Currently in the process of backing up my Match libarary and completely deleiting it from iTunes, so that I might be able to use Apple Music for streaming only.
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Trent Reznor Shares his Thoughts on Apple Music: 'The Experience is What Matters'
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Yuck, i get the subscription model..offline mode etc...but I'm reading alot of Matched songs are DRM now too.
Yeah its overtly convoluted - especially on mobile and the desktop version is so cluttered.
When they're in the same App, they are.
When Apple Music controls the Contents of iTunes, yes its the same thing...Apple just has a terrible way of creating that transparency and properly managing two separate but somewhat equal things
Ah no. Everything about this, no. User Experience is how someone feels about something. It's not a trick, or a manipulation. You can design for a user experience, and you can design great UI to help facilitate that, but to say that you set out to design a user experience, that's poor, so people linger, is about the silliest thing I've ever heard.
At best, it's a terrible gamble. At worst, it's *****, as this is.
At best, it's a terrible gamble. At worst, it's *****, as this is.
Some of us understand. Apple Music is a completely different deal. People just want to complain about their free service.
Not great so far, and I am really trying to like it, but it's still a long way behind Spotify in ease of use and usability.
I think they will lose a lot of people after the free trial unless it makes some very large steps.
I think they will lose a lot of people after the free trial unless it makes some very large steps.
It's not purely a recommendation service (I hope). I want it to play a mixture of stuff I already enjoy and stuff I haven't heard before in the radio / for you sections, I don't think that's an unusual expectation. It would then serve a similar function to a traditional radio station. This is what Spotify and last.fm do - Apple Music seems too heavy on the unfamiliar, maybe that's cool but it's not as enjoyable.
They still haven't fixed the major flaw..sound quality.
Sadly, the sound quality approaches a transistor radio at best..
Its not enough for Eddy "karaoke" Cue requesting improved masters from recoed companies ..With improved compression techniques, there are no excuses for lossy 256k AAC ..
The Apple Music app has a polished look and feel although the sound is just awful.
At this stage, I'll only use it as a vehicle to audition new albums.
Sadly, the sound quality approaches a transistor radio at best..
Its not enough for Eddy "karaoke" Cue requesting improved masters from recoed companies ..With improved compression techniques, there are no excuses for lossy 256k AAC ..
The Apple Music app has a polished look and feel although the sound is just awful.
At this stage, I'll only use it as a vehicle to audition new albums.
You need to use Tidal then. But honestly, unless you have some HD800s or something, you won't notice much difference between 256 kbps AAC (which isn't bad at all) and FLAC.
Should be pretty obvious more money does not equal better music.
I've never liked any streaming service I've used, but I use them because otherwise I would have to spend ~$800-1000 to get 700 something songs in my library. It's easier to just pay for a service then to shell out that money or try to torrent everything.
I used Spotify because it was the best, but I really didn't enjoy it that much. Mostly the fact that it didn't integrate with the iPhone.
I still have some issues with Apple Music, but I totally agree that there's a great deal of more "Artist Interaction" and I'm excited to see what Connect can do. Beats 1, while often a hit or miss with what is played, is really a fun experience. I love it! Apple Music is definitely the best streaming service so far, and honestly the software is 10x better than what any other service offers, but there's still room for improvement. I'm excited to see what's next!
I used Spotify because it was the best, but I really didn't enjoy it that much. Mostly the fact that it didn't integrate with the iPhone.
I still have some issues with Apple Music, but I totally agree that there's a great deal of more "Artist Interaction" and I'm excited to see what Connect can do. Beats 1, while often a hit or miss with what is played, is really a fun experience. I love it! Apple Music is definitely the best streaming service so far, and honestly the software is 10x better than what any other service offers, but there's still room for improvement. I'm excited to see what's next!
I didn't say poor I said convoluted -- the twisted winding maze meaning.
Reznor expressed a desire to not have software that "delivered assests". There is a way to display and share the music with just sterile efficient lists to deliver assests which I think he is against. I think they opted for an interface that feels dense, full of artist updates, album art, drop downs, tons of options for sharing / discovery and the live radio station for a shared cultural experience which isn't so common these days within asynchronous content on demand. There is purposeful intent to increase cognitive load and make it seem jam packed with twists and turns. That feels exciting like a show with 5 story arcs interweaving. That caters to the two friends in study hall sharing a left and right earbud queuing up what's next after what's next. It does all this while preserving the dead simple option for the guy driving who just wants to focus on the road holds down the button for Siri and asks for a song.
Apple Music is for young people -- they want to be cool and relevant again on music which Spotify snatched while Apple was napping. Dad who is concerned about quality already has the lossless Aja album ripped into iTunes.
I had this message until I signed up for the trial. So I guess that means even the radio isn't free?
I've disliked the spotify UI since day one. How many times do I have to click back, back, back, ok now I can search, click back, click my music, click album, etc.
(I meant tap not click but don't wanna edit all those)
Apple Music took me a few minutes to figure out but it's almost identical to the Music app that was on 8.3 so I find it very familiar and I get to what I want with far less taps.
The cloud music library, while not confusing, just surprised me. I feel like they do a poor job of explaining their cloud services.
Basically, an Apple Music subscription gives you iTunes Match. I set it all up last night and it has worked flawlessly for me.
My entire music collection is on all my devices and I've seriously been loving Beats 1.
Checked out the Aligator Hour tonight and it was great. St Vincent's mix tape show yesterday on my drive home was tops as well. They are putting standard radio to shame. And I couldn't be happier about it. Bravo!
(I meant tap not click but don't wanna edit all those)
Apple Music took me a few minutes to figure out but it's almost identical to the Music app that was on 8.3 so I find it very familiar and I get to what I want with far less taps.
The cloud music library, while not confusing, just surprised me. I feel like they do a poor job of explaining their cloud services.
Basically, an Apple Music subscription gives you iTunes Match. I set it all up last night and it has worked flawlessly for me.
My entire music collection is on all my devices and I've seriously been loving Beats 1.
Checked out the Aligator Hour tonight and it was great. St Vincent's mix tape show yesterday on my drive home was tops as well. They are putting standard radio to shame. And I couldn't be happier about it. Bravo!
Um, Forbes would beg to differ:
- Katy Perry: $135M
- Garth Brooks: $90M
- Taylor Swift: $80M
- The Eagles: $73.5M
- Justin Timberlake: $63.5M
- Fleetwood Mac: $59.5M
- Rolling Stones: $57.5M
- Elton John: $53.5M
- Paul McCartney: $51.5M
- The list goes on...
If almost $30 Million per year isn't enough to get them creative juices flowing, I don't know what is.
You blame the music industry a lot, but you can't. The music industry is just that; an industry. A Business. They don't churn out crappy pop music and force it down people's throats; the people lap up crappy pop music, so to earn more money, they churn out more. It's just that simple.
Besides, there's more than enough quality music being produced these days (tracks from the aforementioned Trent Reznor being among the best still, in my opinion), you just have to dig a little deeper to find it and you have to be willing to go to new places, musically. Maybe Connect will help with that.
This guy just said there hasn't really been any quality music is TWENTY years.
Yep. Your opinion is null and void.
I agree! Even after tagging just a couple of albums on regular (ripped CD's) playlist on the iPhone, I get really nice playlists offered. Better than any suggestion I ever got on Spotify.
Sound quality of Apple Music is great out of the box. Standard Spotify settings suck, especiallly the volume leveling.
And then the library is a bit more extensive than Spotify (but stlll no (Smog)
).Would I pay for Spotify? No. Would I pay for Apple Music? I might, If I didn’t get Spotify for free with my ISP already.
They are connected though. Looks what happens to iTunes when some MR members have tried using Apple Music.
Apple Music / iCloud Music Library has made a right old mess of my iTunes library