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Apple Music Student Plan Pricing Increases by 20% in US, UK, EU, Canada, and Other Countries [Updated]

contacos said:
In Germany it is. In fact, you could not find it at any supermarket for months. I even bought an air fryer in the meantime to sort of compensate. It has gotten better again recently though
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Wow. €5 or thereabouts nets you three litres here and I think restrictions on purchases have been lifted recently. Some supermarkets limited you to two or three bottles per purchase for a while. Considering that we all get our sunflower oil from Ukraine, not sure why it's so much more expensive in Germany. Maybe we had bigger stockpiles here. I dunno.
 
dumastudetto said:
Apple Music is lossless and offers spatial audio listening experiences.
Spotify uses lossy/lousy compressed audio files.
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Depends how you define lossy. 128Kb/s is lossy and was supposedly fine for iTunes when it launched even when competitors were offering higher bitrates. Pretty sure that nobody could hear the difference between 320Kb/s and ALAC. There have been enough tests that have established that normal human hearing just cannot tell the difference between the two. Spatial just sounds like another pointless equaliser tweak making a recording sound less like what was done in the studio.

Just not buying this nonsense.
 
L92 said:
Most students use BT earphones, where lossless is pointless. Even with wired ones, you need a good one to actually hear something if anything. And Spotify Connect works better for the Apple ecosystem than Apple Music, or Apple Podcast. Considering how deeply integrated they are it's actually quite baffling how Apple devices couldn't pick up Music and Podcast for continuous playback like Spotify does it, which is like magic. I'm using both from time to time. AM ui is nicer, but Spotify is vastly faster (even on i13P). It's also joke that playlist orders for AM only coming in iOS16, so it took them like 10 years to figure it out.
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The irony...

Apple: let's remove the jack so that everyone buys our BT headphones

Also Apple: let's make Apple Music lossless... yeah that's it, that's what will make them switch from Spotify.
 
I prefer Apple Music, and I'm an Android user primarily. Apple Music's curation playlists is a lot better imo than Spotify's, and knowing how Apple pays artists more than other services pushed me towards Apple Music.
 
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sideshowuniqueuser said:
The irony...

Apple: let's remove the jack so that everyone buys our BT headphones

Also Apple: let's make Apple Music lossless... yeah that's it, that's what will make them switch from Spotify.
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Apple Music isn't solely based from BT connectivity. Any Mac can output it to an external DAC over USB-C and then to wired headphones. Additionally the Apple TV output going to a AVR over HDMI is higher quality.

No disagreement that Apple audio products are limited audio quality. (BT products and Beats wired headphones)

Headphones - Apple

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Realityck said:
Apple Music isn't solely based from BT connectivity. Any Mac can output it to an external DAC over USB-C and then to wired headphones. Additionally the Apple TV output going to a AVR over HDMI is higher quality.

No disagreement that Apple audio products are limited audio quality. (BT products and Beats wired headphones)

Headphones - Apple

Apple Store Search Results
www.apple.com
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Ah, I didn't know that, thanks for the reality ck ;)
 
When I was a high school/college student, the iPod and iTunes were just getting popular. Every Christmas/birthday, I would ask for iTunes gift cards. I'd spend whatever I felt like at the time on iTunes gift cards. I have around 500 songs permanently added to my library because of that investment.

If the unlimited services had been available then (yeah yeah Limewire could go **** itself, I am a paying person) I wouldn't have had those songs, as I was not the kind of person who plans that far in advance. The new generation who only know streaming will have to be paying forever. I still buy the handful of songs released each year that resonate with me.
 
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