Presumably you can still buy music too if you want.
That way if you stop subscribing you'll still have that 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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You know I really thought iTunes Radio was gonna be revamped to become a much better service. But all I see is Beats 1 station that's really new. So the same old computer-picked tracks by genre for me. All the repeats suck. You might find a new song/artist if you're lucky. As thin as Pandora's library is, its rare I get repeats. And I find many more new artists/songs there than iTunes Radio.
Apparently you don't know what you're talking about since you will NOT be able to play ANY song from the iTunes library. This why they called it the Apple Music library as it'll have a different library for streaming with way less songs than iTunes.
Way less songs? How do you know? Maybe its just a few artists they can't agree to terms with.
Roughly 30M tracks on Apple Music, Over 43M tracks in Itunes Store.
The notes on Apple.com say that as a subscriber to Apple Music all you music lives in iCloud. If you have a lot of tracks that aren't in Apple's library, does they count against your iCloud allotment?
Any changes to the 25,000 song limit for Match or how that works with Music? For trying to cater to all the ways you listen to music, they seem to be leaving those of us with sizable music collections to go our own way.
(55,292 songs in my library currently)
(55,292 songs in my library currently)
This is the most moronic thing I've read in a while, so thank you. If I'm wrong, then point me to the EXACT place is says that Apples entire iTunes catalog of music will be available to download for Apple Music subscribers.
Found an awesome thread, and this is assuming it'll be 320kbps, which it sounds like it might not be. But it gives you an idea. Hope you like math.
http://iaudiophile.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-2081.html
The average joe doesn't care about this yet. They get their info from outlets like Facebook and usa today. Average joe doesn't watch the wwdc keynote, read macrumors, or has even heard about Apple music.
They'll pay attention when the service is closer to launch. By that time, hopefully Apple will have examined the service to the Walt mossberg's of the world so that he/they can explain it to the average joes.
People under 50 don't listen to the Beatles? I'm 23 and have been listening to them since I was a kid. My dad wanted me to appreciate and enjoy good music.
You're not the only young person that likes The Beatles. Don't understand those kinds of comments.
It isn't moronic. More like confusion caused by the horrible job Apple did at explaining ... well ... anything at all ... at the keynote. Now I'm wondering just how much music will be available in Apple Music when it's released.
Overall, Apple Music looks awesome and might convince me to adopt streaming along with regular iTunes purchases. I haven't tried Spotify up to this point. The way I see it, it's Spotify combined with the search capability of YouTube along with some other features. Connect sort of reminds me of MySpace before it died.
Since I haven't really streamed or used iTunes Match, can someone explain how Apple Music is likely to handle our existing iTunes libraries? I'm not sure I want to pay for Apple Music and more iCloud storage.
Since I haven't really streamed or used iTunes Match, can someone explain how Apple Music is likely to handle our existing iTunes libraries? I'm not sure I want to pay for Apple Music and more iCloud storage.
What's weird is that I have 324 albums in my Amazon Prime Music collection (that does include the Autorip CDs I bought). But I have found a number of bands that I like now that I hadn't heard before...
But, I can't integrate those albums in with my iTunes library. So, I have to use 2 separate apps.
On the one hand, I pay for Amazon Prime for many reasons, so I don't feel as if I am playing for the Music. But on the other, I hate having to use 2 apps; however, that means I'll have to pay Apple another 10 bucks/month (in addition to the iTunes Match and iCloud drive "bills") that I am not paying to Amazon.
The desktop app (APM) crashes on my Macbook Pro so often, it's hard to use. iTunes, for me, has been rock solid.
The Beats 1 radio station does nothing for me. As a metal fan, I doubt that genre will get any play on Beats 1.
It is a dilemma, for sure. Especially due to the fact that I like to buy my music.... Subscription service is great as long as you continue to subscribe. My cd's will last forever and can be re-ripped if necessary.
But, I can't integrate those albums in with my iTunes library. So, I have to use 2 separate apps.
On the one hand, I pay for Amazon Prime for many reasons, so I don't feel as if I am playing for the Music. But on the other, I hate having to use 2 apps; however, that means I'll have to pay Apple another 10 bucks/month (in addition to the iTunes Match and iCloud drive "bills") that I am not paying to Amazon.
The desktop app (APM) crashes on my Macbook Pro so often, it's hard to use. iTunes, for me, has been rock solid.
The Beats 1 radio station does nothing for me. As a metal fan, I doubt that genre will get any play on Beats 1.
It is a dilemma, for sure. Especially due to the fact that I like to buy my music.... Subscription service is great as long as you continue to subscribe. My cd's will last forever and can be re-ripped if necessary.
He wanted you to listen to good music and yet still made you listen to the Beatles? Just kidding, but it proves a point. Music tastes are subjective, so what some people may find is acceptable 'missing' content from the Apple Music library when it launches I guess others will think is a travesty that needs fixing as soon as possible or the service is "dooooomed". Yes, you need all those "O's" to convey the level of doom.
(For the record, never been a Beatles fan at all but if others are that's not my business is it?)
Switch to Tmobile, audio streaming is free.Great.. so with family basically 15.00 a month, not to mention the AT&T overage charges for streaming music (Cause lets face it, you will stream when you are not at home on Wi-Fi - Most likely in car) so that means the 3GB plan will have to be increased. So assume another 10.00 or more per GB.. so have to go to a 10GB plan.. essentially that's like 20+ songs a month if you just buy them. Will try it, but will just pay the 1.29 per song... not broken.. don't fix it.
How are the Beatles not good? At the time I'm sure it was more tolerable to hear them coming from my room instead of the Backstreet Boys. I also like Queen and Led Zeppelin among others. Those were just the few CDs I chose out of the couple hundred my parents own. Such was life in the mid-90s/early 2000s.
I personally wouldn't say Apple Music is doooooomed if they don't have the Beatles. I ripped the CDs even before they were on the iTunes Store
I also own my fair share of Taylor Swift singles.
I think you missed the "just kidding" portion of his post. And music taste is subjective, like he was saying.
No, but it's close. 30 million songs, already more than Spotify, a few artist holdouts. But, lack of some artists is the biggest problem with Spotify at my house, so same = same.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-to-own-music-again-and-everyone-is-a-target
I'm in the exact same situation. My plan now is to just try the free months and see how I like it. I didn't get Prime for music in the first place and it's like a gravy deal. It is excellent though and you can get a lot of music. I've seen some say the Beatles aren't streaming but they are on Prime. I have one playlist with 50 Beatles songs.
