Same here, they are often the same price or cheaper than iTunes and you usually get an instant MP3 download if you buy from Amazon.Who cares really? I still buy CDs because at least I own a copy that way.
I could save you another £9 a month sending you to your local public library...
Same here, they are often the same price or cheaper than iTunes and you usually get an instant MP3 download if you buy from Amazon.
If you are jailbroken, you can install Aria2 and hide any tab in the music app including iTunes Radio and the For You tabs.It's really annoying that Apple Music screen appears every time I open my Music App. Is there a way of removing it so I don't have to keep pressing the Not Now option every time? I tired Apple Music for a few months and thought it was too confusing with a really bad UI so I've no desire to go back to it when there are better options available.
Who cares really?
I still buy CDs because at least I own a copy that way.
Perhaps if you read through the previous 14 pages in this thread, you'll figure it out.what's iTunes radio?
Same here, they are often the same price or cheaper than iTunes and you usually get an instant MP3 download if you buy from Amazon.
Have you noticed that some of the CDs on Amazon that are available with AutoRip are actually cheaper than just buying the MP3 download?I do the same. Started years ago.
And, not only do you get a hard copy you own on its own storage media, and the auto rip mp3s, you get free storage of all your auto ripped mp3s that can be streamed from Amazon's music app or a browser.
How everyone was duped into thinking going all digi-download with no CD, tied to a particular platform, for roughly the same price & often more... always baffled me.
Have you noticed that some of the CDs on Amazon that are available with AutoRip are actually cheaper than just buying the MP3 download?![]()
Have you noticed that some of the CDs on Amazon that are available with AutoRip are actually cheaper than just buying the MP3 download?![]()
Honest question, at what point do you just jump ship and get a Nexus or other Android phone? I ask myself this regularly. Aside from trusting my privacy more with Apple, I generally like Google services more.
For now, I subscribe toMusic family plan and use it quite often on my SONOS setup. This change won't affect me obviously, but I can see why people would be annoyed by making these stations unavailable for free, especially if people would regularly turn around and purchase songs they heard on these no longer free stations.
I'm deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem but I loath the direction Apple is headed under John Sculley ... errrr .. Tim Cook.
Pandora may be out of business in the next 12 months.
They lost about $250 million in 2015. This is crazy since the company is only worth $2 billion. That's like Apple losing $50 billion in a single year.
Bottom line is the free music business model is unsustainable long term. The only way companies can continue to support these services is if they spam you with a ton of ads or datamine you to death.
the free music business model works its called radio and has been around for a while so i'm sure its possible
My situation is very similar to yours. I too have been using Apple products since the mid-1990s, and for years have been reluctant to look elsewhere. However, lately I've been tempted. The real test will come in about a month, when (or if) Apple releases a smaller iPhone. I'm not interested in the larger phones Apple is currently selling, but I also don't want an "iPhone 5se" (or whatever) that is built on last year's technology. If that happens, the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact will become my new phone. And that will make the decision to drop iTunes Match in favor of Google or Amazon music services all that easier as well.I am too deeply invested in Apple's ecosystem. It will take a lot more for me to jump ship, but for the first time since the mid 90's, and after paying many thousands of dollars worth Apple's products, I am starting to look elsewhere for future electronics.
This sneaky move by Apple against iTunes Match customers has really turned me off.
This sneaky move by Apple against iTunes Match customers has really turned me off.
Sneaky may not be the best word to describe Apple's actions, but with the way it went down, I wouldn't consider using sneaky to be too harsh.Sneaky? Kind of harsh for me.
This doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I am reading it wrong, but why is the name iTunes Radio, and it being apart of AM service a reason for the discontinuation of iTunes Radio for paid Match subscribers?Just because its called iTunes Radio, its part of the AM service and that's why its no longer available to Match subscribers
But I do agree, Apple should have given some notice and maybe allowed a 30-days period before the cutoff for Match.
So did the free iTunes Radio.Yes terrestrial radio is free to listen to, but it has paid ads.
I am too deeply invested in Apple's ecosystem. It will take a lot more for me to jump ship, but for the first time since the mid 90's, and after paying many thousands of dollars worth Apple's products, I am starting to look elsewhere for future electronics.
Pandora halted trading today for more than five minutes for the markets to digest a possible sale of the service. Reports of losing too much money.