The post is about the lossless audio and all the extra bells and whistles. The issue I and others have is that we want to upgrade our music but don't want to pay thousands on a streaming service for music we already own. $0.50 - $1.29 a song upgrade would be a-ok.
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Apple Music Launching Spatial Audio With Dolby Atmos and Lossless Audio in June at No Extra Cost
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The post is about the lossless audio and all the extra bells and whistles. The issue I and others have is that we want to upgrade our music but don't want to pay thousands on a streaming service for music we already own. $0.50 - $1.29 a song upgrade would be a-ok.
I am not expecting the quality to change for free. I was expecting to pay Apple money to upgrade like we did with the 128bit to 256bit+DRM free transition.
I have a neighbor and I can hear when he plays his music. It’s pretty much the same <40 songs over and over again.
I don’t find it surprising that there are folks like this. People use music in different ways. For some music is more of a structural support, an unmoving foundation. For others, music has tides, it ebbs and flows continuously through their lives. Fortunately for Apple and other streaming services, the millions of members in the latter group make streaming a viable business opportunity.
I think the issue is that you want both DRM-free files and lossless despite lossless being a DRM-streaming only feature
cake & eat it too situation
At present the standard AirPods don’t support Spatial Audio, but this press release states they will be supported along with any H1 or W1 chip device. However I’m assuming “Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos” is different to the current Spatial Audio for video, and doesn’t do any head tracking? Bit confusing.
Maybe the information is older, but it says artists receive $0.01 per stream and $0.05-$0.09 per purchase, meaning after streaming a song 6-10 times you are actually supporting the artist more than purchasing the song.
It doesn't have to be DRM free and I am sorry if I gave that impression. All I want to do is re-buy 200-267 songs in the best format available.
I have a neighbor and I can hear when he plays his music. It’s pretty much the same <40 songs over and over again.
and normies listen to the same top-40 'popular' new songs over and over again all day (which i found agonizing when i worked in an office)
1-time purchase vs recurring payments...
Apple wants to be guaranteed the payments, hence why they are adding this feature to Apple Music and not extending it to the iTunes Store.
The same logic that Microsoft uses to sell Office 365: you can pay a monthly fee to get new features that are released on Office 365, or you can pay a 1-time fee and get a permanent license, but you won't be getting all of the new features that are released to Office 365, only a subset of the new features.
right but it's still a hard copy scenario, when even Music subscribers dont get that (from what I understand)
besides, how would an acceptable upgrade work in your scenario - you pay for the DRM-free track, then pay to lock it in DRM at a higher quality and remove your old use rights?
The post is about Apple Music streaming adding lossless audio, not iTunes adding lossless audio. And is there anything so far saying that you won’t be able to upgrade?
So if you prefer to own your music instead of rent you are SOL. It's such a pain to have to buy lossless music from Bandcamp, Beatport, 7Digital, etc. instead of iTunes Store.
I'm 51 and listen to 99% current and 1% 80s (the decade I was a teenager). Love finding new music - there's so much out there.
Unless I am missing something, Apples answer to LDAC is spatial audio and Dolby atmos? To some this may be cool but for me this is a bummer.
I was hoping that Apple was finally going to up their wireless codec to support hi res like every android phone can do. Considering Apple declared war on wires years ago, it is odd that they are back to requiring wires for true lossless.
I was hoping that Apple was finally going to up their wireless codec to support hi res like every android phone can do. Considering Apple declared war on wires years ago, it is odd that they are back to requiring wires for true lossless.
Fair enough - but they maybe want to spend the money on music they keep as opposed to music they rent
That’s a good point and interesting distinction. I’m expecting you’re right and we’ll know for sure in June.
If it has to be DRM'd then you pay the £1.29 or even £2 per song to have it in your library. Your DRM free music reminds DRM free. Apple know which songs you have bought and can offer special upgrade pricing as they did in the past. There is demand for lossless music, lossless music has 'large' files that are better stored on your machine. Why do I want to re-download(stream) 267 songs to my computer 80 times a week?
Yes The Verge has confirmed with Apple that lossless is coming only for Apple Music streaming, not for purchased iTunes download which blows. I stream music but I also buy the music I like since I create edits, mix tapes, etc.
The problem, and the reason I haven’t subscribed to Apple Music yet, is that all the music you match has DRM and when you return to iTunes Match alone, that music is no longer available. Whilst being only on iTunes Match ensures me to always have the matched music on my library. I think it works differently.
From my own experience when you buy outside the iTunes Store you have a good chance that that lossless music you just bought doesn't work on your iPhone or iTunes.
to save hard drive space
also i hope it'd play out of cache and not just re-stream literally every time
Storage is cheep but I can concede that is logical. As for a cache, that is unknown. And with Apple Music there is a appears to be a chance it'll try to play you non whitelisted music you haven't heard before.
Really it works just the same. iTunes Match is for you to have your music wherever you want. Apple Music also allow you to have YOUR music wherever you want. In reality they are the same thing. You didn’t lose the “matching function” of iTunes Match, only that the songs you matched now has DRM. But what difference does it make? Nothing because you will be able to listen to it just the same.
Don't think of any of these services as your local library. For either service you still need to have a master of your library stored somewhere else.