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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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...or pay $60 a month for a cell phone plan. Or $1100 a month for an apartment.
10 bucks a month is a drop in the bucket for most adults that earn their own money. People tend to focus a lot on the small expenses and totally forget about the really big ones like a house or a car.
Heck, I could pay for 100 Apple Music or Spotify subscriptions every single month year round and it would still amount to less than what I have pay just to have an apartment. Is less than 1/100th of my fixed monthly expenses worth it to get access to 30 million songs? Oh yes.
So before I read all the comments on these stories coming out of today, I was a little worried that I was alone in thinking today's keynote was a little... "Meh". It just seemed bland and hurried to me. Don't get me wrong I like the new iPad multitasking and the music service feels like it's just going to kill every other service available right now, but every other announcement was accompanied by whomever was onstage saying "and just like last year we're doing x, but on [new device]" and "just like last year we're doing y, but on [new device]". A little disappointing; no new hardware AND rather uninteresting software. :/
Exactly. Drake, Pharrell, Trent Reznor, etc. That's marketing at full throttle.
Spotify is going to be hard to beat, especially since my favorite thing about Spotify is that I can be listening on my PC, leave the room and head to my PS4 and pick up where I left off. Then head to the bedroom and play another song on my iPhone, and once again pick it back up on my iMac. And this is all completely seamless.
And no mention of offline caching? What a garbage presentation.
According to the Apple Music web page, yes you can play anything on demand and even save it for offline playing.
I'm happy using iTunes itself. As I listen new songs, watch clips of movies etc. online first and then buy through iTunes (or physical copies) if I like. I do not want to subscribe to a service, I'd rather continue to pay the band, film studio, Apple to buy a product rather than stream. There are months where I do not buy anything and months where I binge (like now.)
I guess this proves I am content in letting some technology move past me.
I guess this proves I am content in letting some technology move past me.
No, Radio is just one component of Apple Music. You can stream any song available in iTunes.
Unfortunately, this is false. Not ANY song. Just a very big chunk of them. Apple never once mentioned you'd be able to stream any song you could find on iTunes.
No, according to the Apple Music web page the two services are separate and "complementary".
I don't expect I'll switch from Spotify, but I feel like the pricing is where it should be. It's very competitive with Spotify. My guess is the catalogs will be slightly different but overall about the same size. Apple Music has a couple of minor bells and whistles. Spotify has some other advantages, like it's overall compatibility with devices and integrations. Otherwise they seem comparable, so $10/mnth seems reasonable.
If they don't provide a web interface for non-iOS users then it would be a tragedy.
Macrumors confirmed that users will be able to save songs and playlists locally. It's on the front page as I write this.
Eddy Cue said "millions and millions of songs"... Good god how many do you need??
She was shown during the keynote. Not presented, but shown in the the top artist list. Spotify definitely took notice to that since they lost Taylor Swift.
Reading through the FAQs it says, "unlimited listening from the Apple Music library", which I thought they were re-branding the music part of iTunes as Apple Music. I think it would be a fair assumption to believe it would be pretty much whatever is on iTunes (Apple Music), but I guess we'll all find out during our free trial. It would be pretty lame otherwise.
You can play any song from the iTunes library. He has no idea what he's talking about.
Just point us to where it says iTunes is being rebranded to Apple Music. Otherwise I think it's safe to say these are two separate libraries. This is logical because: a) it's widely understood that many artists are not on board with streaming, b) Apple would be the first to explicitly state that this new offering includes the entire iTunes library, and they haven't.
A lot of people here seem confused by the Apple Music portion of the keynote. What I took away from it was there are three distinct components: On-demand streaming from the Apple Music library, live Beats 1 radio, and Connect.
Wait, what? Sorry for being dense, but are you saying that if I get iTunes match, apple uploads my whole catalog of songs (the ones bought through iTunes and the ones bought on Amazon or pirated) and it will give me the 256Kbps version of those songs it finds in their library? And if I cancel iTunes match, the 256Kbps versions will be mine to keep? What am I missing here? Thanks in advance.