Apple Music Estimated to Have 8M Paying Subscribers, Predicted to Hit 20M by End of 2016

[MH01]

There is no supporting data on how they got the results, other than saying it came from midia, which offers a service. Unless they state how the data was compiled, it's a meaningless prediction that could be way under or way over. i definitely would not be supporting this as credible.

 

[Jstuts5797]

Someone asked if you can use smart playlists with Apple Music. Yes, you indeed can as I use them all the time. I've heard some people (especially the ones who seem to be inexplicably plagued with many many Apple Music bugs) that smart playlists don't work. But they have always worked for me, and sync to iTunes on my PC and all my iOS devices automatically. It's super useful and very very cool.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Apple, please stop making me exit the full-screen player and forcing me to navigate to the song in a list to download a song.

 

[DudeDad]

I'm enjoying Apple Music. I just added it to my Sonos system and listened to a Pink Floyd station....nice collection of songs. Given the $$ we were spending as a family on music, the family plan made sense.

 

[kschles]

After using Apple Music for 5 months, I went back to Spotify. I liked a lot of features of Apple Music. In theory, the integration with my large music library (10,000 plus tracks) should have been a plus. But I found that even after 5 months and several IOS 9 updates, the iCloud integration did not work well. Some of my playlists kept disappearing and sometimes reappearing. A number of tracks from previously downloaded or purchased albums are just gone. Sometimes a whole album would disappear or change from one version to another similar version (live to studio). Concluded that I want to keep my library and streaming service separate. This doesn't seem possible with Apple Music. Spotify's recent "Discover Weekly" feature made that service a lot more appealing.

 

[nburwell]

You do understand that Spotify is only $9.99 if you subscribe without going through the Appstore...right? That Appstore surcharge should be enough to make you sick.

I'm aware. It's easier through iTunes since I'd rather it deduct out of the store credit I have. I have Netflix/HBONOW set up the same way.

 

[ipedro]

The Apple Music library is the best and most complete at this point. The recommendations and playlists are pretty darn impressive once it gets to know you. But the app itself is too complex and with unnecessary and unintuitive tabs that you end up never looking at.

There should be just one home page for discovering music that is customized to each person. Instead of separate tabs for For You, New and Connect, have one Music page with the Top 10, new music, featured music catered to your tastes, and interspace that with recent posts from artists you follow.

Apple doesn't really have to reinvent the wheel here. They already have something like this for the iTunes Store. Just make a version of that but curated to each person's individual tastes.

 

[fjzingo]

Fascinating how Apple can make the crap app iTunes even worse, Spotify is by far superior in offering a Quick interface to find the music you wan't. The musicsuggestions where quite lame and suggests the most obvous. interesting that Music's interface where lagning on 250MBit internet.....Goodbye Music.

 

[bushido]

reasons to keep spotify ...

so much easier to discover music or cool playlists and see whats new. worth it for "new music friday" "music in 2015" alone plus it doesn't interfere with my own local music. oh and it doesnt remove all my offline music when i log out of my apple id!

 

[ianpaulbolton]

So i have a massive library, I want to keep that, but now with Apple Music I can add stuff for offline playing on my phone but this isn't synced over to my laptop. Thought because it was Apple everything just works seamlessly - together?! Possibly a great service let down by iTunes. A program which just seems to do loads of things badly at the moment. Sort it out Apple

 

[mrgeekguymd]

I don't get it? Like your whole collection would just download as you keep adding songs? The obvious issue is most people's music libraries exceed the storage space on their devices. Thus you pic and choose what to keep on your list.

Yes, just my library, not the entire Apple Music library obviously.

 

[Risco]

If Apple makes it $4.99 a month, I'd jump right back to Apple music...

Apple don't have a choice in this matter.

Labels Said to Reject Pricing Below $9.99

Besides it is not exactly expensive and is clearly not aimed at people with your mindset anyway so they have lost nothing!

 

[JGIGS]

Yes, just my library, not the entire Apple Music library obviously.

Couldn't you just set up a smart playlist to do that? Of course your library still has to be small enough to fit on the storage which most peoples entire libraries don't if you are older than a teenager.

 

[baimiss]

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I'm really enjoying Apple Music now that a lot of bugs have been ironed out. I like having access to a lot of bands I wouldn't have before; the recommendation engine is terrific; and it integrates well with my previous music files.

BUT they really need to fix the matching algorithm or enable a way for the user to upload mis-matched tracks. I have loads of live music that I've spent years tagging and curating, and Apple Music keeps matching live tracks with studio cuts. It's a major issue, and I have yet to find a decent work around.

Personally, I am now using Apple Music.