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Apple Introduces Apple Music Student Membership Option With 50% Discount at $4.99 per Month
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I haven't tried to get Apple Music with it, but I am already verified with UniDAYS for other purposes such as Spotify discount and I can get it validated with my uea.ac.uk email address. A few years ago I managed it with a .surrey.sch.uk email address for Sixth Form as well, though perhaps that has now changed.
Ah yes, you can get unidays membership with a school no problem,
However Apple Music is only accepting certain unidays accounts it seems, I.e most universities.
I got my Community College account to work by creating an account manually with UniDays and then clicking "Already verified with UniDays" on the Apple Music verification site. It is a little back door for Community Colleges for now.
1) Just because it's a set standard doesn't make it reasonable
2) Video is also a long form, bandwidth intensive format especially compared to music. The minute to minute entertainment value I receive from TV/movies far surpasses that of music and as a broad statement it applies to most people. I don't know a single person that intentionally listens to more music in a day than picks a TV show/movie to watch. Music is more passive form of entertainment, one you have on in the background while you drive or go for a walk. Just because you have access to 100 billion songs doesn't mean you'll enjoy 1/10th of them or purposefully. While generally you meant to put on that Netflix movie/tv show at least 90% of the time.
Then hooray for Netflix, their content teams know what make you tick. I'm just saying it from an economical point of view, music streaming services have to license entire catalogs of music. Video streaming services don't.
Films and TV shows have a plethora of licensing fees as well... I don't have any numbers in front of me but they would be on par if not more for video media than audio on a unit basis. Just because there are more units in audio catalogs doesn't mean their licensing fees are any higher. Music as a medium is far more disposable than video these days.
You are failing to understand my point.
Licensing isn't done on a per-unit basis and it's not done the same way for music as it is for video.
Spotify licenses entire music labels of content. They license their entire library, past, present and future. When something is released physically, it's available on Spotify at exactly the same time (usually). It is perpetual, and with a few exceptions the music does not disappear, it is always there to listen to.
Netflix licenses select TV series and select movies. Those licenses will frequently run out and will not be renewed. Hence what might be on Netflix one day, is gone the next. What you are essentially getting with Netflix is access to a select library or catalogue of content. You're accessing the private collection of a super movie and TV fan, who occasionally sells part of his collection to make money to buy other things to add to his collection. And you're the one paying him a fee to do so. What you get with Spotify is open, unrestricted access to the very source of the music, not just a super movie fan's personal collection. That's why it costs more.
Unless I want to listen to Adele, Taylor Swift or Kanye's new album...
But I digress... as I'm coming from a consumer perspective and $9.99 for Audio does not hold the same value as Video at $9.99 for streaming media. Just because I have access to the entire library of the Bee Gees doesn't mean I will ever listen to it... I'd rather have a rotating access to hit singles of all genres than the entire catalog of anything to stream. If I wanted the entire Album I probably already own it.