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Access to Past Beats 1 Radio Shows Now Limited to Apple Music Subscribers
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So, a) you say you have "heard", b) you say even for "$10 billion" you would not listen to Beats 1.
How do you know it's a crap service if you've only "heard" that it's crap?
I've never used it either. As a professional musician/composer/songwriter I hate the idea of streaming services and refuse to support them.
IMO, that is going too far. This is a factual recall question; Siri should at least be able to tell the name of the song.
Yes. Because if you don't like it, it must be stupid.
Until I read your post, I thought I quite liked it.
But now I realise I was just being stupid so I guess I owe you one.
Sorry, this post is a bit childish. But hey - you reap what you sow.
Oh for goodness sake - when this first came up it took about one minute to come up with stats showing this wasn't the case.
Mind you, sometimes people think that if they say it often enough, or read it often enough, it must magically become true.
Its not $10 to listen to past Beats 1 shows - its $10 for the whole thing.
Call me crazy, but $10 a month for access to all the music I want rather than buying or downloading alums is a no brainer.
And yes - I'm one of the people who listened again via iTunes, so am missing that feature currently.
If its showing in the iOS version, it'll hopefully appear in iTunes before long.
And despite this stats Beats 1 plays hiphop each time I check in…
So either the stats are wrong, or you're just unlucky.
Maybe you always listen at the same time, when the same show is on.
I suppose you could just randomly listen for five minutes all the time, or you could, I dunno, just an idea, have a bit of a look at particular shows and see what sort of stuff gets played on them.
As far as I can tell, Ebro's show is most likely to be mostly hip hop. maybe Julie's show, although that's probably more grime stuff. Zane's is a complete mixed bag. Shows like the Alligator Hour, The Mixtape and most of the guest shows most definitely are not mostly hip hop.
Nope. There is me. Just haven't felt motivated being satisfied with the free version of Spotify plus having Amazon Prime if I'm in a streaming mood. Usually I just play music from my own collection. If the free trial goes away (it would be suicidal) then it goes away. I'm just that "meh" about paying for streaming services.
I am the one who has no plan to use that three months trial. I find Apple Music brings no value for me. No. I would really like to spend 5 bucks to buy newly released album from μ's, but I would not want to listen to their music through Apple Music.
I do have found a few good songs through Beats 1 though.No, there's at least two of us.
Not interested in renting music and I'm not part of the target audience of Beats 1.
I agree.
I will rush to buy new albums released in iTunes Store but not rent them.
Someone says "we don't need to own music. We just grab it and here it is". No thank you.
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You realize that you never own music, even when you "buy" it? You're buying a license to use it that they can take away at any time.
I don't think they are going to come round our homes and wipe our hard drives and confiscate our CDs. Rented music can be taken away though.
I will gladly take the $10 billion to listen to a OK radio station, the coffee i can't drink
I see nothing wrong with this. You get Beats 1 for free but if you want premium features, you have to be a member.
Amen. BH1 was horrible and I stopped listening. I imagine it's still horrible but the music was just bad. Guess I'm not the target demo though.
I was going to ask if anyone actually listens to Beats 1 or not but doesn't really seem like it.
I stayed up a night to listen to its first minute, and it was good.
Then, i just forget about it.
Renting license is way easier to be taken away than purchase licence. And renting licence has time limits while purchase license can somewhat retain indefinitely.
I was pretty sure purchased iTunes music was DRM free. I can buy it then turn around and load it on my friends Android with out issue, not that I would ever do that.