Because the percentage of customers that would actually pay extra for this is negligible in the grand scheme. Most consumers are stuck in a "good enough" mindset, and AAC is good enough for them.
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Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits to 100,000 Tracks
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Because the percentage of customers that would actually pay extra for this is negligible in the grand scheme. Most consumers are stuck in a "good enough" mindset, and AAC is good enough for them.
Indeed it is perspective. I feel after paying this much for a premium phone like we do, we shouldn't have to also buy more storage right out of the gates. 5GB is stupid these days. Just like a 16GB iPhone. Surely you understand that.
Agreed!!! I tried 3 times to set up with my 50k library. Every single time it messed my playlists, deleted the songs from my phone and kept giving me errors. I'm tired of this and will be using only the streaming service. The only reason I don't cancel it is my son who has a smaller library and managed to sync his. Other than that, a piece of junk IMO
Shame Apple Music is such a buggy mess.i would love to have my library and streaming in the cloud. But the bugs in iTunes alone—e.g. Continually asking me for a purchase password even though I set the option to store it—reminds me not to trust apple's offering. (The many comments on social media reinforce this view of serious quality issues.)
You missed the point completely.
There are two types of Apple Fans
1> The type that loves great products and sees the potential of a great company but are also reasonable and know how to think
2> The ones that blindly follow and agree with everything apple does like it was some sort of religion.
Dont be the latter. I hate the latter.
After purchasing a $1100 phone you should get 50GB for free. Nickel and diming a customer willing to shell out that kind of cash for your products is insulting.
I also think AppleCare+ should be free. These are the kinds of way to give back to a public who has made you the most successful company in the history of the world.
Being greedy will work (and IS working). But only for a time.
I can't wait till the car comes out and they try to up-charge it. Thats going to be funny. Its easy to splurge a few hundo on a watch, a phone, etc. A person in the market for a 35K car will not splurge 5-10k on something else. Cars are different. (obviously the rich are the exceptions)
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Not a big fan of iTunes Match. It's glitchy and has wrecked my iTunes library on at least two separate occasions.
Apple Music though is phenomenal. The depth of the library is unparalleled and the recommendations it makes just blows my mind. Apple is simply better than everyone else at music subscriptions. I can't see Spotify being around by the end of next year.
Apple Music though is phenomenal. The depth of the library is unparalleled and the recommendations it makes just blows my mind. Apple is simply better than everyone else at music subscriptions. I can't see Spotify being around by the end of next year.
I like Apple Music quite a bit, but Spotify is going to be around for quite awhile. Apple still needs a decent desktop client, a web client, 3rd party integration (apps like Pacemaker), shared playlists...
They're off to a good start, but it will take them a few years to catch up to Spotify completely.
All these people on here acting like they actually owned this many tracks or more legally? really?
Moaning that Apple needs to up the limit..it’s like reading how the rats in the sewers want more access to the streets.
Lets be brutally honest! No one has ever purchased that many songs in any format?
Apple match on this scale is just legitimising the thieves and scum bags
So now you can pay a flat fee for Apples services while not paying the writers of the music originally you can keep your stolen music sitting in your Matched collection having invested nothing into the artists pockets and possibly never ever playing 80% of that massive collection ever again.
All of you commenting about the size of your music libraries show your true colours.
Thieving on any level points to a scum bag every time.
Just buy the songs you want as boasting about the size of you catalogue is the same as promoting that you are actually a thief gone legal via Apple but a thief none the less.
…Happy moaning to you all!
Moaning that Apple needs to up the limit..it’s like reading how the rats in the sewers want more access to the streets.
Lets be brutally honest! No one has ever purchased that many songs in any format?
Apple match on this scale is just legitimising the thieves and scum bags
So now you can pay a flat fee for Apples services while not paying the writers of the music originally you can keep your stolen music sitting in your Matched collection having invested nothing into the artists pockets and possibly never ever playing 80% of that massive collection ever again.
All of you commenting about the size of your music libraries show your true colours.
Thieving on any level points to a scum bag every time.
Just buy the songs you want as boasting about the size of you catalogue is the same as promoting that you are actually a thief gone legal via Apple but a thief none the less.
…Happy moaning to you all!
Spotify has close to something like 100 million active users and you think it won''t be around in 13 months? OKIE DOKIE!
Occasionally I think about pruning my music library down, but then I think "why bother."
25k tracks at around 3 minutes apiece = 1250 hours = 52 days or so. If you commute two hours a day you could hear it all in 625 days. If you listen a whole lot, like all day, it wouldn't take long to plow through it all.
It's better than the radio, because it's all the music you like.
As a note, once you start hitting archive.org it's way easy to get over the limit. Sure you can stream from archive.org, but shows go away too...so it's safer to stash your own copy somewhere.
so happy about this! I can now go ahead and re-add all the music I had to remove before, I am a DJ and need to have a wide array of music for all events.
"After purchasing a $1100 phone you should get 50GB for free."
Why? Should Apple also throw in a couple of free cases and some free iTunes cards? Maybe some headphones and a speaker? And free AppleCare, of course.
"Being greedy will work (and IS working)."
I don't understand. Why in the world would you support a company with your hard-earned dollars that you believe is so "greedy?" There are a lot of smartphone choices out there. Why not choose one from a company that is not "greedy," one that you believe in and will give you a lot of free stuff?
"II can't wait till the car comes out and they try to up-charge it. Thats going to be funny. Its easy to splurge a few hundo on a watch, a phone, etc. A person in the market for a 35K car will not splurge 5-10k on something else. Cars are different."
On a new car? Are you serious?
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Assume the average album has 15 tracks, he has been buying 1 album everyday for 91 years.
At about a dollar a track to buy music anywhere, how did you come about getting so much music? How many of those songs did you legitimately pay for? I call: THEIF there Napster/torrent boy.
Its really bemusing how you never got the idea that I was trying to put out on the table. If they make changes to the free iCloud storage plans, Apple will also automatically increase the storage for the people who are paying for it. Here is a simple example for you. The current free 5 GB gets increased to lets say 15 GB and the 50 GB plan for $1 gets increased to 60 GB.
I never really thought I would have to explain this as I was pretty obvious in the first post. It was a sheer case of common sense.
There's the problem though, the world is not build around you.
Technically, the only thing that most users need is an increased softcap for database links from user's accounts to Apple's own music backend servers, so barely any additional storage needed. Only for songs that have to be uploaded and are not part of Apple's database actually require more space (which is not the norm).
So, yes, it's sustainable and actually pretty cheap for Apple to implement. That's why you don't see any iTunes Match improvements, they rather increase the limit before christmas without any additional work involved to get more customers.
Sounds pretty sustainable for my taste.
I think his favourite song is called "Trollollo"
25000 x 4 [minutes] = 100000 minutes of music
100000 / 60 = 1666.66666 hours
1666.66666 hours / 24 = 69.4 days of music
Unless you're a fruit fly (they don't live long) it's completely possible to listen to more than 25k unique tracks, especially if you like more than one genre of music. (For me: synthpop, R&B, 90s house, stadium house, trance, deep house, garage/dubstep, drum'n'bass/jungle, easy listening, new age, progressive rock, trip-hop, many sub-genres of metal with emphasis on Viking and thrash metal, girlgroups, French pop, electronica... If you play 25 tracks on shuffle on my iTunes you'll probably discover music genres you didn't know existed.)
Also some of us are old enough to remember that streaming didn't always exist as an option.
Considering you are sleeping one third of the day it would take you only 210 days to listen to your library if you had absolutely nothing else to do...
Must be great to have it ALL figured out! You're full of it. I have well over 25,000 LEGALLY PURCHASED tracks. Some people love music. Some people collect. Take your know-it-all attitude elsewhere.
As for investing nothing in the artists' pockets...that's what streaming services do.
What is this, 1999? People have been "stealing music" for 16 years and you're still clutching your pearls over it?
Apple built an empire on "stolen music." Do you think people would pay $400 for an iPod if they had to pay for the music they put on it?
Unreal.
If you're wondering why someone might have 100k+ tracks, it's because sometimes people enjoy things differently than you do. And that's okay.
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I guess this implies they will never fix home sharing:
http://www.mcelhearn.com/how-i-would-fix-itunes-part-12-fix-home-sharing/
This bug is around since iOS6; it worked with iOS5 - but only because I had not (yet) imported all my 900-disk CD collection. I t means I have to either use Match or go back to my two SONY CDP-CX400 (2x 400+ 1x 200) jubeboxes! This is annoying to no end.
http://www.mcelhearn.com/how-i-would-fix-itunes-part-12-fix-home-sharing/
This bug is around since iOS6; it worked with iOS5 - but only because I had not (yet) imported all my 900-disk CD collection. I t means I have to either use Match or go back to my two SONY CDP-CX400 (2x 400+ 1x 200) jubeboxes! This is annoying to no end.