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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'm sure Spotify would have been significantly more expensive than Beats Music's slice of the Beats deal. Also don't forget Apple got Beats headphones with the deal, and the power of Jimmy Iovine and Dre. It actually made a lot of sense.
Anyways, I'm pretty excited about this. Videos and Siri combined with a streaming service is pretty nice. The presentation was a little awkward but I thought it was a little bit adorable that the music folks were kind of bad at public speaking.
I personally really dig it. Unimaginative for what it is, but a beautiful icon in itself. Would have been perfect for the Music App.Please tell me this is not the new logo:
Yes, please help me.
They happily announced the price but never told me what I get for it?
Pharell tweets?
Can I pick any song I want at any time?
Can I skip over stuff I don't like.
Is the entire iTunes library included?
Save your curated playlist for bullet points at the end and tell me what it really is.
Is iTunes Match going away?
$10 for Radio? I think Tidal just fell off their chairs laughing.
They happily announced the price but never told me what I get for it?
Pharell tweets?
Can I pick any song I want at any time?
Can I skip over stuff I don't like.
Is the entire iTunes library included?
Save your curated playlist for bullet points at the end and tell me what it really is.
Is iTunes Match going away?
$10 for Radio? I think Tidal just fell off their chairs laughing.
I'm confused. Is iTunes Radio still going to be free or are they charging for it now? If so, that sucks.
Also get that stupid 'Connect' out of my Music app. Jesus.
Also get that stupid 'Connect' out of my Music app. Jesus.
But do they have Taylor Swift? That's the only deal maker/breaker!
Can someone explain to me what the 'it' thing is for this? Why do we care? Do we even care?
Does the music app have Offline playlist mode?
What? Swift being open source is a huge announcement on its own. In addition tons of under the hood improvements for iOS and OS X. What were you expecting an apple branded house?
It's painful to watch the demise of Apple. I mean I know they'll go on and may even have a renaissance one day, but they are definitely losing importance with all of these lackluster attempts they've been passing as developments since Steve Jobs died, and the continual degradation of the software, and now even hardware (Mac Mini), under Tim Cook.
They needed a maverick to replace Jobs.
They needed a maverick to replace Jobs.
Does this work just like Spotify, where you can create playlist from their library and save it offline?
Edit: http://www.apple.com/music/discover/
Yes, Apple Music is a Spotify clone. You get unlimited access to the entire iTunes library, where you can select songs to "Add to your collection". So long as you keep paying, the music stays in your collection.
Not sure if you can directly add music to playlist, or if you have to save it to your collection before it can be added...
Edit: http://www.apple.com/music/discover/
Yes, Apple Music is a Spotify clone. You get unlimited access to the entire iTunes library, where you can select songs to "Add to your collection". So long as you keep paying, the music stays in your collection.
Not sure if you can directly add music to playlist, or if you have to save it to your collection before it can be added...
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I really grown to love Spotify, but I also love apple. I will give it a try. Pus, iTunes has more music than Spotify. It will be nice to listen to streaming music in the Apple ecosystem.
if you already pay for iTunes Match, why would u pay another $10 for this ? Or maybe this is targeted at "instead of"
I still say, content matters. Something with iTunes Match allows you to upload songs. So really, Match has an advantage here.
(hehe,, i can't believe i just said that)
I still say, content matters. Something with iTunes Match allows you to upload songs. So really, Match has an advantage here.
(hehe,, i can't believe i just said that)
Usual haters on presenters, like most people on this forum could present in front of a worldwide audience with calm and poise a massive project that you worked on for years.
Anyway, Apple figured out that the most effective system of music discovery besides one's friends is radio and implemented tastemaker DJ's to serve up music with the human personality and touch that's worked since the 50's in promoting artists.
Anyway, Apple figured out that the most effective system of music discovery besides one's friends is radio and implemented tastemaker DJ's to serve up music with the human personality and touch that's worked since the 50's in promoting artists.
I'm sure you can. Not all the details are out yet. Wait for their website to update.
they bought beats music, which is just like spotify or rdio. I'm assuming beats will no longer exist, as it's been rebranded into apple music
So, beats one radio + connect are free for everyone. The streaming service is 9.99 per month. That's pretty good. Plus this is available in 100+ countries.
That's how I took it. Anything in the iTunes Music Store can be streamed.
The audience laughed because he said something similar to what steve said when the iPhone was announced.
So are we going to be able to download for offline usage like spotify and others? Or is it strictly streaming?
They never made clear the music service offers but it's launching soon and you get 3 months free 
plenty of time to if I stick with Spotify; really like the family plan pricing.
plenty of time to if I stick with Spotify; really like the family plan pricing.