of the project, the team played musical notes through a transducer, which converts audio signals into physical vibrations. Those vibrations moved a shallow bath of mineral oil, producing ripples and shifting refractions.
The resulting patterns were captured on camera and became material for the visual design. Fred again.. and NEST Acoustics also developed a short composition that serves as the identity’s sonic signature.
The experimentation also influenced the composition. Fast Company reports that too many notes, or notes pitched too high, created excessive movement and made the image difficult to read. Those tests helped establish constraints for the musicians as they developed the sonic signature.
The result came from adjusting sound and image together. The team could observe how a musical choice changed the liquid’s movement, then refine the composition with the visual response in mind.
A Heavier Wordmark Joins the Moving Visuals
The refresh also changes the service’s typography. Wallpaper describes a customized version of Apple’s SF Pro typeface, with bold, lowercase lettering accompanying the Apple symbol.
The musical-note icon is another component of the system. Together, the lettering, symbol, motion, and sound create several ways to identify Apple Music, depending on the setting.
Those distinctions help explain why a single screenshot cannot represent the whole project. An app icon must remain recognizable at a small size. A video sequence can use time, movement, lighting, and audio to establish a different impression.
The new identity therefore needs to be considered both as a collection of individual elements and as a coordinated presentation. Someone may prefer the animated treatment while responding differently to the static lettering; those reactions concern different parts of the same design.
Introducing a new identity for Apple Music, physically shaped by an original composition from @fredagainagain1 and NEST Acoustics. https://t.co/LFXLIfexPL
A companion film documents the work behind the identity. iClarified’s coverage describes a 78-second sequence moving between the practical setup and the finished visuals.
The team submerged acrylic versions of the musical-note symbol and wordmark in mineral oil. Fast Company reports that the oil was selected for its viscosity, helping create the appearance of glass rippling under sound. Filming the moving liquid and refracted light produced the distortions seen in the finished sequences.
The behind-the-scenes approach makes the production method visible. It gives viewers something specific to examine: the relationship between a musical composition, a physical response, and the image recorded by the camera.
It also provides a useful distinction between inspiration and execution. Saying that a design is inspired by music is broad. Showing sound physically influencing the material being filmed explains how that idea entered the finished work.
The Rollout Extends Beyond the App Icon
Fast Company’s reporting identifies Apple Music, TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Fred again.., and NEST Acoustics as collaborators. It says the identity will begin appearing across original content and event programming this week, with marketing, product, and other experiences following later.
That describes a staged introduction rather than a single moment when every Apple Music surface changes. Viewers may encounter the new presentation in promotional or editorial material before seeing it consistently elsewhere.
The announcement is about branding. It does not, by itself, establish changes to subscription plans, playback quality, recommendations, or the music catalog. Those product details require separate announcements.
Image Credit: Apple Inc.
A Musical Idea Gives the Refresh Its Focus
The strongest part of the project is the clear relationship between its subject and its method. A service built around listening has used a composition to influence its visual identity, giving the sound and moving image a shared origin.
How successfully the elements work across everyday settings will become clearer as the rollout progresses. For now, the reveal offers a concrete account of creative collaboration—and a reason to look beyond the icon when assessing Apple Music’s new appearance.
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Launched today, JustWatch TV offers some movies available for free with ads that aren’t free on any other streaming service, including Green Room (2015), Locke (2013), and Sing Sing (2023). Other free movies include Fiddlin’ (2018), Friday the 13th (1980), and Hotel Mumbai (2018). I could play movies available for free on JustWatch TV without creating an account.
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Plex, which made a name for itself by letting users share movies they own, is now helping sell movie theater tickets. The company is looking to monetize its content-discovery capabilities and expand its business beyond its media server software.
Plex partnered with Fandango, which has sold movie tickets since 2000, to drive ticket sales from people searching for movies to stream. Per the announcement:
Starting today, Plex users in the US will see a Fandango ticketing option on title pages for movies currently playing in theaters, allowing them to click through to Fandango to find showtimes and purchase tickets. The integration also enables direct attribution through Kochava, giving studios and advertisers greater visibility into how campaigns and audience engagement translate into ticket sales.
Fandango says it sells tickets for 31,000 movie theater screens in the US. The Plex deal allows it to leverage data from Plex’s streaming service (Plex claims users of the service “make more than 100 million streaming decisions each month”), including "ratings and cross-platform viewing" to gain “insight into audience intent," the announcement said.
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Anunciada há pouco pela fabricante do iPhone, ela abre mão de cores sólidas para apostar em efeitos visuais inspirados por ondas sonoras — e que lembram bastante a linguagem de design Liquid Glass.
Apresentando uma nova identidade para o Apple Music, fisicamente moldada por uma composição original de @fredagainagain1 e NEST Acoustics.
Por enquanto, a Apple divulgou apenas o novo logotipo do seu serviço de streaming, criado pela NEST Acoustics.
Para chegar ao resultado acima, eles colocaram o logo do Apple Music no fundo de um tanque preenchido com óleo mineral e o cobriram depois com uma placa transparente no formato de um ícone de app. O efeito de ondas sonoras, por sua vez, foi gerado por uma composição (criada pelo DJ e produtor musical Fred Again…), cuja frequência se moveu pelo tanque.
Foram criadas duas versões do logo: uma apenas com a nota dupla e outra com a wordmark. É possível que as vejamos em uso pelo Apple Music no início de vídeos promocionais e em produções como gravações de shows.
Como tem sido o costume, a Apple publicou um vídeo de bastidores que mostra como se deu o processo de criação desses logos:
A nova identidade visual do Apple Music deverá pintar para todos nas versões 27.2 dos sistemas da Maçã, cujo lançamento é esperado para a semana que vem.
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It likely won't take you long to reach the ending of Neagley on Prime Video — all eight episodes have been released on the streamer — and when you do, it's nothing short of dramatic.
In a nutshell, the Reacher spinoff is following two story strands simultaneously: the death of a young man that's linked to the Echo Canyon Farm cult, and the reasoning behind why Neagley (Maria Sten) has a lifelong fear of being touched and touching others.
We learn that the cult has a secret facility that is being used to test an illegal drug, called Tranqlara, on human subjects, which is all being funded by a Swedish billionaire known as Rawlings. Neagley and her team try to simultaneously avenge her friend's death in episode 1 and save the innocent followers from the effects of Tranqlara, though they're not overly successful.
What it does lead to, however, is the group blowing up the Echo Canyon Farm facility after the death of leader Lawrence (Damon Herriman), walking in the other direction as if they're in the iconic Reservoir Dogs scene.
It's my favorite moment in the entire series (it looks and feels so effortlessly cool), but according to Sten, none of it was filmed in the way that I thought it would be.
'It wasn't as impressive as what you see'
"I thought it was cool, but I could spoil things and say that there was no such explosion behind us as we walk away," Sten tells me. "There was actually a wind turbine. But we played the music that was going to be played and definitely got in the vibe.
Greyston Holt, who plays detective newcomer Hudson Riley, adds, "We knew what it would be. But in the moment, it certainly didn't look as impressive as what you see on screen."
For the first time in what feels like forever, I've been fooled by CGI. If you were to ask me whether the season finale explosion scene was real or digitally generated, I'd have firmly been in the former camp.
However, that doesn't mean everything we see in Neagley was CGI generated. "In the first episode there's a big truck that blows up, and that was a practical explosion. It's a matter of whether we can blow up the set of not," Sten laughs. "It's not always possible, but we always vouch for it."
If Neagley season 2 does get confirmed (come on, Amazon), I'm hoping for even bigger and better actions sequences. Sure, discovering more about Neagley's backstory has been incredibly satisfying, but clearly, nothing truly beats blowing stuff up.
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