I would bet money that Apple does not have contracts yet to allow ALL the music sold in the iTunes Store to be streams. Hence the wording. My guess is that Apple Music Library does not equal iTunes Store Library.
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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 would bet money that Apple does not have contracts yet to allow ALL the music sold in the iTunes Store to be streams. Hence the wording. My guess is that Apple Music Library does not equal iTunes Store Library.
Yup, they're on Spotify too. In fact a huge marketing campaign the other year was part of it. Sort of an audience participation thing. "Play this Floyd song if you want to see all of Floyd on Spotify, if it gets a million plays by <date> their entire catalogue will be here."
If you can put songs for offline playback on a iPod nano this service is sold to me, I use the nano at the Gym / on jogs because of the perfect portability size.
I hate streaming music but the fact that I can buy iTunes music via my Android phone looks cool.
Wikipedia cites that iTunes Store "offers over 37 million songs ... as of September 12, 2012." Sounds like different libraries to me. By now, AM's library must fall short of iTunes' library by at least 10-15 million songs.
Yes, let's talk about Tool...they are not on any digital music service anywhere. If you want to listen to them on the go you still need to go and buy the physical album and rip it into iTunes. But then with Apple Music, you can get that into iCloud and integrated with the service seamlessly. Not too big a compromise really, if you are a fan.
Music is a complete and comprehensive package, looking like it covers every single feature all the other music services have, and with the largest music library available. At 3 months free, we will all get to put it through its paces thoroughly and make our own judgements on it. Good move by Apple there.So please to everyone who has a long list of, "can I do this or this" questions, gove it a good test for 3 months and all of your questions will be answered.
Good to know since Tidal is such a gimmick.
I am dying to find out the max available quality of Apple Music though!!?! I couldn't find anything mentioned in the keynote or official website at all ...
Naively hopeful I'd wish it's because they're still in talks to get lossless from the original analogue recordings and didn't want to say anything bout it yet until they're 100% sure it'll work across the board.
Apple Music is being superficially compared to Spotify, but it looks like Apple is going for a much bigger play. It's easy to laugh at Ping and their me-too iTunes Radio, but with Apple Music it sounds like they are using their billions to attempt no less than a takeover of the entire music industry.
I love all that Apple stuff. But was never a friend of their music business.
My wife and I use Spotify and for us the advantage is that we get Audio books and that it's included in my Telekom data plan.
So switching to Apple Music would be a big disadvantage.
My wife and I use Spotify and for us the advantage is that we get Audio books and that it's included in my Telekom data plan.
So switching to Apple Music would be a big disadvantage.
And iTunes Radio is not a streaming service?? I've never used it and actually completely forgot about it. Also what about iTunes internet radio? Will that still be around. Forgot it was still there also.
As well I'm hoping that this new iTunes Music will not lead to the demise of "traditional" iTunes Store purchasing. I still want to buy my music as we've always been able to. Either by song or album. But this new music streaming service would be a nice way to find music to buy.
How many countries will Apple Music be launching in?
Are the 100 countries part of the Apple Music launch or is that just for the 24/7 global radio service?
Are the 100 countries part of the Apple Music launch or is that just for the 24/7 global radio service?
I think they'll do just fine with this service given the size of the iTunes library, and the familiarity to it with millions of iPhone and Mac users. However I think the Beats radio service sounds terrible, and the amount of BS they were waffling on about when trying to sell it to people was unbelievable. Are they trying to tell me that they won't be beholden to the music studio's like every other radio station in the world?!
And honestly I couldn't care about all that other fluff from artists as some kind of value-add - I just want the music. I don't care about blogs. Or behind the scenes stuff.
And whilst I applaud the fact they're releasing an Android client, frankly they didn't have any choice. Yes iPhone & iPad's market share is substantial but so is the Android Phone / Tablet market share too - they'd have had to have been completely stupid or arrogant to think they could do without luring in the Android customer base to the service as well.
I will no doubt try it, but it's going to take something pretty special to lure me away from Spotify. Spotify was pretty revolutionary, the price has stayed the same, and the library has only gotten bigger - and it works on so many different devices. So no complaints from me and therefore no real desire to quit that service.
And honestly I couldn't care about all that other fluff from artists as some kind of value-add - I just want the music. I don't care about blogs. Or behind the scenes stuff.
And whilst I applaud the fact they're releasing an Android client, frankly they didn't have any choice. Yes iPhone & iPad's market share is substantial but so is the Android Phone / Tablet market share too - they'd have had to have been completely stupid or arrogant to think they could do without luring in the Android customer base to the service as well.
I will no doubt try it, but it's going to take something pretty special to lure me away from Spotify. Spotify was pretty revolutionary, the price has stayed the same, and the library has only gotten bigger - and it works on so many different devices. So no complaints from me and therefore no real desire to quit that service.
beats1 radio is a complete bull s***, apple could have skipped that, the way they presented is like - we know better what you like..
and that guy who questioned how does itunes know that he listens to spanish music is because he searched a lot for "el capitan" (the worst os name ever)..
worst wwdc ever
and that guy who questioned how does itunes know that he listens to spanish music is because he searched a lot for "el capitan" (the worst os name ever)..
worst wwdc ever
Simple. Don't sign up. This service isn't for YOU. Thanks!
But he wants it to be for him, so he is al
LOL its not how many HE needs. It is wether or not they have what he likes.
On the US Apple page it says it's available on the 30th June but on the UK page it says "coming soon", the French page says "bientôt" (soon) and the German page says "Kommt bald" (coming soon) so who knows?
How many countries will Apple Music be launching in?
Are the 100 countries part of the Apple Music launch or is that just for the 24/7 global radio service?
Thanks for the info. I am from India, so the 100 countries statement got me excited. But I guess that is only for the 24/7 global radio. So I am not holding my breath when it comes to Apple Music.
Are the 100 countries part of the Apple Music launch or is that just for the 24/7 global radio service?
Thanks for the info. I am from India, so the 100 countries statement got me excited. But I guess that is only for the 24/7 global radio. So I am not holding my breath when it comes to Apple Music.
Apple today announced Apple Music, an all-in-one app for discovering, listening to and sharing music. Apple Music is both a streaming music service and 24-hour live radio station, in addition to a platform for artists to share lyrics, backstage photos, videos or latest songs for fans to comment on and share through social media.....
Prefer to download my music and have a tangible copy thanks.
I'm a Beats Music subscriber and they pretty much have everything minus The Beatles, AC/DC, Tool, Garth Brooks, and Metallica. I would assume every song on Beats will be available. Not to mention all of the human curated playlists are really good (I've discovered tons of bands on them)
So what happens if you sign up for Apple Music and your personal library is bigger than 25,000 songs?
It looks a lot like Beats on steroids. I was so glad to see the top charts features because I feel lost in Beats without it. I'm used to the iTunes Store having a list of albums and singles that are new or popular at the moment.
I'm really excited about this because I'm already paying for Beats and this finally is a service that combines that with my iTunes library. I have a lot of stuff from CDs that isn't available from iTunes, so it's important to have it all combined. I bought some AC/DC albums before they got added to iTunes, so adding those songs to a Beats playlist was impossible. Now it looks like that will finally be possible.
I don't know whether I'll use the radio stuff much, but it might be really useful for my dad. He has a Sirius XM subscription, which I'm going to try to get him to ditch if the radio stations work well enough for him. He mostly listens to old stuff on there -- 50s on 5, 60s on 6, etc. -- so I'm assuming the radio portion will have something similar. I'm pretty sure that costs more than the extra $5/month it would be to have him and four other family members using the service. The only issue is his car came out a year before GM added Bluetooth connectivity for audio and not just phone service.
This service looks legit. I've subscribed to Spotify a couple of times in the past and eventually quit because it just didn't feel worth it because I felt lost. Beats is better, but lacked some features I mentioned. This thing looks like a home run, especially with videos finally coming in HD built into the damn app and not costing $1.99 for something they all throw on YouTube or Vevo for free. When this service hits Android, Spotify is going to get hit hard.