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Samsung Shuttering its Milk Music Service in the United States
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I wish tidal wasn't so expensive I'd like to try it with the higher quality. But love apple smart playlist and still think itunes is a pretty good player for sorting and organizing. Hope the ios/android apps gets more of the itunes features. Like give us the itunes view in landscape mode on the larger ios devices? Let us build smart lists in ios. Even better a web based itunes. Dreaming.
"Samsung is shuttering its Milk Music Service in the United States."
So "shuttering" means shutting down? How about that!
So "shuttering" means shutting down? How about that!
My thought exactly. And what a weird name for it.
I agree with just buying music outright; streaming screws over the artist more than ever.
I dunno... prior to July 2011, I did not pay for music at all. I "acquired" by other means... then Spotify came to the USA and the industry started getting $10 per month out of me. Since Apple Music came out, they now get $15 per month out of me. Seems like the artists got screwed more BEFORE streaming existed.
So closing down a company or a service is now called "sun setting"?
Nice euphemism. Just when I thought corporate lingo couldn't get any dumber. The employees who get fired are then "riding into the sunset", I assume?
Nice euphemism. Just when I thought corporate lingo couldn't get any dumber. The employees who get fired are then "riding into the sunset", I assume?
Probably because they thought users would have "fluid" listening. Just a pun/play on words.
Apple Music on my Nexus 6 is typically great, with an occasional hiccup here and there.
Today is pick on Samsung day at MacRumors!
An unusual day considering most people on here are Apple haters. On Android forums trashing Apple is a daily habit though.
In my mind there are two kinds of songs you'd have in your library: A song that sounds good straight away, but fades are a few listens, and a song that sounds okay initially but grows on you. It's kind of like: X-Factor Winner vs All Time Low... one is a flash in the pan, the other has a fan base which has grown over time, organically and will last much longer.
If I buy all my music, then I'm spending money on two songs like they're equal, when they're not. With streaming, the better the song, the more money the artist earns from each user.
Milk Music just uses Slacker Radio library anyway which sucks. Slacker Radio sucks I had it for months but hearing the same songs, many karaoke versions and annoying live tracks made me cancel. Even Play Music has annoying karaoke versions of certain songs which AM actually has the studio versions. Really loving Apple Music which is my only service I am keeping out of all of them.
The only things I miss are that you can't use the 5 star ratings in the Android version and google now voice assistant still doesn't recognize apple music to use voice commands. On a better note it connects to my car bluetooth better than my iphone did.
Reportedly they named it that because it was "fresh and organic".
Huh. I think it might be a cultural thing that has more meaning to Koreans.
Reminds me of back while intercepting North Korean military comms decades ago, we suddenly heard them using a new term every time they established contact with each other:
"The mother's milk is good."
Weird! Was it some kind of special code?? After asking some South Koreans what they thought it meant, we quickly figured out that it was simply the slang equivalent of our own, "I hear you five by five."
No doubt some of our own American product name choices also don't make sense overseas.