No mention of the streaming quality means they could gives 2 ***** about music.
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Apple Announces 'Apple Music' With 'Beats 1' Live Radio Station, Launches June 30 for $9.99/Month
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I was referring to streaming music industry in general. It is a flawed and unsustainable ecosystem for artists.
A spotify revenue for artists goes like this: 70/30 where 70 goes to the record label, 30 to Spotify. Record label takes another huge cut (~30-40%) before it goes to the artist. With a platform like this, artists can in theory be their own record label and take a larger cut. Don't know if it will happen, but I have hope after seeing Eddy Cue introducing an "unsigned" artist on Connect.
We are still talking pennies here for unknown artists. What is interesting for me the most is the sharing feature, of which artists can cross germinate and be discovered. Or at the very least, share their own creation at a bigger, music-oriented platform.
If Apple gets rid of iTunes Radio for iTunes Match customers who pay for it so they do not have to deal with Ads (sadly we would like unlimited skipping) is really going to piss off many people. If Steve Jobs was still around he would never let music labels control Apple services.
If it's identical to Match, who'd pay £20 when they can pay £10 for the same service? I'm going to guess that Apple Music, if you delete your local copy in iTunes of the uploaded file, will give you full access to your uploaded stuff as long as you pay but will DRM it again somehow so if you stop paying you can't listen. Just a wild guess, but no way Apple would offer two services that gave the same benefit at such different price points.
How do I loan music to someone? Give them my AppleID? Same with selling.
Same thing with the death you speak of. Better get your lawyer to put your AppleID in your will so your kids can download your music.
We have no idea if owned digital music will play forever. Only as long as you have a working copy of iTunes and can see the files I guess.
Your argument is wrong.
Well, again no price indications over here as for now. According to Apple's homepage it will be available though but without any timeline mentioned. SomI guess negociations aren't done yet.
I hope the iTunes Radio disaster won't repeat...
I hope the iTunes Radio disaster won't repeat...
i don't think you understand what Apple Music does...
this service does what iTunes Match did, AND gives you unlimited access to the entire Apple Music Library -- so it's like iTunes Match and Spotify got together and had a lovechild with a radio station and artist connect feature nobody's going to use.
On Apple's website! http://www.apple.com/music/discover/
So will Apple Music Membership (it's all on the website)
That family pricing is pretty incredible. 14.99 for 6 people. That would cost $40 with Spotify since the only offer up to a 5 person plan for $30 so plus another person in a normal account would be $40. If Spotify matches they will be even less profitable. If they don't another reason why people will flee.
Would be nice if they offer a 'pretty' interface for migrating your playlists from Spotify to iTunes but that will probably be left up to third parties.
Would be nice if they offer a 'pretty' interface for migrating your playlists from Spotify to iTunes but that will probably be left up to third parties.
I am confused.
With Spotify Premium I can search for, say "Bruce Springsteen". The search will come back with most or all of his albums. I can pick and choose which of the albums to listen to. It's wonderful.
Will Apple Music work this way?
With Spotify Premium I can search for, say "Bruce Springsteen". The search will come back with most or all of his albums. I can pick and choose which of the albums to listen to. It's wonderful.
Will Apple Music work this way?
The hate for this on here is pretty bizarre to me... as someone who listens to a lot of music, this already seems far better than Spotify, and it integrates my local library in a way that actually makes sense. Sign me up.
Except they will still offer iTunes Match for the same price it always was, they even link to it from the Apple Music description page. Again, there HAS to be a difference between the two and all I can come up with is not being able to access your uploaded stuff if you stop paying for Music, even if you're be re downloaded it to your machine. But time will tell. Not even a release date,for it on the UK page yet, so it might never come anyway.
It says 'tens of millions of tracks in the apple music library' so yea it may not be every song, but it's most. Tens of millions is quite a few
If all you want is iTunes Match functionality, you can pay for that and get just that. If you want iTunes Match functionality and streaming of stuff you don't own, get an Apple Music membership
for a mere "25 cents a day", you get to play ANY song as many times as you want that is on iTunes. Period!
That's how you sell it.
That's how you sell it.
It wasn't so much that it's a non-English term, it's more of an in-joke. You have to be an outside (!) person to know that El Capitan is a location inside Yosemite. The naming convention was supposed to be immediately recognizable. It's like saying we're going to name our OS after great meals - cheese pizza, cheese burger, mac and cheese, and the newest is "sesame seed".Although the OS name is awful I always have found amusing English native speakers saying Spanish phrases/words. But hey, that just me.
The name really came across as a big joke. I was waiting for Tim or Craig to call out "You've been Pranked!"
The $9.99/month includes everything iTunes Match does... your whole library is on the cloud.
If the tracks are included in Apples library of tens of millions then yes
They didn't explain it very well, but this is essentially their Spotify. You can listen to anything in their catalog.