Apple Adds New 'Music Videos' Section to Apple Music Ahead of iOS 11.3 Release

mikecorp said:
Netflix is better value together with Spotify. I did try Apple music, but it is just not good enough.
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there are better values than Apple serves in their store. Spotify is 4.99,- Netflix 10,- iPads are cheap, they have promotion all the time. iPad for 199,- When you buy 6 month subscription for local newspaper. We have all this deals and nobody really cares about it. It is just a tool and hardware. I see problem in Software. iOS is buggy, OSX sucky, Apple music is Meh. I believe you should use streaming, but it should just work and yet in apple OS nothing works.
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Can you share what you were smoking when you wrote that rant?
 
Godzilla71 said:
I also like the music video aspect. I was just browsing this on Apple TV and they have video playlists. I was checking out one of the classic hard rock ones and it was a pretty decent mix. It will be cool to sit and watch these like as if I was watching MTV growing up before they went to crap. I hope you can make customized video playlists like you can with music that would be great.
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Yeah, I'll put the Cure videos in there, plus Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, A-Ha's Take on me (like the video, song... well, it gets a bit whiny after a while), and, of course, "Video killed the radio star" (gotta play that one first).

Then, I'll go to the metal ones. The funny thing about 80's retro stations is they do a few things:
1. Play "Shout" over and over and over and over and over and ....
2. Play bands that were never on the same station. I don't think I ever heard Van Halen and Depeche Mode on the same station in the 80's on KROQ.
3. Play the weird one-off's like "A night like this" from the Cure.

Anyhow... back to work...
 
Music videos are bigger now then they’ve ever been.


Smartass said:
Meh. Music videos were popular in the time of MTV, since that channel was more or less the only source for new music back then, which you could obviously listen to, other than radio. Music videos were just a bonus. It's nice that they've included them, but i really dont see anything special on it. They should add more functions in the app like overlaping music or something to make listening experience better.
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FightTheFuture said:
8.25/mo if you buy an annual subscription. If you can score one of those $100 iTunes/App Store gift cards for $85 deals, you’ll be paying around $7/mo. Totally worth it IMO.
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I think the Apple Music family was 15 euro,- i had it just for 6 months. Spotify family is 7,99. Netflix I pay 10.99 for HD. But in Netherlands you can get movies streaming service from any Internet provider to your TV, iPad ...etc for 4.99,- Music is great but Apple should work it better.
 
Ted13 said:
(YouTube) quality of music videos can differ vastly - some of it looks like a poor VCR copy.
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To be fair, some of it is a poor VCR copy ;) But the stuff from VEVO is consistently high quality and official.
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JeffyTheQuik said:
Someone should make a Cable channel with music videos on it.

I think someone tried it in 1981, and it apparently failed, as there aren't music videos on it anymore.
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Still have fond memories of (the old) MTV. It succumbed to reality TV and trying to get more viewer engagement by doing all sorts of things that weren't the core product. They wouldn't do as well today, because people have gotten used to being able to say, "I don't like this one, skip to the next", and that's... streaming music videos from a service like Apple Music or YouTube. Apple Music already has a lot of music videos, they just haven't been presented well if what you wanted was to watch music videos (as opposed to "oh, this artist/song also has a video" when drilling down).
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Steve121178 said:
Why would anyone need or want to watch music videos on their phones? All we need is higher quality audio options!
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1. You'd be surprised how many people will watch that way.
2. Apple TV is a thing.
 
My 3-month Spotify trial ends today so I'll probably start up an Apple Music subscription soon.

A shame I can't share it with my family without having my credit card tied to to everyone's purchases.
 
I hope music videos work on the apple TV. It would be great to play music videos at house parties.
 
mikecorp said:
iPads are cheap, they have promotion all the time. iPad for 199,- When you buy 6 month subscription for local newspaper. We have all this deals and nobody really cares about it. It is just a tool and hardware. I see problem in Software. iOS is buggy, OSX sucky, Apple music is Meh. I believe you should use streaming, but it should just work and yet in apple OS nothing works.
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I have yet to experience any real issues with iOS, OSX or Apple Music. Everything works very well together, which is why our family continues to buy Apple products. We have owned Android tablets before, and they were a mess and failed constantly. All the Apple stuff works 99% of the time. Every once in a while we get a minor hiccup, but in general we are VERY satisfied with Apple products.

Netflix is 10.99, and we do use it, but it's not worth 10.99. Hardly anything on there that we watch. Not very many good movies. HBO is a much better deal. Apple Music, we love the family deal. We get it for about $3 a person in our family. ($15/month subscription we pay for using 20% off Apple Music gift cards = $12/month. 4 people in our family = $3. I can't find a better deal.
 
Hopefully they kick up the the video quality. I've had to make playlists on Youtube and deal with commercials and videos randomly disappearing. If I'm home alone or out in the garage working on the bike's, I love having music videos going on in the background; along with my Brandy or Whiskey.
 
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