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Apple Looking to Sign Drake, Pharrell and David Guetta as iTunes Radio Guest DJs
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revamped iTunes Radio... and it shall be called... Pong
Wonder what quality Apple's streaming service will deliver? I'd like to see better than average even if it's a few dollars more. Tidal is too weird; Google Play is very good and has pretty good selections on music playlists.
Sound quality Apple, sound quality is the request.
Sound quality Apple, sound quality is the request.
Drake, Pharrell and David Guetta thugs? What? Pharrell actually questioned Michael Brown's actions before his altercation with the police, Drake is far from thuggish and have you seen David Guetta? LOL Benny what the hell you smoking?
Exactly. Apple has more than enough cash to just buy a label and offer all the music it wants without negotiating for this or that.
That being said, not in the slightest bit interested in this.
Not my type of music, Tim cook caused a culture change at apple. Nothing was wrong with the culture at apple before IMO oh well as long as they still make great products. 
Heck no! This is the first time my iPad didn't freeze and reload the page.
Also, I can't wait the see what they unveil this year. I wonder how it would compete with Spotify.
I guess it would compete by offering a similar streaming service to Spotify.
Hope that answers your question.
Yea, but I meant as far as pulling people away from Spotify on over to their service
They could make it cheaper or better or both or offer something that Spotify doesn't have.
This new layout sucks on a desktop web browser - two posts (numbers 26 and 27) take up the entire space of the page for a single sentence. Guess it's a combination of having user name, member status avatar, location, post count etc. on the left taking up so much room.
What a ridiculous comment. I mean really indicative of some serious ignorance. Bethoven may be important to those who like classical, though the entire genre may be useless to those who like metal. Metal may be unlistenable to those who like pop. Pop may be horrible to those who like emo, and emo may be an embarrassment to hip hop.
I for one have never given two sh*ts about Beethovens music. It's so low on my pecking order that it's been shelved, permanently. I respect his place in music history and the impact it has had on much *more listenable* music. Many would feel the same about artists who I admire.
Do I think Beaber is sh%t? Yes. But I am hardly one to say what his fans should be listening to.
Perhaps you should open your pallet to a wider range instead of patting yourself on the back for listening to abnoxious renditions of maniacs musical scibes. Ever hear of Voxtrot, Pelical, Russian Circles or stanton moore? Educate yourself and come back so we can had an educated discussion on the merits of music.
So many pointless artist all Commercial junk such as David Guetta who does not really DJ live all pre-recorded sets. Why not have real DJs like John Digweed, Nick Warren, Guy J, James Zabiela or Hernan Cataneo. Really sad the poor taste in music this days MTV was something to open people's mind to music but not anymore just junk now. Only few good rappers left the rest are jokes I rather stick to Old Skool rap for the good memories.
And who cares about Beats streaming service if it is not included for iTunes Match customers maybe they should improve the audio quality for those people who still purchase music.
And who cares about Beats streaming service if it is not included for iTunes Match customers maybe they should improve the audio quality for those people who still purchase music.
Not sure if serious. But just in case, I reported you.
"Animal music" huh? Just say what you'd really like to say, sir.
Not my type of music, Tim cook caused a culture change at apple. Nothing was wrong with the culture at apple before IMO oh well as long as they still make great products.
And there's nothing wrong with the culture at Apple now.
It just happens to be different and not what it once was.
Everything changes with time.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the "culture". Like you said, just keep making great products.
I don't understand why the front page has the old layout and the rest of MR has the new layout?
Apple is in talks to sign Toronto-born rapper Drake, hip-hop artist Pharrell Williams and electronic music DJ David Guetta as guest DJs for a revamped iTunes Radio, according to the New York Post. The report also claims that Apple continues to negotiate with record labels for Apple Music and wants to offer a three-month free trial period for the $10-a-month streaming music service.
Apple Music will reportedly combine the best features of Pandora, Spotify and YouTube into one service, including streaming music and video, artist pages, a YouTube-style sharing section called Apple Connect and a refreshed version of iTunes Radio. Apple also wanted to offer lyrics as part of the service, but does not want to pay extra to record labels to offer the feature.
Apple is expected to announce its new streaming music service on June 8 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, building upon the assets it acquired through its Beats Music purchase last year. The company will reportedly push customers to sign up for Apple Music by offering SoundCloud-like sharing, exclusive content and the aforementioned three-month free trial period.
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Personally, I just want a really good streaming service these days, IN CANADA! There's tons of radio stations that I browse and listen to. My tastes are different based on what I'm doing and what mood I'm in. The days of browsing the music store and buying music are behind me. I don't even listen to the thousands of songs that I've purchased from iTunes.
Probably the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
I like a lot of music. Some indie folk, some electronica, etc.
Sometimes the mundane bore me to tears & I want to hear some dirge. Like cacophonous sound. You'd hate it. I love it. It's visceral & lo-fi. It's grimy & good. Lol, your stance doesn't even make sense... According to you, how would anybody have good taste in music?? What if 80% of the people they love are on your "good" list, but their top 5 are on your "bad" list??
It's the height of ridiculous vanity to think you are judge of good vs. bad music.
Please state your qualifications: if you don't AT LEAST have a doctorate in music theory, go sit down.
Wrong.
Genius is a ill ran poorly crowd sourced hunk of crap.... getting worse DAILY.
The mods are garbage. I used to be much more active on there, but now every time I go on, I get irritated. It's just me looking at my history, then going back to the changes I recommended & "nagging" the mods to please actually correct the lyrics. They are in the habit of just leaving it on whatever the first bozo said. I've literally had to post a tweet from an artist stating "those lyrics are wrong, these are the correct lyrics..." just to get them to edit it. Others, I've finally given up.
Lol, they actually had it up there that "This Monkey's Gone to Heaven" by the Pixies was about an obscure manga, centered around a demon monkey god. Ok... 1st off, no. 2nd, that lame manga in question came out almost a decade AFTER the song. It stayed like that for like six months... EVERY comment after the initial "accepted" one was "no... this dude is wrong. plz take down the silly photo of a demon monkey & erase this so-called "explanation" of the lyrics". Month after month, comment after comment, it stayed.
I'd rather have the original unimproved version of Apple Maps forever with no updates than have Genius in ANY way tied into my iOS devices/content whatsoever.
I have a feeling Apple will completely change the way we think about a digital music service in a couple of weeks. This service is going to shock the world in a similar way to the launch of iTunes. Spotify, Rdio, Tidal, etc. are going to feel the heat like never before.
Apple could release a fork and I would be excited
Seriously I can't wait, only 7 more days! Apple TV!!!!!!! Of course when it's all over all the the excitement will be gone and I'll be thinking about the fall event.People can like bad music. Just like Hitler had a massive following. Was he a good guy?