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Apple Music Turns One Year Old With 15 Million Subscribers on Board and a Redesign on the Way

I just switched from Apple Music to Spotify and holy ****, what a night and day difference. The exploration of new music is VASTLY better, and getting served new music every week that's curated for you is light years ahead of AM.

Another fancy trick is, I can use any Spotify client to be a remote for another client. I used to AirPlay my music through an AirPort express to my Sony receiver (which skipped like crazy). After ditching the Airport Express because of higher ISP speeds, I just plug my old iPhone 5 into the receiver, fire up Spotify, then use my iPhone 6S to control what's playing on the 5. Yes, it really is THAT simple.

Oh and plus the upcoming AM redesign looks like they ripped the design straight from the pages of Entertainment Weekly.
 
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Benjamin Frost said:
I believe that Apple Music and all streaming services are to the long-term detriment of music.

If musicians don't have an incentive to be rewarded, they won't write music. This is why music has been dead since the early 90s. There has been the odd gem, but that's all.

I’ll stick to CDs and downloads to my dying day.
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Music isn't obviously dead since the 90s.

Music stopped influencing people, and people started to influence music. Artists don't do what they want, artists do what their brand managers decide to do in comitees with market studies.

The current model is making repetitive crap (not that repetition is bad per se), with more emphasis on stupid videos that the music. This might be the epitome.

Which is a disaster for creativity and expression.

You can stick with what you want, but a couple of people buying a couple of CDs won't change anything.
 
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theyearof84 said:
I just switched from Apple Music to Spotify and holy ****, what a night and day difference. The exploration of new music is VASTLY better, and getting served new music every week that's curated for you is light years ahead of AM.
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Holy ****, computer algorithms that tell you to listen to the same crap other people listen too?

Another fancy trick is, I can use any Spotify client to be a remote for another client. I used to AirPlay my music through an AirPort express to my Sony receiver (which skipped like crazy). After ditching the Airport Express because of higher ISP speeds, I just plug my old iPhone 5 into the receiver, fire up Spotify, then use my iPhone 6S to control what's playing on the 5. Yes, it really is THAT simple.
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It's called the Remote App.

Oh and plus the upcoming AM redesign looks like they ripped the design straight from the pages of Entertainment Weekly.
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Spotify recently ripped Apple Music design, and nobody bitched about it.
 
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kyjaotkb said:
Wondering about Beats One's future... Is anyone using it?
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I tune in a few times a week while I'm driving. I MUCH prefer their guest DJs to their main guys (who seem to play nothing but really aggressive hip-hop). The Alegator Hour was awsome and really enjoyed HAIM and Disclosure's shows. Elton John's show is pretty great, too.

Beats 1 could really be amazing with a few tweaks. It's live radio with artist interviews and such, minus the ads. There's so much potential there. Honestly, the best thing they could do is add more stations that cater to different tastes. Make it like SeriusXM but cheaper and more easily accessible.
 
Meh, another redesign. Let me know when they Dump the trash that is iTunes and make a web application so I can use it at work. This is just the power of Bloatware - growth will level off unless they actually fix it just like iBooks and Maps
 
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Cuban Missles said:
Happy Birthday to Apple Music. HOWEVER, please never ever take away my ability to purchase and download. I will never be a subscriber to a music streaming service and my loyalty will reside with the product that best serves my needs - namely, music downloading and cataloging.
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You can download songs and listen to them when you're offline on Apple Music, too. They'll disappear if you unsubscribe, though.
 
a.gomez said:
Meh, another redesign. Let me know when they Dump the trash that is iTunes and make a web application so I can use it at work. This is just the power of Bloatware - growth will level off unless they actually fix it just like iBooks and Maps
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A web app? You mean you don't like the idea of people being able to use it offline?
 
RedOrchestra said:
Funny how Apple continues to boast about the number of Apple Music subscribers BUT won't tell us how many watches they've sold.
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In the absence of real data, people always assume the worst, hence all the articles about how Apple Watch is a flop despite the fact that Apple gave plenty of hints as to how many Watches they sold.

There's a good article and analysis about it here: http://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2016/6/29/apple-watch-is-already-a-10-billion-business

It makes sense to keep Apple Watch numbers close to the vest this time (at least until it can stand as another leg) unlike with iPad where they announced initia sales with a megaphone, resulting in large and small competitors stampeding into that space and flooding it with cheap alternatives.
 
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Benjamin Frost said:
I believe that Apple Music and all streaming services are to the long-term detriment of music.

If musicians don't have an incentive to be rewarded, they won't write music. This is why music has been dead since the early 90s. There has been the odd gem, but that's all.

I’ll stick to CDs and downloads to my dying day.
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What nonsense. The highest paid musicians toady are significantly wealthier than their counterparts from 10 or even 20 years ago.

Only crappy artists make music for exorbitant amounts of money. 99% of musicians make next to nothing off of records anyway, and they'd still be writing music even if it was free.
 
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Meeeeeeeh.

So long as you can continue to completely disable and hide every aspect of Apple Music in the redesign, then I'm happy.
 
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Benjamin Frost said:
I believe that Apple Music and all streaming services are to the long-term detriment of music.

If musicians don't have an incentive to be rewarded, they won't write music. This is why music has been dead since the early 90s. There has been the odd gem, but that's all.

I’ll stick to CDs and downloads to my dying day.
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I wasn't aware there were any streaming services (or any digital music options) in the 90s.
 
I want to love Apple Music but I can't. The redesign is the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig to me. They've done nothing to fix the horrible matching Apple Music does with your library (Apple Music mixes up artwork even on files I've purchased from iTunes). I'm running it side by side with You Tube Red and I find it fascinating that Google Play matched all my tracks correctly and Apple Music struggled with a great majority of them. Plus I like how Google play allows me to correct erroneous matches (or if I prefer my version of the song in my library) by uploading my version to the iCloud. I wish Apple Music had this. At this point, I'm leaning more towards keeping the You Tube Red after both trials end.
 
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Music is the same as as focus on Movies TV Shows...

Content for me is always a must, over anything...

If the content is not there, i won't use it.


I don't really use Music app much, but seems everything is moving to that "simple" "Microsoft Exchange 2013" look. Not that it bad,, but it is different.
 
FSMBP said:
The fact that they redesigned just a year after the release doesn't give me a warm & fuzzy feeling about Apple (same with watchOS). It's like they forgot about keeping things simple/streamlined (ie. Scott Forstall/Steve Jobs).
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Yeah, streamlined like the Jobsian MobileMe for example.
 
Still not crazy with Apple Music, even the sound of some tracks are terrible, this will be my last month with
then. I rather keep Spotify and I am not a hater I just can't stand the hole lay out of Apple Music. It should be simple from the beginning......
 
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