probably the same place as dr. Ruth, dr. J, dr. Seuss, doc Holliday, etcetc
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Dr. Dre's 'The Chronic' Also Available Exclusively on Apple Music
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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.
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.
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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It makes no difference really. Apple should tread carefully. Most people don't care that much. An employee of Apple puts his music on Apple only. The horror.
Why, the same place that gave titles to Colonel Sanders, Dr. Funkenstein, and Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk.
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No you can’t. You can play any track that isn’t exclusive.
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.
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.
This particular album doesn't matter, but we're starting to hear a lot of noise about artists making exclusive deals with different streaming providers. The practice in general is bad news.
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
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.
haha.. really?
i wasn't even sure if he was real or fictitious
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yep.. just wiki'd it:
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[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.
I agree. To think that he did not support his own service is so ironic. Wonder what changed his mind now.His own album wasn't on Beats Music? Haha that's just funny.
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.
In the past this was cutting edge music...