Didn't think there was 2 separate things AM/iTunes Store. Keen to know where this data came from? I'm curious to find out if this is actually the case. I was assuming it was any and every song Apple had.
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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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For the record, I personally do not believe this is correct, but you asked so here goes...
https://www.beatsmusic.com/faq
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The over 43M songs available on itunes is stated on Apple's website. The over 30M songs is what they stated in their press release for Apple Music, which is pretty much the same size at Spotify's library.
Considering the confusion by many over what exactly this is and how it fits in with the rest of Apple's offering one would think this announcement was made by Microsoft, not Apple.
That's absolutely fine with me. It just gets pretty old seeing kneejerk Apple-bashing on an Apple forum, and bashing that isn't even well-informed.
If you won't pay $10 for this then it's clearly not aimed at you. It's literally the same exact price as every other competing service's premium level. In fact, Apple wanted to price it at 7.99 to undercut the competition but there was too much pushback from the record companies.
Ahh, thanks. Wondering where they came from.
I wonder which labels/indie artists make up the 13million that aren't a part of that.
I still plan on purchasing music, but I love the fact I can now use the majority of all Apple's music and stream it. Casting a wider net to listen to things I've never heard before, and then buying it one album at a time.
Hey there,
do you know if it's going to be possible to sync the tracks that I download for offline use to my iPod Classic? Yeah, I'm still one of those dinosaurs using an iPod classic, and the "listen to your music offline" feature would only make sense for me if it allowed me to actually put these songs on my 160GB iPod classic.
do you know if it's going to be possible to sync the tracks that I download for offline use to my iPod Classic? Yeah, I'm still one of those dinosaurs using an iPod classic, and the "listen to your music offline" feature would only make sense for me if it allowed me to actually put these songs on my 160GB iPod classic.
If you think you'll be streaming The Beatles, if you don't actually own the music, think again.
The Beatles still sell 1 million albums a year, some one is still buying them, and it's not your gram pa!
What songs do you have in your playlist? I'm guessing semi/legal titles? There is no legal streaming contract for The Beatles with any service, nor for George Harrison.
Yeah, I think the presentation missed big time when it came to focusing on what was really important.
- Way too much time talking about the new radio service (which, to most people, is 'just another radio station - why should I pay for that?')
- Too vague when it comes to how much of the iTunes library one gets access to.
- Way too little focus on the benefits of streaming. Lots of people - even here on this forum (where, admittedly, quite a few are so cozy within the walled Apple garden that they barely know what is happening in technology on the outside) - obviously has no concept about what streaming really is and that things like local caching of files is an important factor so you do not have to run up your cell phone bill every time you listen to one of your favorite tracks.
- The focus on manually curated playlists seemed a bit off - this is nothing new at all. Other services already do this very well (Spotify on a large scale) as a supplement to more automatic solutions like 'artist radio', 'playlist radio', 'genre radio', 'mood radio', 'time of the day-radio' and so on.
Not announced. But given that it appears Apple Music duplicates the iTunes Match feature, you likely won't pay that $25/year for iTunes Match since you won't need it. But people who don't do Apple Music can still use it.
That's the best guess.
I only pay like $3/mo for Xm radio for Internet. No reason why I would pay $9.99 for apple or $7 for pandora.
Agreed on Pandora, but there are lots of reasons Spotify and Apple Music will be better than SiriusXM.
OH!, so there are three minutes worth of ads for every 10 minutes broadcast on Apple Music? Just like the car radio? Or are the ads gone, along with that $10 bill?
Even ON the computer spotify is crappy, because the interface is awful and frustrating.
Reading over at Macworld that Apple Music will stream at 256kbs is less that what I expect. Today I compared Spotify, iHeartRadio, and iTunes Radio and the worst was iTunes radio. Listening on my headphones it had the least pleasant sound stage, less balance, and weak mid-bass. Not sure I'm gonna subscribe. Trial will tell.