Apple Music Signs New Multiyear Deals With World's Largest Record Labels

[DeepIn2U]

When does Apple Music support ALAC (or ... FLAC)?
thank you for any hint

thank you! Clearly there is a demand for this yet on these board, like someone who quoted you below seem to think ungodly high amounts of storage is necessary. Moreover atm, Apple doesn’t have any headphones that support Hi-Res Audio.

HomePod does support FLAC & AFLAC.

Dude.

(Probably when they release a 1tb iPhone.)

Apple providing this option does not necessarily preclude onl those with an iPhone want to listen to lossless audio codec. Moreover it doesn’t mean someone entire library is to be stored on their iPhone. Hi-Res Audio doesn’t have to be 9Kbps bitrate.

 

[MacBH928]

with all this streaming, I wonder if purchasing multimedia outright will disappear as companies will just "stream" the content. I imagine most people prefer to pay $10-20 monthly to get an all access on the opposite of paying $10 per movie/album/book.

 

[bpp85]

with all this streaming, I wonder if purchasing multimedia outright will disappear as companies will just "stream" the content. I imagine most people prefer to pay $10-20 monthly to get an all access on the opposite of paying $10 per movie/album/book.

It’s obvious by now a vast majority of people prefer streaming. However I don’t think companies are going to miss out on earning money from physical media as well. There are still people who will occasionally want to buy a physical copy of something they like.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

I would LOVE to have Apple, I'm in the entire Ecosystem. That said, not subscribing until it's lossless like Tidal or Amazon Music HD. I need lossless for my home audio setup (above >$20K). I'm perhaps the minority, but Apple does cater to artists, and a more "high-end" crowd of folk. I would assume most are at least using speakers such as KEF LS50's, which are $1K and need lossless just the same. For Airpods or Beats, compressed is just fine.

I would love to hear your setup... but at the same time, I don't want to. I'm that type of personality that when something is an upgrade, I get a bug about upgrading my stuff as well. And right now, I'm happy with my AirPods Pro and (at least sound wide) my HomePods (them acting as sound for Apple TV content is another story).

It’s obvious by now a vast majority of people prefer streaming. However I don’t think companies are going to miss out on earning money from physical media as well. There are still people who will occasionally want to buy a physical copy of something they like.

Right, and especially since label/contract/service turmoil can lead to things being pulled... I like having my physical copies combined with iTunes Match/in the Cloud.

 

[BuffaloTF]

I would be interested to hear a response to this from someone who knows the answer. At least in the media, streaming companies are criticized for how much money is paid to artists, making it seem as if streaming companies like Spotify and Apple are at fault for the amounts artists receive.

They agreed to the 44% raise for artist royalties last year. And they appear to be proposing a flat rate of any stream longer than 30 seconds.

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Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but that's my stab at it.

 

[Chrisbc]

It’s a shame the music industry are holding Apple hostage on bundles! Think about all the people paying for news, arcade, TV or storage that’d be willing to pay a few more bucks for music/all services. I’m sure Apple will give more profit from the other services to make up for part of the drop in music margin, but growth would also make up for this. With recurring revenue, it’s always better to maximize. I’m holding out for a services bundle!

 

[MacBH928]

It’s obvious by now a vast majority of people prefer streaming. However I don’t think companies are going to miss out on earning money from physical media as well. There are still people who will occasionally want to buy a physical copy of something they like.

I wonder if these make enough profit for companies to continue to produce them, cd players are disappearing and Bluray is kept alive by videogames consoles, there is hardly any advancement on BD players like we used to see on VHS/DVD players.

One interesting thing I noticed is that Netflix sells their movies on iTunes, and I wonder who wants to buy the movie for the same price they can get a full month of Netflix to watch the movie and other content.

 

[nylonsteel]

wondering how much aapl paid for this