Streams are up with spotify like services, people like to chose what they want to stream in 2013
iTunes radio will be a flop out the gate
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Digital Music Streams Up 24% in 2013 Ahead of iTunes Radio Launch
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Streams are up with spotify like services, people like to chose what they want to stream in 2013
iTunes radio will be a flop out the gate
Pirating has made me re-structure how I pay for music.
I pirate loads, if I don't like it I'll delete it, if I like it I'll buy it, and if I really like it I'll buy it and go see them live.
It's a near-perfect system. Crap music get's no money, good music gets some money, and great music gets even more money.
If I'm purchasing music I'll always check whether the band/musician has their own store, if they have I'll buy it direct from there. At least that ensures they get a larger slice of the pie.
I've always thought that being paid for music should be graded on talent and not popularity, and this is the way I perpetuate that little theory.
I pirate loads, if I don't like it I'll delete it, if I like it I'll buy it, and if I really like it I'll buy it and go see them live.
It's a near-perfect system. Crap music get's no money, good music gets some money, and great music gets even more money.
If I'm purchasing music I'll always check whether the band/musician has their own store, if they have I'll buy it direct from there. At least that ensures they get a larger slice of the pie.
I've always thought that being paid for music should be graded on talent and not popularity, and this is the way I perpetuate that little theory.
So if you hear a song on the radio or Music TV, you are seriously justifying the need to pirate it first to see if you like it...?
I am sure that if you keep telling yourself that enough times, you may even start to believe it. I would have had more respect for you, if you just said you were a pirate and did not give a hoot.
Total BS
So if you hear a song on the radio or Music TV, you are seriously justifying the need to pirate it first to see if you like it...?
I am sure that if you keep telling yourself that enough times, you may even start to believe it. I would have had more respect for you, if you just said you were a pirate and did not give a hoot.
Total BS
Whatever dude. I don't understand what you're saying about the radio bit, I don't really listen to radio. I go to at least one gig a month plus festivals too.
My music collection is all paid for despite me pirating more music than most.
Being Canadian makes this service pretty much useless to me. But while I probably won't get to use it anytime soon, I still see some flaws in it. To my knowledge the only streaming service I can actually use in Canada is Rdio (which I would highly recommend to all my fellow compatriots out there) and the best feature it has is offline listening. If I have to be actively downloading all the music I would listen to from iRadio, my data and battery usage would increase exponentially. Surely I can't be the only one that likes the idea of offline streaming.
Sorry. iTunes Radio is basically a way for Apple to sell more downloads.
But don't be disappointed. I use Spotify and it's really good. I've saved a lot of money by using it over purchasing iTunes albums.
You are mistaken.
In the Music Industry, there are three tiers where money goes:
- Infrastructure Owners = Music Labels who own the copyright to the performed song recording.
- Content Creators = Song Writers who owns the copyright to the printed song.
- Performers = Musicians who are employees of the Music Labels.
If an individual (such as Prince) exists at all three levels, he or she makes the most money.
If an individual writes the song, he or she gets a predefined cut of the money.
If an individual is a performer, then he gets paid by the Music Label one time for the performance of the song, but not for any further use of the recording of the song.
In the age of digital music and streamed music, it is very easy for individual to simply create their own music label, write the song, perform and record the song, then sell it themselves through iTunes and other venues.
Obviously the larger labels have more power since they have the money to actually advertise and market world-wide the music so they can sell even more copies than the smaller labels. But that is true in any industry.
If performers complain about how little money they make, then get smarter and move up to and include the higher paying income tiers. And if you are in all three, you make the most money.
Apple's iTunes Radio pays pretty well. If an album's songs are heard by about 600 people, it makes the same in streaming fees as selling one album on iTunes. With 250 million iTunes accounts, this means the possibility of earning the equivalent of selling over 400,000 albums if every iTunes account holder simply just heard the album's songs once on iTunes Radio, more so if they heard it twice or more.
i also started streaming music this year, this growth is good for apple's iradio, i'm eager to get my hands on the app.
Streaming music
I totally get this, I stream music all the time, I don't remember my life before streaming. I listen to music everywhere (I use Torch Music) and since it's synced with my phone I have workout playlists and whatever.
I totally get this, I stream music all the time, I don't remember my life before streaming. I listen to music everywhere (I use Torch Music) and since it's synced with my phone I have workout playlists and whatever.
I am so looking forward to this because as they showed in the demo, you can search and play any single song or whole album and not have to buy it. this beats Pandora and Spotify and its free for iTunes Match subscribers of which I am one.
The only other service I pay for is SiriusXM. I cancelled my Google all access once I heard what Apple had planned for this and I would get it with ITunes Match.
The only other service I pay for is SiriusXM. I cancelled my Google all access once I heard what Apple had planned for this and I would get it with ITunes Match.
I actually buy more music when I stream (discovery). Otherwise, I am content listening to my library of thousands of songs on Shuffle.