You can download the songs to your device when on Wi-Fi and listen to them while at work... It is not rocket science.
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Apple Paying 0.2 Cents for Each Song Streamed Free During Apple Music Trial Period
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You can download the songs to your device when on Wi-Fi and listen to them while at work... It is not rocket science.
I think the biggest boon to the lesser known artists is that this service will help them get discovered. I've found a lot of music on Pandora that I wouldn't have found on my own. Also, artists who aren't well known aren't getting rich off of downloads, either.
The amounts paid, the Taylor swift jokes, could not care less. From next week, going to give the service a go and compare it to google music and spotify. If it's very good, I'll consider a subscription, if it worse than the others, I'm not interested . Given the WWDC presentation, I'm really not sure what to expect other than iTunes with ping again...
Maybe that song or artist just isn't very good.
The artist can supplement his or her income by performing on street corners or playing bat mitzvah and birthday parties. If the music is good, those kids at the parties will start streaming the songs, and they'll tell their friends about them, and the song will go viral, kind of like Flappy Bird.
That's 500 plays to get to 99 cents! I can't honestly say I've played any song 500 times in my life. Maybe if I'm still rocking Pretty Hate Machine when I'm 90.
Interesting reading from this thread is how hard done the Americans are with the data plans. 2GB a month.... Damn! Just of of curiosity, how much is a plan that comes with 2GB of data, unlimited texts, and say 600 minutes each month of talk time?
My wife and I are on a plan with AT&T for unlimited texts, unlimited talk (I think), and only 3GB of shared data between the 2 of us. My bill is $160 a month. $15 for every GB over 3GB.
Edit to add: last month was the first month we ever went over our data. Coincidentally, it was also the month I signed up for Spotify.
Very true! Here in the UK a few networks have All You Can Eat Data, (not to mention t-Mobile in the US already doing so). 2GB really isn't a lot. So people need to spend a little more, surely they're cheap cheap contracts?
But yeah, I'm in the UK with 5GB a month.
Unfortunately, I have. I've just gone in to my Top 25 most played on my old MacBook. God dammit I used to REALLY Third Eye Blind!
It's still possible to sync music files from iTunes to iOS. Use that if you don't have the bandwidth or data to stream... On top of that Apple Music allows you to make files available offline. Do you understand those things? And just because you have an issue doesn't mean those with 10 GB of data each month like myself have to be limited to storing music locally.
Actually it does. I can connect to my work's Wi-Fi for any personal use. And in stations, on trains, metros, trams, buses, bars, coffee shops, etc.
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Exactly, as long Taylor Swift doesn't approve, we can tell if this is good thing or bad thing
Generous in relation to FM radio which averages out to about a tenth of that at best (per listener, per play).
Apple's been accused of not paying ARTISTS during the trial period, but they're still not?
The LABELS will be getting 0.2 cents per play now, and who knows how much of that they're going to give to artists?
As always with labels (who pretend to stand up for artists), they will pay peanuts. Look at the Spotify case with Big Machine and you'll see
The LABELS will be getting 0.2 cents per play now, and who knows how much of that they're going to give to artists?
As always with labels (who pretend to stand up for artists), they will pay peanuts. Look at the Spotify case with Big Machine and you'll see
Assuming this is like every other streaming service, you understand that you can download tracks to the device while you are on wifi right?
Ehhh who gives a **** what she approves? Oh yeah apparently everybody including Apple.
And if I get a family plan for $5 more I can rake in nearly six times that amount. $175 a month, rockstar!!!
So do I fail math or is 0.2 cents mean 5 streams per penny? Seems about right at that rate. You have to think about that 1 stream is one person listening to the song (we'll assume that for this). If the same song was played on a popular radio station 1 time, it could have an audience of 10's of thousands on the one play.