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A 15+ year old album being on Apple only is ....bad for everyone?
This is what I was thinking.
An album that is available to purchase almost anywhere is exclusive to Apple Music. Tell you what, I’ll just buy the album or specific tracks and make sure they are permanently on my device and forego Apple Muzak.
 
Slightly off topic, but can someone please explain to me or point me to an article as to what exactly the difference is — between the current Apple Radio and the upcoming music service, and as to why it's worth $10/month?
 
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No, the concern is that each streaming service will have exclusives, which will lead to no streaming service actually having everything on it.
This. I remember being as annoyed as hell when I had an xBox and Playstation came out with an exclusive I wanted. Well guess what Sony, I wasn’t about to spend £00s of pounds to get it.
 
Slightly off topic, but can someone please explain to me or point me to an article as to what exactly the difference is — between the current Apple Radio and the upcoming music service, and as to why it's worth $10/month?

Apple Music is an on-demand music streaming service. You can play any track (that isn't exclusive to another service) you want, on demand, for $10/month.
 
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This has nothing to do with if you like Dr Dre and you think is music is either legendary or utter garbage.

It has to do with Apple Music "exclusives" which is going to make Spotify start trying to do the same, then maybe Google gets into the game and then there is Google exclusives and then maybe Panadora gets someone exclusives.

Next thing you know 60% of the music you actually like (not Dr Dre) will be on one service, 20% Here, 15% there, 5% somewhere else. Or entire record label exclusives which will be even worse.

So if you want it all you have to subscribe to multiple services which #1 is inconvenient #2 costly.

These exclusive deals are only gonna get worse, this might only be a small shot fired.
I mean its a 20 year old gangster rap album. But it's meaning is far greater in the direction things will be headed, I am afraid.
 
not the biggest fan of the fact that streaming services are getting into the exclusives game, or of Dre himself (considering he's done some pretty shady things in the past before becoming an entrepreneur) BUT the responses to this post (and for that matter almost every post about Apple Music and artists) are kind of funny. it's 75% cranky old whites soapboxing about what they do and don't consider real music. cut that out
 
probably the same place as dr. Ruth, dr. J, dr. Seuss, doc Holliday, etcetc
do they bug you too?

Yeah, doc Holliday was a dentist, with a practice in the beginning .... You insult him with these other fakes !!!!
 
Yeah, doc Holliday was a dentist, with a practice in the beginning .... You insult him with these other fakes !!!!
And Dr. Seuss was studying for a PhD in English, but his future wife encouraged him to pursue cartooning instead.
 
Yeah, doc Holliday was a dentist, with a practice in the beginning .... You insult him with these other fakes !!!!
haha.. really?
i wasn't even sure if he was real or fictitious

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yep.. just wiki'd it:

wikipedia said:
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp. He was a Deputy U.S. Marshal during and after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.[1]

At age 20, Holliday earned a degree in dentistry from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery.

[edit2] neat how the wiki links stay hot when copy/pasting from there.
 
With exclusives, Apple isn't doing anything that isn't already done with major CD releases that have retailer exclusives with bonus tracks that aren't on any other CD. For example, Elton John's The Diving Board CD had a regular edition CD, Amazon exclusive CD, Best Buy exclusive CD, Target exclusive CD and a Walmart exclusive CD.
 
His own album wasn't on Beats Music? Haha that's just funny. :D
I agree. To think that he did not support his own service is so ironic. Wonder what changed his mind now.

I love music and prefer to download and own my own stuff. I say this only because I am not that into the whole streaming service thing and so do not have a point of reference and must therefore ask -- If these deals are only exclusive for a month or three, will people really sign up just to hear the music sooner versus waiting until it is available somewhere else? I ask because when I worked as a DJ (don't ask it was a long time ago) I had noticed that sometimes I got a song that I played in the club for 6 months before it even hit the radio. So waiting a little until the exclusivity runs out doesn't seem a major problem.
 
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