I think I've bought two songs since the New Apple Music Way showed up. I used to go through the free offerings, maybe go and listen to the previews for one or two albums that went with the free songs, and maybe buy two or three of those every couple of weeks. Sometimes a whole album. Now?...nada. I only go looking for music if I hear something that someone else has and I think sounds good.
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Access to Past Beats 1 Radio Shows Now Limited to Apple Music Subscribers
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Me too. Renting is fine until they start taking things away...oh wait!...that's what started this whole thread, isn't it? It's even worse with video. NO ONE will EVER be able to tell me I can't watch "Lo-cal Munster" (S1E6) of The Munsters, because I own all of the DVDs and have them all ripped to my 4TB 2012 Mac mini. When senility sets in I'm going to have a great time! Addams Family, I Dream Of Jeanie, Gilligan's Island, Dexter, The Big Bang Theory, The Twilight Zone, Game Of Thrones... I like it, I got it, for good.
The DJs that Apple has hired aren't schmucks. They are very knowledgeable about music and seem to really enjoy talking about it. It's worth a listen.
The original apple radio was like spotify/pandora. Stations based on artists (playing tracks from similar artists) or genres.
There was the occasional ad, but there was no talking whatsoever. It was pretty crappy and very repetitive, but it wasn't 'radio'.
Well, some hip-hop fanatics might subscribe just now...
Exactly - that's a big part f the appeal of radio. I don't understand people saying they want radio without any talking. That's not radio - that's called 'listening to your CDs'.
Anyway, the show replays have turned up in iTunes now, so all good.
"Ownership" of music is a complicated thing, it's typically some combination of songwriter-performer-record label. What you own when you buy music is a copy of the performance. Does that satisfy your pedantry?
It is weird. People keep saying that Beats 1 plays mostly hiphop, and there was even a chart that showed that hiphop was favored more. In all seriousness, most of the time I randomly tune in, it is anything other than hiphop playing. I did manage to catch the Fugees album play through a week or so ago.
Apple Music stop greying out Songs and DJ Mixes start paying the artist Apple stop acting like you have no money.
So I assume you don't have a hard drive of illegally downloaded music then right? You purchase legally everything you want? Cos you like to own it.
I'm pretty sure most people in this thread have no idea what Hip Hop is and might just label anything that isn't the Rock music they grew up with as "Hip Hop". I've mostly heard Beats 1 play electronic music and to be honest being able to hear a techno track at 1pm in the afternoon on a Monday on a mainstream radio station was fantastic. Its far far more music centric and diverse than any other mainstream radio station. They've done a great job.
After installing the recent update it was a bit annoying to see Apple displaying their Beats service when I fired up the music app. I hope we don't get this after every update. Worse still is you have to wait for the image+text to fade in too. It's not much but it cheapens the service a bit.
I guess subscriptions aren't doing so well for them to include more features on the other side of the paywall.
I guess subscriptions aren't doing so well for them to include more features on the other side of the paywall.
Apple Music is such a mess that I have no interest on even opening the app to listen to beats.
Spotify is a million times better.
I used it for about 2-3 weeks. Then cancelled my trial and subscription to avoid getting charged.
Spotify is a million times better.
I used it for about 2-3 weeks. Then cancelled my trial and subscription to avoid getting charged.
I don't care how knowledgable they are. If I want to hear someone talk about music I will find a podcast for that very purpose. I want music, that's it nothing more.