Exclusive to iTunes. If we're remembering right it's the only place you could buy / download their catalogue legally. No streaming service had their catalogue unless you uploaded your own paid-for songs
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Apple Music First Impressions: Convenient All-in-One Experience With Overwhelming Design
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Exclusive to iTunes. If we're remembering right it's the only place you could buy / download their catalogue legally. No streaming service had their catalogue unless you uploaded your own paid-for songs
Mossberg said right now Apple Music is the only streaming music service he'd pay for. But he didn't really compare it to anything else or say exactly what's better about it than the competition, outside of the obvious deep integration with your iTunes library. But if you're someone like me who doesn't have a vast paid iTunes library what makes Apple Music better? Larger catalog of music? Better curation than Pandora. That's what I'd like to know.
And just as I'm typing this I get a notification that AC/DC is now available on Spotify.
It sounds like the curation is far superior. Curation full stop isn't what sets it apart from Spotify, but the level of talent curating the music is. Also, failing all else, it gives you access to a larger selection of music.
You can add to My Music, and then it becomes available for iCloud download. Not sure if that's just because I have iTunes Match, and not sure what would happen if I cancelled my subscription
Just to add, having done this, it's now available on my iPhone (which is on iOS 8) as it's seen under iTunes Match
My dumb question is about how it all works together. I don't understand the point of buying songs any longer. If I can listen to any song at any time and download it for offline listening (just in case) why do I need to buy songs? And once you start using Apple Music what is the point of all of your old purchased songs? I'm having a hard time understanding how it all comes together.
I like Spotify. It's great for building up a library of playlists. And its great for playing some random song/artist that you just though of on a whim. But what it's not great at is discovery, especially since they discontinued their app API (and booted out all the apps) several months ago.
Now that the apps are gone, Spotify's lack of good discovery has left a pretty big hole that Apple Music will no doubt be trying to fill. Good luck to them!
Now that the apps are gone, Spotify's lack of good discovery has left a pretty big hole that Apple Music will no doubt be trying to fill. Good luck to them!
Although I don't disagree with you regarding increased piracy, the one benefit Apple has over the other guys is that you can simply purchase the album and stream it with iTunes Match. Remember, we're talking about consumers and when people continue to pay $9.99 a month, eventually, that cost is forgotten and it becomes, "Oh well, Apple Music doesn't have this album. I'll just buy it and stream it."
Are you kidding? Music made Apple what it is today. The focus on iTunes sold iPods which evolved into the iPhone which accounts for 70% of Apple's revenue.
Apple is a company with a passion like many of its users. Not everything is about the bottom line but eventually allowing the company to have a culture and taste for music pays off.
Am I correct in thinking the £21.99 on auto payment for iTunes match should be stopped - can't really see any reason for continuing that?
So basically AC/DC was exclusive to iTunes. Bit of a get then for Spotify and others to get their music same time as Apple Music. But I suppose Apple is OK with that because they don't want to invite any sort of anti trust investigations.
You can still buy it so you can keep it should you choose to end your subscription. Once you cancel your subscription you lose access to all of the songs, even those you've saved for offline listening. Your old purchased songs are available for streaming or download at any time, just like now. They can also be integrated and mixed with streaming items from Apple Music.
Spotify add AC/DC to their library this morning, can only assume it will be on Apple Music now!
EDIT: I am late to the party, have seen it mentioned by other members.
EDIT: I am late to the party, have seen it mentioned by other members.
Let's just hope Apples servers can hold up to the new CONSTANT demand. I mean. Think about all the cloud services they offer now... Or just the magnitude of software updates and app downloads. Imessage... Icloud... That's a lot of traffic flow
I don't think it was ever confirmed to be exclusive to iTunes. If I remember the MacRumors post yesterday correctly they said AC/DC was coming to AM, Spotify, and Rdio.
Spotify and many other services that exist today won't exist in 2 years. I predict Apple to completely own and control the streaming market within 2 years. Amazon and Google will be able to compete and survive but that's it.
Big corporations knocking the little guys out is very normal once a market becomes established. To make this a profitable endeavor for Apple they really need to be aggressive to knock all the little guys out and then they have a lot more control over pricing and cutting exclusive deals with more artists.
By the time the 6s is released the Android app will be out. Or did you miss that part of the keynote?
So the Last.fm app won't scrobble any songs that I play with Apple Music? Even if I'm playing them through iTunes on my Mac? If not then that is kind of a dealbreaker for me, but it seems like Last.fm could easily fix this with an update to their app.
It makes sense if it can't scrobble songs streamed on my iOS device, but there might even be a fix for that eventually, since the app currently scrobbles songs played on my device after I sync with iTunes.
If you save a playlist for offline listening to your mac or PC, can you then synchronize that playlist to an older iPod like a Shuffle or a Nano? That would be nice for workouts, etc. I can see them limiting this though, because you could fill up an iPod Classic with AppleMusic songs and then stop subscribing....unless you synced the iPod again, how would it know if you still have a subscription?