You know, I've given this some thought: That $120/yr price point adds up. I just saw an ad for a shipped 11" MacBook Air for $700. My current iMac is from 2009, and it functions just fine for what I need. Meaning the cost of Apple Music pays for a new computer over the expected lifetimes. Yes, this is a very personal choice, and I know many people value the Apple Music stuff. It just isn't for me. In that sense, it is something of an outlier for me, as I own and use about every other Apple product. (The only Apple product I've never owned is a Mac Pro.)
Connect is a joke. it doesn't connect you to anything. The way I think it was supposed to work is that you curate a list of artists that you follow. When you go to Connect you can easily scroll through your list of artists and get playlists that has one of their tracks, get updates about concerts and promotions, have a listing of their discographies, connect with other fans and communicate with the artists. New demo tapes might be added there for fans, and merch can be sold. None of that is the case.
I go back and forth with this service...I kinda like it, but I already have everything setup in Spotify and I really don't want to setup all of my playlists, find the songs for each play list and set everything back up again for Apple Music. I'm sure I'm not the only person in this position. A lot of times I just like Apple Music better, but its the migration thats killing me. It would take quite a while to set things up in Apple Music like I have it in Spotify (assuming they have all the songs I listen to).
I agree, the interface is confusing and a change would be welcome!
I love the characterization that Apple has been hesitant to push iTunes down loaders to the streaming service. Whoever thinks that way is someone who has never been in the technology business, or maybe not in any business. At least not in executive management. In my 26 year software career we ALWAYSNEW had a multi-year roadmap. Aplle, in this case, would have from the start had a plan for introducing version 1 of the streaming service and using the first year to attract those who are already inclined toward the streaming paridigm. Their roadmap would then have them incorporating ideas from that year in tne market and feedback from their downloader user base. This second year would always have been in the plan as the year to then make a large push to all types of users. They would have planned to keep the download business going full force during the transition. It would have been terribly irresponsible, and inefficient from a business perspective, to push downloaders hard on the streaming service in the first year.
They HAVE to remove the idiotic requirement to use iCloud Music Library for all your music if you wish to download even one Apple Music song to listen to offline. This is crazy stupid.
Settings > Music > Turn off iCloud Music Library. Done.
- allow me to actually listen to my downloaded songs when I am outside of WiFi, that is the purpose after all, of downloading them
You can. When I hike, I download a couple albums, put my phone in airplane mode and listen away.
It works reasonably reliable when you downloaded the album shortly before, but when you try to play something you downloaded weeks before, it barely ever works. I haven't tried the trick to tun into Airplane mode, but it should not need this trick: I should just be able to download a song/album, have it on my device and be allowed to listen to it whenever I want. WiFi is not available everywhere....
Connect is a joke. it doesn't connect you to anything. The way I think it was supposed to work is that you curate a list of artists that you follow. When you go to Connect you can easily scroll through your list of artists and get playlists that has one of their tracks, get updates about concerts and promotions, have a listing of their discographies, connect with other fans and communicate with the artists. New demo tapes might be added there for fans, and merch can be sold. None of that is the case.
Soundcloud got it right on so many levels. It really is a shame Apple got caught up in Iovine's bubble as they are really missing out on the very essence of Music. I feel no connection to Dre, Drake, Taylor Swift and the Weeknd. Music ought to be rebranded to Tunes.
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You know, I've given this some thought: That $120/yr price point adds up. I just saw an ad for a shipped 11" MacBook Air for $700. My current iMac is from 2009, and it functions just fine for what I need. Meaning the cost of Apple Music pays for a new computer over the expected lifetimes. Yes, this is a very personal choice, and I know many people value the Apple Music stuff. It just isn't for me. In that sense, it is something of an outlier for me, as I own and use about every other Apple product. (The only Apple product I've never owned is a Mac Pro.)
I agree, the interface is confusing and a change would be welcome!
>:x