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Eddy Cue Talks Apple Music Subscriptions as Initial Three-Month Free Trials End

Apple Music worked fine for me. The UI has a lot going on so it took some time figure out all of the hidden shortcuts. If I didn't already have Google Music with the early adopter pricing of $7.99/month I would go with Apple Music for the iOS integration.

For those saying they don't see the value in Apple Music for $10/month, that is not an Apple Music thing but a streaming music thing in general. Some people are happy with their current library and that's fine, but it is not a reflection on Apple Music.
 
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Cancelled my auto-renew after a couple of days. Apple Music is so amazing buggy - streams on my Macbook, doesn't stream on my Mac mini (just skip through tracks). Whole albums appear and disappear from my phone - on one occasion right while I was browsing my library, one second it was there, the other it wasn't. Offline mode only works half the time, and toggling iCloud music/music on phone options is patchy as well.

I'm glad some people have got it to work, but I haven't. Every time I try to use it, it's a headache. Like some other people reporting here, I spent a 3 hours on the phone with Apple Care to try and sort out the problems, but nothing worked.

I have an iTunes Match sub - I'm kinda hoping when Apple Music vanishes from my iTunes account, it doesn't screw that up!
 
FightTheFuture said:
Free with commercials and limited skips, this is the big difference. Nothing pulls you out of a listening experience then Enterprise commercials in the middle of a playlist. How is the catalog more diversified? They are similar catalogs ranging 30 million tracks with exclusives on both sides.
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Being from Europe and growing up in the 60s gives me a different musical wishlist.
Spotify is European and has out of print music (with scratches from somebody's turntable wrecked album:)
Apple is US centric and thus does not have these.
 
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Thunderhawks said:
Being from Europe and growing up in the 60s gives me a different musical wishlist.
Spotify is European and has out of print music (with scratches from somebody's turntable wrecked album:)
Apple is US centric and thus does not have these.
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I find loads of European music on Apple Music.
 
HenryDJP said:
Spotify is not FREE. Don't put out misinformation. It requires putting up with annoying ads and you can't just pick the song you want to hear and play it instantly anytime.
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Well, I disagree FREE to me means I am not paying anything.
The fact that there are ads or stoppages are bothersome, but not enough to make me
pay for ad free service.
I am not a big streaming guy anyway and prefer to have my music on my iPhone or Mac.

So, FREE is the best price for what I do.

Go back
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I find loads of European music on Apple Music.
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Not my point. Go and try to find some 60's bands or artists or one time wonder songs.
They do not have them at all or as many as Spotify.
Spotify is Swedish run, so they are more in tune with Europe.
Apple is US run, so they are more in tune with USA.
 
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I don't get the data roaming stuff.. Switch to T-mobile and never have data roaming....

As to Apple Music, yeah, UI is NOT great.. Me Thinks MOG had the best UI ;) Big thumb nails, 6 big boxes... sweet.... I concur, Apple music has been quite buggy, however, the 3 month trial was Apples way of using us for R&D. One thing tho, I haven't seen any changes since day one. Also wondering when apple music will work with sonos... breaking point for me.. heading back to spotify...
 
Rogifan said:
Clearly he has too much under his responsibility. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think Cook needs to hire an SVP to oversee all of Apple's cloud business, and throw Siri and Maps in there too. Then Eddy can focus all of his time on Music, iTunes/App Store, TV and Pay.

Oh and Apple also needs to hire someone to oversee all of developer relations. Let them be responsible for developer relations, app review, evangelism, etc. Let them be the outward face to the developer community and charge them with ensuring iOS and OS X are platforms people want to develop on and develop for first. Right now this stuff is scattered all over the place (Federighi's team is responsible for APIs, Schiller's team has developer relations/app review, Cue's team is responsible for App Store etc). There should be one leader that's essentially the app "czar" at Apple.
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Despite not agreeing with 99% of what you say, here you make sense. IMO, Apple probably feels that changing that up would be seen as a "negative restructuring" by everyone else (i.e. markets, etc), but something needs done to spread it out a bit.

Why can't you just make sense more often? ;)
 
If Apple sort out the fact that Apple Music messes up most of your existing album artwork then I'd happily sign up to a family subscription..........
 
Just as soon as Sonos support is worked out. Then I'll probably switch from Spotify but untill then I can't justify it...
 
AppleScruff1 said:
No you wouldn't. :p
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Um, considering I was a Spotify subscriber prior to the Apple Music trial yes I would. :rolleyes:

JackANSI said:
Despite not agreeing with 99% of what you say, here you make sense. IMO, Apple probably feels that changing that up would be seen as a "negative restructuring" by everyone else (i.e. markets, etc), but something needs done to spread it out a bit.

Why can't you just make sense more often? ;)
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How do you define "making sense"? Constantly being an Apple basher?
 
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I ended up mine as well. It is simply impossible to setup family account and make sure my wife's song don't show on my iPhone and vis-versa. We have totally different music taste and I can't stand her song in my music.

too bad
 
i cancelled and went back to spotify. Actually didn't even use much after few weeks. UI is quite pain and there is nothing better than in Spotify.

I'll bet $5 that Apple Music will be shut down in five years.
 
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I was very excited when I saw it included music videos. Then I signed up and saw the music video selection was very limited compared to what's on iTunes. Very unfortunate, will not keep the subscription.

Music videos are hard to come by legally. Other then iTunes, there is very little effort to sell them to the public. And even iTunes is haphazard. There could be 5 music videos from a particular album and iTunes will have 2 of them....and not even the "big hit" one.
 
Am I the only one who likes Apple Music? I cancelled my iTunes Match and use AM solely from day on. I tried Spotify but can't stand the ads. If I had to pay for premium, I would go for AM, and I do not regret it for many reasons, mainly the integration. I love how easy it is to just search any songs that pop up in my brain and voila, it plays in a fraction of seconds. I am tired of book-keeping my thousands songs library. Let Apple do it for me.
 
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ksuyen said:
Am I the only one who likes Apple Music? I cancelled my iTunes Match and use AM solely from day on. I tried Spotify but can't stand the ads. If I had to pay for premium, I would go for AM, and I do not regret it for many reasons, mainly the integration. I love how easy it is to just search any songs that pop up in my brain and voila, it plays in a fraction of seconds. I am tired of book-keeping my thousands songs library. Let Apple do it for me.
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It is a good service if you were used to paying that kind of price already. And I fully agree with the integration.

But if you already have a healthy size music library, then iTunes Match is significantly cheaper. Plus if your tastes are outside the mainstream genres then you're going to be out of luck with most streaming services. Where as iTunes Match will be able to stream anything I can give it.

I did find Spotify's ability to share playlists to be a very nice touch.
 
westrock2000 said:
It is a good service if you were used to paying that kind of price already. And I fully agree with the integration.

But if you already have a healthy size music library, then iTunes Match is significantly cheaper. Plus if your tastes are outside the mainstream genres then you're going to be out of luck with most streaming services. Where as iTunes Match will be able to stream anything I can give it.

I did find Spotify's ability to share playlists to be a very nice touch.
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I hardly listen to the songs that I own anymore. I stop buying songs/albums too since I had Apple Music. I see no point to buy them if I could have a bigger collections on my fingertip. Besides I can always download offline versions and create my own playlists as many as I want. iTunes also has ability to share playlists.
 
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