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Apple's New Streaming Music Service and Revamped iTunes Radio to Debut Next Week

sw1tcher said:
$10 a month when you can get Spotify and Pandora for free? No thanks.
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Spotify and Pandora suck with their free tiers. Why would anyone want ads interrupting their music sessions is beyond me. Listening to music is an experience and nothing should ever interrupt it. If Netflix had this terrible model, it would be like watching a movie and every 5 seconds an ad pops up or the movie is interrupted. Would you like that? I think not.

I get why people pirate - it's easy and it's free. And the track is now "yours". No ads, no crap. Just add to iTunes and that's it.

But not paying to freely access a streaming service that floods with you with ads every 2 songs? No thanks.
 
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vrillusions said:
To me spotify is a different service. Spotify lets you pick an album and listen to just that album. Similar to (up until recently) Amazon Prime Music. iTunes Radio does the "play music related to (genre, artist, song)" which is how Pandora is setup (and recently Amazon Prime Music added streaming stations). It would be better if Apple went after the Pandora users and left the Spotify people alone, unless this new service will let you pick songs/albums you want to listen to.
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I thought this "new" Apple streaming service was to be more like Spotify where you can choose the songs you want to hear?

Apple already has a radio service... iTunes Radio.
 
japanime said:
I'm going to wait to see what sort of cut Apple will pay musicians. I already know Spotify pays micro-peanuts, which is why I refuse to support that service. Hopefully Apple will take the high road and pay a decent per-play royalty.
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Actually, it's the labels that are paying "micro-peanuts" to their artists. Spotify is bleeding red ink and keeps loosing money if there won't be drastic change in its cost structure. As far as I know every single streaming service is a tech bubble with high valuations with no profit.
 
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I pay Spotify more than $10/month for their premium service and have been for a few years. I'll switch to Apple/Beats-streaming faster than anyone can say turntable if someone invents a tool for importing 2000+ playlists into the Apple thingy.

JeffyTheQuik said:
For those of you complaining about the price, where else can you hear Soft Cel's S*x Dwarf on the 80's Alternative?
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2XtBQlwWYB5K6kiwpKlpTW
 
I say to each his/her own. That's why Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, and Apple have services for your choice. For me Spotify constantly removes favorite tracks b/c of artists restrictions which drives me crazy. I favored it for a reason..... now I have to buy it. My only hope is Apple provides a premium tier for iTunes Radio, less than $9.99/month, to removes ads and give unlimited skips..... $3.99 or $4.99 sounds good to me.
 
The problem I have in general with streaming services is that, whilst it might only be $10/£10 per month now, there's no guarantee it won't ever go up. What happens when it $20 or $30 a month essentially for your whole life to listen to music. It might not seem likely now but I know my satellite subscription has gone up every year and it's now nearly £20 more than it was when I first took it out. At least if I buy an album it's mine for life.
 
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DakotaGuy said:
This is why it will be very important to Apple's success if they can find a way to eliminate those free services. If the free services go away Apple will win.
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So your saying that unless Apple can stop another companies business practices, Apple music will fail. I guess Apple better wind up their lawyers and so what they do best
 
I am excited to see what Apple has cooking, but what concerns me is what is going to happen with iTunes Match. Right now I mostly use Google Music because it's free for me to store 50,000 songs in the cloud and listen to them on any device. That's already better than iTunes Match, plus with All Access you get a full blown Spotify like service attached. This works nice because if All Access doesn't have the song or album I can upload my own and fill in the gaps. I'm not interested in paying money a month for songs or albums that might disappear from time to time. This happened to me on Spotify and Rdio.
 
I just want the new music app for the new look. I'm tired of the album layout through the artist view.
 
sw1tcher said:
AM and FM radio must be robbing from artists too since I can listen to their music for free. And while we're at it, let's include the artists of the tv shows I can pick up and watch for free with my OTA antenna.
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I agree with your sentiments. However, in the cases you describe, the advertisers are paying the freight on that listening. Each spin of the record that goes out over the airwaves is paid for to the publisher. It used to be only the the song writer got a piece of that, not the performer. Which hurts, say, Madonna who doesn't write a lot of her most famous tunes. You hear them all the time, but she doesn't get a piece of that. She does have performing rights. There was a push to change that by performers, dunno how it fared. If there are no advertisers, then the listeners have to pick up the bill.

* FYI: I support artists I like by buying their music (on CD and vinyl because I prefer to own not rent/license the music) ....
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Well technically you just own the piece of plastic or vinyl and are granted a license to use the music on that medium for your personal use. If you opened a Sports Bar and put your personal CD collection on the stereo for the customers, you'd get a visit from the publishers asking for their cut as you don't have a license for public play or business use. Getting a digital copy stored on your own PC/MAC is the same, you just don't get the physical media with it.

FWIW, I would not get a music subscription either. More because I can't stand subscriptions. All those little 'just 1.99 per month!' start to seriously add up when almost EVERYTHING is going to that model. Better just to pay once and have use forever. Or until the disk wears out, or they remaster it again, or until the artist re-records it to get around publishing rights, or whatever... <sigh>.
 
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Mackinjosh said:
The audio quality is fine. And the single ad plays for 15 seconds every 5 or 6 songs. I'll take that hardship for free. There's also no ads if you know how to install adblocker on your browser.
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Gotta love people that want something for nothing. Why should music be free?
 
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I wonder if this service will allow users to save music to storage so I can still rock my low data plan and 128gb phone.
 
besler3035 said:
The minute Apple announces this, I'll sign up...as long as it integrates with my Sonos setup. Would love to go back to an Apple native experience, rather than Spotify.
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I'm with you on this. I don't mind Spotify at all. But if Apple can bring something to the table that pretty much compares to the $10/month tier of Spotify that I pay for now, I'm all in. The fact that all my devices will sync will make the switch worth it IF Apple comes correct.


HenryDJP said:
Spotify's version of "Free" Sucks! The audio quality is reduced, plus you have ads.
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I don't mind free Spotify when I'm at home. But free Spotify on the go is worthless. That's the main reason I pay monthly for it--gotta have on demand, commercial free streaming for the car.
 
If Netflix had this terrible model, it would be like watching a movie and every 5 seconds an ad pops up or the movie is interrupted. Would you like that? I think not.
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Its called Hulu Plus
 
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so im paying $25 a year for iTunes Match and $4 per month for iCloud storage space and now Apple wants another $10/month for a streaming service and I just got an email, $99 for my dev account - how about 1 account, $99/year that covers all of it?
 
WWDC is looking to stink.
Streaming music- bleh (let me buy what I want, Apple can keep their new rapper DJs)
No Apple TV cable- bleh
Maybe Apple TV apps- could be interesting
Homekit- bleh
More Watch nonsense- bleh
ApplePay- bleh
And I'm actually afraid of what they're going to do to OS X and iOS.
 
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bobenhaus said:
If Netflix had this terrible model, it would be like watching a movie and every 5 seconds an ad pops up or the movie is interrupted. Would you like that? I think not.
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Its called Hulu Plus[/QUOTE]

I was literally just about to say that :rolleyes:
 
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