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Apple Music Connect to Shut Down, Suffering Same Fate as iTunes Ping
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Apple today announced that its Apple Music Connect social platform for artists is in the process of shutting down, suffering the same fate as Ping, the company's previous social network for music removed from iTunes in October 2012.
In a letter shared with artists, Apple said artists will no longer be able to post to Connect as of today, with the feature now removed from artist pages and the "For You" tab in Apple Music. Apple says all previously uploaded Connect content will remain searchable in Apple Music until May 24, 2019:Connect had its own tab in Apple Music when the app first launched in 2015, but its presence was later reduced to a section in the "For You" tab.
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This whole thing is emblematic of ‘new age’ design where every service and product has to have some shoehorned social media integration or gamification concept and no one every uses any of it
As we mourn the loss of Connect, let us remember the good times Connect brought us. <place memories here>
Yes, the loss of Connect is a cloud in our lives. But every cloud has a silver lining and the silver lining in this cloud is H.E.R. is featured on NPR's Tiny Desk.
RiP Connect. We barely knew thee.
Yes, the loss of Connect is a cloud in our lives. But every cloud has a silver lining and the silver lining in this cloud is H.E.R. is featured on NPR's Tiny Desk.
RiP Connect. We barely knew thee.
I don’t think they need Last.fm to implement it.
I’ve often seen the future of music monetization as “near free” all you can eat streaming + live music. I don’t mind the idea that musicians should work a little for their money. Live performances and merchandise is where the real money can be, not selling copies of digital files.
Apple Music should make live performances a prominent part of the app. If artists that you’re following add a performance near you, you’d be notified and could purchase a ticket.
Ticket sales are such a huge market that is currently very broken and Apple can absolutely eat Ticketmaster’s lunch and own the field.
This well maybe related to their recent purchase for artist development https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18130936/apple-platoon-artist-development-startup-acquisition
Maybe they had some other plans as to how to help artist more directly on a larger scale.
Maybe they had some other plans as to how to help artist more directly on a larger scale.
But every time I throw a pair of dice I get a different result?
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That’s Atari’s social network.
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Why not quote the BEATleS?
Actually we are supposed to but the notifications are so damn random it rarely works for me. I don’t get how hard it would be to have an entire section showing me new songs or albums by EVERY artist I follow or have in my library. But Apple bragged about the album notifications last year and it rarely works for me.
Honestly I kind of think for having all this power in a device ....smart phones aren’t so smart many times.
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Sad but true. Wish apple took more risks like they used to. And no I don’t mean removing headphone jacks. Hell even AirPods are so damn finicky sometimes on which device to connect to. I still love them but you’d think that they’d be smart enough to know if I’m on a phone call...DISREGARD EVERY OTHER DEVICE AND CONNECT TO THE PHONE AUTOMATICALLY. usually have to keep digging through and manually connect them 3 or 4 times to work if they were previously connected to an iPad.
As an artist in the store, this is LONG TIME coming for us. We can FINALLY control simple things, like changing the artist picture when a band is searched for. Ever notice how SOME of the artists in your list have an image and others don't? Only select labels had the privilege to ask Apple to add the photos for them. Now, we're supposed to have control over that. It's small and seems silly to most, for us, it's needed.
Why?
It’s one of my most used applications. As I sit in front of my Mac I never have to lift my iPhone, I can do all my texting on the Mac instead.
Would be interesting to hear your view on this.
There are things Apple is good at and things Apple is terrible at, and also things Apple should not even attempt to try. Social apps/features fall on the second or last for Apple.
Agreed. Although I think sharing with friends and family is cool. We need that still. Anything that fosters discovery. I don't need another Facebook.
This is quite likely. The drunken marketing at Apple these days is very strong. She always defeats sober thinking with adventurous, unworldly ideas. Costs money and wastes resources.
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You're wrong. Just listen in!
I don’t understand why they don’t take all the best features of other streaming services and combine them into Apple Music. I’d switch back in a heartbeat. Their playlist and music curation completely sucks compared to Spotify. :/
I absolutely agree. The best Music interface was in iOS 6, the current music interface (as well as the books app interface) is too much focused on selling things. I want to enjoy my music, read my books and not browse for a shopping experience.