Trent Reznor Shares his Thoughts on Apple Music: 'The Experience is What Matters'

[oopsroger]

so far so buggy...

And the device (6P) heats up rather quickly.

 

[ninethirty]

This is a joke, right? The guy's been massively successful for decades. David Fincher's had him score his last 3 movies also. He's far from a nobody or a has been, and quite frankly, out of everyone that Apple acquired, talent wise, from beats, Trent is the most level headed and down to earth. I just think Apple Music is extremely poorly executed, and he's toeing the company line here.

Yeah well it's quite obvious that Reznor doesn't know much about music, you got that right. Guy is a retread clown. What has he ever done? Make some weirdo videos and maybe a couple songs that were popular for about a week? Great, Trent. That certainly qualifies him as knowing how us little folks are supposed to "enjoy our music".

 

[Benjamin Frost]

I used to share the same sentiment until I got used to Spotify's free plan, which is seriously making me consider pay a subscription especially if they can match Apple's $15 family plan. It's really awesome.

What I like the most is: I make personal playlists and add tracks to it as I encounter them, I no longer have to confront the question of whether I wanna spend $1 on a track to add to a playlist, or buy the entire album. In my case since I'm old school, if I have the choice to buy, I prefer the entire album, but it gets costly fast, in which case I have harder decisions to make on what to commit on buying.

You'll find yourself giving a chance to genres and artists you may not have considered before, since there is no 'commitment' you'll be free to explore and give a chance to new material. This is why I think streaming works and even though I like owning music, it seems to me streaming is the future.

Problem is, you can listen to radio for free, and do exactly the same process of music discovery.

Once in a blue moon (or is it white?), I hear something I like on the radio or somewhere else enough to want to buy it. But most music is either forgettable or nice but not nice enough to buy.

If you wade through Apple Music, the same thing will happen. You will find nice music, but not much that you want to keep. Most people are happy to listen to free radio, and save themselves $20,000 a lifetime.

 

[trifid]

And apple's iOS7's design where plain text can be a button,

Sorry, not interested Trent. I buy music. I like supporting the artists I listen to. I buy it from them on a CD at their shows when possible. Not interested in streaming, DRM or getting locked in to any middle-man money schemes scooping the dough off the top. I am a long time Mac fan. I think iTunes is an abomination and needs to go. The UI is awful, there's no dark mode and it's trying to do way too much these days. Break out these services away from the music player. I don't need them.

You don't like itunes, you don't like paying... Spotify isn't itunes and it's free

About using radio instead of Spotify for discoverability, it's not the same. Maybe it depends on what genre of music you listen to, but there is a lot good music that's never played on radio, and I mean any radio, Pandora etc.

 

[tgwaste]

MEMO TO MR. REZNOR:

Music is not about an experience.

Music is about quality.

Experience is the back-end buzzword that companies use when they are trying to sell rip-offs.

There is almost no music of quality that has been produced in the last twenty years. Therefore, people are content to stream it for free rather than pay for it.

Writing good music is hard. It may be that good music has died a natural death, in which case, no amount of curation will save it. In the event that it hasn't died yet, we are in a moribund period, and are waiting for it to re-ignite.

There is almost a 100% chance that it won't in the current quality-hostile climate, however. Why? Because musicians aren't paid enough. Not nearly enough.

When musicians are paid Tim Cook's wage, and he is relegated to his rightful position as a drone administrator and paid accordingly, then, and only then, will music once again flourish.

Yes, I'm sure Trent who is one of the most revolutionary musicians of the last 100 years needs your advice on what music is.

 

[tgwaste]

Yeah well it's quite obvious that Reznor doesn't know much about music, you got that right. Guy is a retread clown. What has he ever done? Make some weirdo videos and maybe a couple songs that were popular for about a week? Great, Trent. That certainly qualifies him as knowing how us little folks are supposed to "enjoy our music".

LOL. You have absolutely no idea what-so-ever what Nine Inch Nails did for music.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

Yes, I'm sure Trent who is one of the most revolutionary musicians of the last 100 years needs your advice on what music is.

Thank you for your kind words.