Roku drops the needle on Apple Music app

Roku people just obtained a further selection for actively playing music on their equipment, with Roku saying Monday that Apple Music is coming to the platform.

The Apple Audio app will be out there for obtain beginning nowadays, and it will function on any latest Roku gadget, together with Roku’s streaming movie gamers (this sort of as the Roku Streaming Stick 4K), Roku TVs, and the Roku Streambar and Streambar Professional.

Present Apple Tunes subscribers can simply obtain the app to their Roku gadgets and then log in with their Apple credentials. If you’re new to Apple Songs, you can indicator up for a free one particular-thirty day period demo. Apple Tunes subscription ideas start at $9.99 for every month for individual people.

Apple Audio subscribers will have the operate of Apple’s catalog of additional than 90 million tracks on their Roku devices. That claimed, the Apple New music application for Roku does not guidance lossless or Dolby Atmos-run spatial audio playback, according to a Roku rep.

Apple Tunes joins a group of other streaming songs applications out there on Roku’s channel shop, which include Amazon Music, Spotify (which also delivers Spotify Connect help), Tidal, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Sirius XM.

Some notable tunes providers that are not obtainable on the Roku channel retail outlet are Deezer, Qobuz, and YouTube Tunes.

While the Apple Tunes app is only arriving nowadays on Roku products, Apple Music subscribers have extensive been in a position to stream their tunes on Roku players, TVs, and soundbars via AirPlay 2. That trick also functions for other music services that aren’t on Roku’s channel keep, including the aforementioned Deezer, Qobuz, and YouTube New music.

We just named Apple Songs as the best songs streaming services for most individuals many thanks to its “highly curated” songs internet pages, lossless streaming support, and availability in discounted bundles of Apple products and services, these as Apple Television set+, Apple Arcade, and Apple Fitness.

Current soon right after publication to note that the Apple Songs application for Roku does not aid lossless or spatial audio streaming.