9 things you should try first with Apple Music (pictures)

Apple's streamingmusic service has arrived, and is available with a three-month free trial. It's currently available for iPhones or iPads running the latest version of iOS, or PCs and Macs with the latest version of iTunes.

Whenyou fire up Apple Music, head over to the accounts section by clicking thesilhouette in the top left corner of the screen, and choose "Artists forYou." You'll be greeted with a series of bubbles that'll ask you whatyou're into.

Tap a bubble to express interest, double-tap the ones you'rereally into, and press and hold a bubble to remove that genre completely. Then,you'll pick a few artists to highlight. Don't worry if you change your mindlater -- you can always duck back into your account settings and change thingslater.

TheFor You section is likely the first thing you'll see when you open the AppleMusic app. It's a list of things Apple Music thinks you might be interested in,based on the artists and genres you've selected. It's an easy way to discoverthings that may have otherwise escaped you entirely.

You'llautomatically follow some of the artists you selected as your favorites, buttap on the Connect tab to choose a few more. With Connect, you'll get aFacebook-esque stream of content from the artists or feeds you're listening to.This will range from photos or videos or the occasional short quip, so you cansee what your favorites are up to.

AppleMusic is all about streaming, but your own tunes will be right where you leftthem. Tap the "My Music" icon on the bottom right to access yourlibrary. All of the songs you've owned will still be here, and any new tracksyou add from the streaming service will show up here, too.

Apple Music isprimarily a streaming service, but you will eventually find yourself on a trainor a plane, and far from Internet service. Just tap the ellipses to get more options on a particular song, album orplaylist, and hit "Make availableoffline."

If you've got a songthat you like and want to hear more like it, you can easily create a radiostation to hear more songs like it. When you're listening to a track, just tap the ellipses in the bottom rightcorner of the screen to get more options, and click "Start Radio."Apple Music will then start queing up tracks the service thinks you mightlike.

Apple Music hasplenty of curated playlists ready for your listening pleasure. If you've founda playlist you like, just hit the little "plus" icon to add it toyour music library, so you can revisit it later.

Ifyou're a fan of the traditional, DJ-driven radio experience, pop over to Beats1. It's a station that's playing 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and willfeature new tracks, interviews with artists and music stations hosted bycelebrities and the like.

With the launch ofApple Music, Siri has learned a few new tricks, too. You can now make requests,which can be as simple as asking Siri to add the latest album from an artistyou like, to playing the best songs from the year you were born.