Signs of Apple Music Begin Showing Up in iOS 8.4 Beta Music App

[BeardMan7]

My opinion to iTunes Match and Apple Music:

There are 3 cases…
-with Apple Music AND iTunes Match subscription you’ll be able to upload “none matched” songs to iCloud and nothing is counting against your iCloud storage, because you paid for your iTunes Match subscription.

-you have only an Apple Music subscription, “none matched” songs will count against your iCloud storage and you’ll need to upgrade your storage plan, depending on how many “none matched” songs you have.
(believe me, I have a lot of “none matched” songs, though they’re are listed in the iTunes catalogue, but not purchased at iTunes…e.g.older CD’s etc.)

-you have only an iTunes Match subscription, you can upload your whole music library (till 25.000 songs are reached) to iCloud and everything is ok.

Doesn’t these 3 cases make sense, while Apple is explaining “Apple Music and iTunes Match are independent but complementary.”???

 

[sniffies]

Many seem to think that Apple Music will include the entire iTunes catalogue. False. It's been confirmed by several sources that out of 42M, only 30M will be streamable. Beatles will not be streamable.

 

[invisiblegt]

Where precisely has it been confirmed that the Beatles, or others who do not have their music on competing services, will not be included? All the articles I've read have offered that information as "speculation," or from a "person familiar with the discussions."

 

[natepdx92]

My opinion to iTunes Match and Apple Music:

There are 3 cases…
-with Apple Music AND iTunes Match subscription you’ll be able to upload “none matched” songs to iCloud and nothing is counting against your iCloud storage, because you paid for your iTunes Match subscription.

-you have only an Apple Music subscription, “none matched” songs will count against your iCloud storage and you’ll need to upgrade your storage plan, depending on how many “none matched” songs you have.
(believe me, I have a lot of “none matched” songs, though they’re are listed in the iTunes catalogue, but not purchased at iTunes…e.g.older CD’s etc.)

-you have only an iTunes Match subscription, you can upload your whole music library (till 25.000 songs are reached) to iCloud and everything is ok.

Doesn’t these 3 cases make sense, while Apple is explaining “Apple Music and iTunes Match are independent but complementary.”???

This makes sense. We'll just have to wait and see. I have a huge iTunes library. If I can stream the song with the Apple Music service, I can simply remove the hard copies from my laptop. This will save space and allow me to upload special albums only and not go over the limit.

 

[natepdx92]

Where precisely has it been confirmed that the Beatles, or others who do not have their music on competing services, will not be included? All the articles I've read have offered that information as "speculation," or from a "person familiar with the discussions."

All just rumors. We'll just have to wait and see. Apple states their entire iTunes catalogue will be available.

 

[natepdx92]

Many seem to think that Apple Music will include the entire iTunes catalogue. False. It's been confirmed by several sources that out of 42M, only 30M will be streamable. Beatles will not be streamable.

We'll just have to wait and see. If you really like the Beatles, you would already have the albums. So it makes no difference. Haha.

 

[invisiblegt]

All just rumors. We'll just have to wait and see. Apple states their entire iTunes catalogue will be available.

That's precisely what I've stating. However, other posters on here have been refuting this, unequivocally declaring that the Beatles are not included. I'm hoping that somewhere, someone will have seen an article I have not, or have some sort of Twitter, uh, thing from Tim Cook pointing to the contrary.

Given that we know very little about the catalog itself, a definitive "no" is a bit premature.

 

[BeardMan7]

A 13 million difference should be confirmation enough.

 

[invisiblegt]

And yet, that just lends itself to further speculation. The difference could, in fact, be because Apple is not including karaoke versions of songs in that listing. Or nature sounds. Or edited/explicit versions.

We have absolutely no way to actually confirm any of this until Apple offers clarification, or June 30th. Whichever comes first.

 

[fatboyslick]

Do we yet know how Apple Music works alongside iTunes Match?
Reluctant to pay £10 for Match and £10 for Radio

 

[BeardMan7]

Do we yet know how Apple Music works alongside iTunes Match?
Reluctant to pay £10 for Match and £10 for Radio

No need to pay only for Radio. Radio is for free

 

[sniffies]

We'll just have to wait and see. If you really like the Beatles, you would already have the albums. So it makes no difference. Haha.

Honestly, I couldn't care less about Beatles. What I do wanna know is how many of my favorite songs are amongst the unstreamable 12M?

 

[SMacDuff]

I, for one, hate the "quality" of Spotify's app even when set to 320. It doesn't matter if I use my Westone 4s, my Klisch x10s or whatever. The bass still sounds horrible. Hopefully Apple Music using AAC will be better so I can dump Spotify forever.

 

[Carlanga]

Bad things? I have absolutely no problems with using Family Sharing.

The biggest issue I have w it is that any adult in your family account can use your cc for paying whatever. There are more thjngs wrong w it as well.

 

[WickedMessenger]

If you do this in the UK the app says the pricing is £9.99 and £14.99. Very interesting as Im pretty sure this hasn't been announced / mentioned anywhere yet, only the US pricing.

I would have thought they'd do same as say iOS/OS X developer subscriptions and charge the £ equivalent: £6.50 and £10.00 (ish).

 

[WickedMessenger]

If you do this in the UK the app says the pricing is £9.99 and £14.99. Very interesting as Im pretty sure this hasn't been announced / mentioned anywhere yet, only the US pricing.

Apple's UK site doesn't yet specify prices: https://www.apple.com/uk/music/membership/

whereas the US site does: https://www.apple.com/music/membership/

 

[Manatlt]

This makes sense. We'll just have to wait and see. I have a huge iTunes library. If I can stream the song with the Apple Music service, I can simply remove the hard copies from my laptop. This will save space and allow me to upload special albums only and not go over the limit.

But you can do that already with Match. Just delete the song and you'll be asked if you want to delete the song but keep the song on the cloud so you can still stream/download it later.

 

[Beechy]

Spotify offers the ability for normal / high quality and extreme quality streaming... I hope Apple pulls out all the stops and provide similar options... As playing back sub standard music in the car (which has a high end sound system), or descent headphones sounds awful.

 

[Beechy]

Also, I've got iOS9 on my phone for dev work, but there is no sign of this Apple Music stuff yet... Hopefully it will come with a new seed...

 

[OllyW]

I would have thought they'd do same as say iOS/OS X developer subscriptions and charge the £ equivalent: £6.50 and £10.00 (ish).

Don't forget VAT needs to go on top of that.

 

[PhiLLoW]

Will be interesting to see what price will pop up over here - still no anouncement yet. Pretty sure the offer will be 9,99€ meaning we'll face a premium yet again...

Why? $ vs. € is going to have 1:1 conversion soon. US prices never include taxes, european prices do

 

[rctlr]

Where did you here this?? I'm pretty sure you ca stream unlimited songs on demand and your entire library automatically stored in the cloud. There will probably be a limit for saving songs (you haven't bought) for offline listening.

I think the 25,000 limit is iTunes Match.
I asked a friendly Apple Store person, and they don't seem to know whats going on.
The info on the music site says library uploads, matches all, and works alongside iTunes Match. If you have music the iTunes match is redundant in my eyes.

It all depends on what you want :
- a $25/y (2/m) iTunes match service accommodating just 25,000 tracks of your library, and streaming of it
or
- a $10/m iTunes match which accommodates your whole library and streaming of it AND apple streaming catalogue (not Apple Whole Music Catalog)

I think Beats1 Radio is free for everyone regardless of an music subscription.


I've also heard that the first three months freebie - no royalties go to the artists you play.

 

[PhiLLoW]

Can I use family sharing when everyone has his own icloud/itunes account and everyone uses his own credit card to pay for his stuff?

 

[BMcCoy]

Will tax be added to the 9.99/14.99 in the US?

 

[patent10021]

I'm asking a serious question can most folks distinguish between 256 and 320?

You said most so the answer is no.