Apple Music Hits 40 Million Subscriber Milestone

[sir1963nz]

Sorry, but I don't rent software and I don't rent music.

If I want free ad supported streaming music, I turn my radio on.
No user account needed, no tracking information possible, no CreditCard information stored, a choice of Music genres , a device to listen with a headphone socket costs about $10. No cellular data is queried, no cellular account is needed. It even works in areas where there is no cellphone coverage, especially when there is a natural disaster and you want up to date information. It has replaceable batteries and will run a hell of a lot longer than a cellphone when the power it out.

 

[Tech198]

"Spotify, when it filed for IPO in late February, said that it has 71 million paying subscribers in total along with 159 million monthly active users."

Apple started late though

 

[mrunix]

I am from Europe and I have never ever heard of anyone using Apple Music, ALL kids is on Spotify nowadays and share they playlist and so it's amazing.

There is now way Apple can beat Spotify, maybe in a duck pond like US but not in the rest of the world.

 

[Chopper9]

It sucks for me, i tried for 1 month because i wanted to check it out, but i will return to spotify in the next days

Word. I've tried it 3 times since its introduction... each time hoping they've made headway on it cause I REALLY want to switch over from Spotify so it plays nice with all my other stuff. But I can't... Spotify's interface is so superior I don't see it happening anytime soon. Unbelievable to me that the one time kings of interfaces and functionality can't seem to put together a competent music software app that doesn’t suck. iTunes is **** as well.

 

[manu chao]

You can only update products that are currently shipping,

a) You won't find a dictionary definition that backs that up.
b) You know exactly what I meant, everybody knew what I meant.
c) As long as everybody understands what is meant, there is something called creative license that overrides any pedantry.

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Apple Music is much better in those areas, but could still use improvement. The RDIO queue looks pretty good, and I LOVE that it syncs between devices. I would often find music at work that I wanted to queue up for later that evening, but not really add it to my library just yet. Spotify couldn't handle it.
.

I have no trouble continuing listening to Q's set up on one device (or an album, playlist etc) on another device later - as long as I don't close Spotify on the first device.

Closing Spotify clears the Q.
However, albums or playlists etc will happily continue on the second device after closing on first device.

 

[PickUrPoison]

I don't see that pulling a ton of people away. Spotify isn't as integrated of an experience. Additionally, saving a couple dollars isn't enough to get most to switch once they've picked a different option. It's far too much work for most and they'll just pay the difference to stay with the service they're on.

Also, the combo offer only applies to the Hulu tier with commercials. And there’s no deal available for Spotify family or annual plans. So it really only applies to individual, monthly users who don’t want commercials interrupting their music, but are fine with commercials during video.

 

[0029937]

Sorry, but I don't rent software and I don't rent music.

If I want free ad supported streaming music, I turn my radio on.
No user account needed, no tracking information possible, no CreditCard information stored, a choice of Music genres , a device to listen with a headphone socket costs about $10. No cellular data is queried, no cellular account is needed. It even works in areas where there is no cellphone coverage, especially when there is a natural disaster and you want up to date information. It has replaceable batteries and will run a hell of a lot longer than a cellphone when the power it out.

Radio? It's 2018, come on. No one should be listening to the radio anymore. Ads sucks. And so does not being able to skip a song that's currently playing that you don't want to listen to.

You don't rent, others gladly do.

 

[PhillyProf]

I've been an AM subscriber ever since the launch. Now I pay for an annual subscription, which nominally is $99, but every year I buy a $100 iTunes gift card when they are on sale for $85, so I'm paying just $7.08 per month. I hated the free version of Spotify for the ads, and found it confusing too. As a long-time CD buyer, I've switched to AM completely. I can listen in my car, on the train, and on my Apple TV while working out.

 

[0029937]

Word. I've tried it 3 times since its introduction... each time hoping they've made headway on it cause I REALLY want to switch over from Spotify so it plays nice with all my other stuff. But I can't... Spotify's interface is so superior I don't see it happening anytime soon. Unbelievable to me that the one time kings of interfaces and functionality can't seem to put together a competent music software app that doesn’t suck. iTunes is **** as well.

Indeed, iTunes is painful to use/look at.
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I can listen in my car, on the train, and on my Apple TV while working out.

Which you can do in Spotify as well.

Side note: only advantage I could see in Apple Music vs Spotify is Siri integration but we all know how painful that can be most times.

 

[capandjudy]

We have no idea if Apple Music is profitable. But it doesn't need to be as long as it sells iPhones.

Steve Jobs said back in the day that iTunes did good to break even.

 

[Plutonius]

I have no plans of ever getting it or any other music rental service .

 

[jonblatho]

I have an iTunes library stretching back to 2002 that's been migrated across four computers at this point and the thought of anything going in there any replacing tracks makes me feel like it'll be way too easy to have 16 years of music be mucked up real quick-like.

It hasn’t in my experience, but the vast majority of my music library (~2K songs, so decent sized but not huge) is straight off of either iTunes or Apple Music. I’ve had no issues with it mismatching any tracks.

I have seen that you can get around automatic matching by appending some descriptor (like “(Original)” or “(Acoustic)”) to the song name if mismatching is a concern, such that iCloud has no clue what song to attempt a match against. I’d just back up the originals outside of iTunes and then add things back in (unless doing so is unfeasible for whatever reason). The benefits of iCloud Music Library far outweigh the risks in my experience.

 

[Dimwhit]

I like it fine. My daughter loves it. I would like to see some more features, but for what I use it for, I can't complain.

 

[augustrushrox]

And yet STILL no way to follow playlists like Spotify or stream through a browser...

Those two features are the ONLY reasons I keep Spotify over Apple Music.
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ive said it before and ill say it again, now do it for movies!

Woah woah woah let's not get ahead of ourselves. Revolutionary to Apple now means Animoji.

 

[btkadams]

And yet STILL no way to follow playlists like Spotify or stream through a browser...

Those two features are the ONLY reasons I keep Spotify over Apple Music.
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Woah woah woah let's not get ahead of ourselves. Revolutionary to Apple now means Animoji.

You can follow playlists. What do you mean? Press add when you’re viewing a playlist and it adds it to your lists of playlists. It doesn’t add the songs to your library.

 

[Imola Ghost]

I'd switch if Apple Music offered higher quality streaming files, like Apple Lossless.

 

[Mayostudent]

I just can’t get into streaming. Sound quality is horrendous. You can stream 4k but not decent audio? WTF!?! I don’t get when audio took a back seat to video? It makes zero sense to me. I guess I’m old.

 

[montycat]

Im enjoying my trial of Apple Music so far. Ive found the most obscure songs I can think of and like having all my music with me. Im going to give up on Sirius XM when my subscription ends.

 

[Machead2012]

Even with similar content it can't touch Spotify and will never match the numbers. Wishful thinking on Apples part.

 

[Sevendaymelee]

And the race to the bottom continues. I have Apple Music. It's cool. But it sounds like garbage when being used loudly through a good home system. It's just too low in the fidelity department and because of that, I still have to resort to buying CD's for the albums I want to listen to at home and use Apple Music in the car.

Hopefully Apple will start a premium version where we can stream lossless.

 

[G4DPII]

Nice how there is no mention of Apple stopping iTunes downloads in this, which they are planning on doing around March next year. Current claim is that anything already downloaded will always work on Apple devices, but then they change their minds more than a hooker drops her knickers.

Time to start making full copies of anything purchased from the iTunes store.

At least this is another help to get out of the Apple ecosystem, crap choice of iPods, even worse choice go high end computers.

So Music is now in the DNA of Apple? These guys will say any crap to keep the sheep happy.

 

[seadragon]

I had it for a while, but just canceled my subscription recently. I discovered that I'm not into streaming. I'm old school apparently and prefer to purchase and download music onto my own devices/servers. I simply wasn't using Apple Music enough.

 

[spazzcat]

Sorry, but I don't rent software and I don't rent music.

If I want free ad supported streaming music, I turn my radio on.
No user account needed, no tracking information possible, no CreditCard information stored, a choice of Music genres , a device to listen with a headphone socket costs about $10. No cellular data is queried, no cellular account is needed. It even works in areas where there is no cellphone coverage, especially when there is a natural disaster and you want up to date information. It has replaceable batteries and will run a hell of a lot longer than a cellphone when the power it out.

Why are you here? You know you're being tracked? And I would never own as much music as I am currently renting and I am support artist every time I listen to them, so they can create more music. And having a backup weather radio has nothing to do with listening to music. I rent music and have a windup weather radio in case of disaster.

 

[mashdots]

“Music is at the heart of Apple’s DNA.”

Ok, let’s get the iPod Touch updated then

son of a mother's lover, i totally forgot about the ipod touch