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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 actually pretty excited to get rid of Spotify. It was pretty good for what it did, but now that the streaming portion is now standard for iTunes/Apple Music, there's no need for it on my phone. I still purchase music, so this is a nice mixture of being able to select what I want to store and download and what I just want to listen to on the fly.
You're funny . you probably thought you'd get people angry by saying this, but you just made me laugh!
Have a great week, and don't let things get to you so hard
Seriously? Was I watching something different? $9.99 or $14.99 for a family of 6 and you can stream any song on iTunes. You can make playlists, skip, do as you want, looked very similar to Spotify. Only thing I didn't see is if you could download playlists to play offline.
Certainly not the same as radio and no restrictions on skipping etc.
On the Apple Music website it states you can save songs for offline streaming! https://www.apple.com/music/membership/
Other than providing customized music suggestions, what does Apple Music bring to the table that I cannot already do for free?
I don't even understand what I'm supposed to be excited about.
I don't even understand what I'm supposed to be excited about.
Because you can play everything. Like every.thing.
So can we download songs to listen to on the subway like Spotify? Also they were listening to beats1 radio on what looked like a subway in that ad... does that mean you can download programs like a podcast or something?
The audience laughed because he said "It's three things" - (How Jobs introduced the iPhone).
It's not really that surprising. A lot of current Beats subscribers are using Android phones. Apple didn't want to leave them behind and give other services like Spotify the opportunity to pick them up.
YOU CAN SAVE FOR OFFLINE LISTENING!
So... can you save music for offline use like in Spotify. I would consider it a fundamental feature for music streaming services, but they didn't really show it in the Keynote.
Here in New Zealand, we don't have uncapped mobile data plans so as you can imagine the ability to save for offline is incredibly important. I want Apple Music to fully replace Spotify.
Here in New Zealand, we don't have uncapped mobile data plans so as you can imagine the ability to save for offline is incredibly important. I want Apple Music to fully replace Spotify.
Streaming on Cell Data Takes up too much data for this to work for us. When iTunes radio first came out, my family loved it. However, we were constantly going over our data allotment (10GB) per month and so I stopped it. The costs were outrageous, and I already give AT&T enough money each money to increase our data plan. So on top of our $14.99 a month, we are looking at major data overage charges. Just not going to work.
Agreed. Iovine looked completely unrehearsed. His delivery was confusing, sloppy and distracting. Cook must have been groaning backstage. The Apple Music segment was a mess overall. It was difficult trying to understand what the big deal was supposed to be. Apple Radio was a yawn. Connect, meh. And Apple Music offers little more than Spotify and all the rest. I give this a big fat D for Dull and Don't Care. I think Amazon Prime and Google Play offer much better value.
"Apple Inc shares were down 0.5 percent at $128.05 in afternoon trading"
..just now
Can I play any song I like?
Can I make a "radio" from any song I like?
Can I pick any song to listen to?
Is the entire iTunes music server available to me?
Can I skip as many songs as I like?
Is there an download/offline feature?
What happens to iTunes Match? Still $25 a year on top of the $9.99 a month?
Why would I ditch Spotify?
Is there a student discount?
So many unanswered questions!
Can I make a "radio" from any song I like?
Can I pick any song to listen to?
Is the entire iTunes music server available to me?
Can I skip as many songs as I like?
Is there an download/offline feature?
What happens to iTunes Match? Still $25 a year on top of the $9.99 a month?
Why would I ditch Spotify?
Is there a student discount?
So many unanswered questions!
As a musician/ composer, I find the features amusing. It has potential to becoming a "game changer" to the music industry to say the least. Now if Apple let artists bypass record labels and publish on our own, which resembles the environment for app store, it will really be the biggest move Apple has done in many years. (judging by Eddy Cue featuring an unsigned artist's connect page, it could be a reality)
They haven't done a good job of explaining this, but their site does say that there are still free ad supported radio stations.
No mention of iTunes Match or iTunes Radio. No discussion about ways Apple is making it easy for people to switch from Spotify, Rdo, etc. Eddy kept using the word revolutionary but I'm still waiting for that part? A 24/7 radio station? I can pull up an app right now and listen to any BBC radio station live whenever I want. Why would I pay $10 for that?