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Upcoming 'Apple Music' Streaming Service to Include Three-Month Free Trial
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Maybe it will be renamed: "Beats", "Music" , or "Media" Another possibility is for Apple to split up the contents within iTunes into different apps (like on iOS). So the new OS X could have "Music" or "Beats" and there could also be a "video" app. Then all the iOS app syncing can be merged with the Mac App Store app.
Come on Apple. Surprise me. Play Jazz do something better with Beats. The experience needs to be better with iTunes on OSX for one. Ad some color to the damn thing and bring back the graphical eq.
I think they're launching a new revamped Itunes Radio, Streaming Service, and overall Itunes app. The new Itunes radio will have alot of changes including human DJs who host certain channels and curate the music. Some of them will be celebrities. The streaming service will be Apple's version of Spotify. I think Itunes radio will continue to be free, not sure, but the streaming service is definitely what you'll pay $10 for if you want to keep it after your free 3 month trial. If you pay the $10 you have access to it all (streaming, radio, etc) I'm not sure at the moment if you can just have free Itunes radio without the streaming service but I feel like you still will.
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Very true. I have stopped trying to sync playlists and rating individual tracks and praying both might sync across all my devices. There's no point worrying or complaining about it. The subscription service is the future and I'm sure will work a lot better for me.
I think iTR is great except that it does have a bad habit of playing unrelated music quite often. I hope this improves.
Btw, this new reply system is awful.
Btw, this new reply system is awful.
Looking forward to this. I use Spotify but for me the apps have always been a buggy mess. The ability to add your own music is important to me and the way Spotify handles that is more trouble than it's worth.
Assuming Apple Music will be a combination of iTunes Match with streaming and Siri support that would be perfect for me.
One question I have is how they will integrate streamable and non-streamable tracks in a way that users can understand, avoiding frustrations. What I mean by this is that I assume that Apple won't be able to mandate that every single album/artist/track in the iTunes store will be streamable, they'll have to let some artists/labels opt out. Those artists/labels would, however, want to sell their tracks in the iTunes store. I can see a scenario where you search for a track when you're subscribed to Apple Music and the search comes back with a version that you can buy but not stream, leading to frustrated users.
Assuming Apple Music will be a combination of iTunes Match with streaming and Siri support that would be perfect for me.
One question I have is how they will integrate streamable and non-streamable tracks in a way that users can understand, avoiding frustrations. What I mean by this is that I assume that Apple won't be able to mandate that every single album/artist/track in the iTunes store will be streamable, they'll have to let some artists/labels opt out. Those artists/labels would, however, want to sell their tracks in the iTunes store. I can see a scenario where you search for a track when you're subscribed to Apple Music and the search comes back with a version that you can buy but not stream, leading to frustrated users.
Owned music is not going to suddenly go away, even if music subscriptions do manage to catch up with purchases sometime in the near future.
The new music app (whether it's called iTunes or not) will need to seamlessly balance music you own with music you stream. People are not going to suddenly dump their music collections just because of subscription services and a lot of people will still continue to buy their new music, even if Apple do deliver "the best experience on the planet from day one".
I know you always like to make rash predictions that the latest Apple release will wipe out any existing products in next to no time but there's no way music sales will be disappearing any time soon and Apple will still continue to sell music as long as the demand is there.
That has really been needed for a little while. Apple hasn't just sold tunes there since about 2006 or 2007. The whole i-thing, as someone who jumped aboard the Apple ship about 10 years ago, seemed to start after the iMac. It was a hit, and I think Steve used it as kind of a new branding for everything Apple after he returned. With the iPod, it became like sticking an Apple logo on something -- which is disappointing if you've ever bought an iHome audio product and expected more out of it. Anywho, Tim seems to be doing the same with calling things Apple-this and Apple-that. When the official logo can be
anything, it solves a lot of naming headaches. Also guessing the whole beef with Apple Corps is over.I'd like to know how long until Tim goes nuclear and rebrands the devices as Apple Phone and Apple Pad.
I personally like iTunes Radio. Then again I only listen to it for about 20-30 min a day. iTunes Match works great for me too. I have over 3k songs matched.
I will not pay $120 a year for streaming + $25 for iTunes Match.
I will not pay $120 a year for streaming + $25 for iTunes Match.
Amazing how one day iTunes Radio personal radio station just nails the mix. Then the next day WTF why are these unrelated songs playing?
That has really been needed for a little while. Apple hasn't just sold tunes there since about 2006 or 2007. The whole i-thing, as someone who jumped aboard the Apple ship about 10 years ago, seemed to start after the iMac. It was a hit, and I think Steve used it as kind of a new branding for everything Apple after he returned. With the iPod, it became like sticking an Apple logo on something -- which is disappointing if you've ever bought an iHome audio product and expected more out of it. Anywho, Tim seems to be doing the same with calling things Apple-this and Apple-that. When the official logo can be
I'd like to know how long until Tim goes nuclear and rebrands the devices as Apple Phone and Apple Pad.
I would say after 6S, but I think the 6S might be the Apple Phone running on Apple OS One.
OS One brings both OS's together as one with hand off and Apple Cloud.
iTunes Match works great for me now. However it is very sensitive to corrupted/encoding errors tracks in your collection. I learned this from several support calls about poor synching across my devices. After a very time consuming process of going through my music and repairing it,Match works great. Basically any song encoded with much earlier versions of iTunes or some other encoding creates major problems.
There's really no incentive to sign up for this that I can see....it costs the exact same as Spotify and it sounds like it doesn't even have the student/family discount.
Not to mention that you can get 3 months of Spotify for .99.
Maybe it will have some kind of system integration to make it worthwhile...we'll see.
Not to mention that you can get 3 months of Spotify for .99.
Maybe it will have some kind of system integration to make it worthwhile...we'll see.
Hmmm? I'll check it out while it's free, but it is not something I would pay for.
You make it sound like this has never happened before.
I can't recall it ever happening before. I thought someone must have hacked your account.
Apple trying to force this Beats garbage is the reason they killed the iPod classic. No way that I will ever use up all my data I pay for streaming music I also have to pay for.
So it'll have *both* kinds of music, rap *and* hip-hop?
Color me unimpressed.
They have to compete with your local Spotify...expect the same price or even less...unless they offer lossless content too...
I just dumped Spotify for Google Play because they recently increased the number of songs you can upload from 20,000 to 50,000 so now I can have my full 33,000 plus track library and my streaming integrated via one app that can pull from both seamlessly for making playlists, creating "radio" stations etc. and I can also reduce the amount of music stored on my phone. If Apple were to boost the limit for Match from 25,000 then I'd certainly give the combination of Match plus the new streaming service a look.
Meh. I still buy my iTunes albums…. the good old fashioned way. Buy/download once, then I can keep high bit-rate MP3 or AAC copies archived forever.
I don't understand this paying to subscribe to streaming radio…. it has to be a Millenial thing. There are already tons of free online radios available no subscription required. iHeart Radio, for example, is absolutely free.
I don't understand this paying to subscribe to streaming radio…. it has to be a Millenial thing. There are already tons of free online radios available no subscription required. iHeart Radio, for example, is absolutely free.