Apple Music - Is it worth it???
Betty Swollax
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Despite Apple offering a three month free trial, is it with the asking price of a tenner a month? I have used the free version of Spotify but am not a regular User. I've always preferred to buy proper CDs and then rip them into iTunes for on-the-go use on my mobile devices. At home, I listen to better quality CDs on the CD player.
The new Apple iTunes music interface looks quite cool though on my desktop with all my own playlists still their along with the streaming radio channels and endless amounts of music streaming albums like Spotify.
However, I'm having this problem in that I just cannot get over the fact that I would be paying a tenner a month for not owning anything. It's quite expensive when you consider most of us have other monthly bills to pay plus I already pay for iTunes Match but that's a reasonable £21 a year.
The new Apple iTunes music interface looks quite cool though on my desktop with all my own playlists still their along with the streaming radio channels and endless amounts of music streaming albums like Spotify.
However, I'm having this problem in that I just cannot get over the fact that I would be paying a tenner a month for not owning anything. It's quite expensive when you consider most of us have other monthly bills to pay plus I already pay for iTunes Match but that's a reasonable £21 a year.
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Presumably a tenner a month or £120 per annum is in excess of what you're paying for vinyl, CD's or downloads over the space of a year, I don't know? I find it good value for money but find, say, the price of a cinema ticket or a cup of Starbucks coffee much less so. Some people pay circa £80 plus a month for access to various TV channels (I'll admit I don't. I just don't find that good value but that's just me).
What we value and are prepared to pay for is different for each of us I suppose.
I rip all my music to a NAS drive and can access it anywhere from any device. CDs and Vinyl at home only! Spirit et al have too much, nobody listens to an album anymore.
I know I don't own any of the albums, but how many albums have you bought over the years which just end up in the back of a drawer/cupboard to never be played again.
At least this way for the cost of a new album a month on CD you can have access to as many albums as you wish.
....compressed and soul less, just the way modern music should be.
A lot of the music I have is shared with friends so a lot of the files are tagged with my friends iTunes accounts. I'm just hoping Apple are not looking at these fields
Translation... I've downloaded a shed load of music in dubious ways! Ha ha
No comment :P
I use Spotify & have just started the Apple Music trial but content seems identical..
I was searching UK Band The Bevis Frond & both have the album "New River Head", but on both it's cut into two albums and both only have part 2, no part one (which is the bulk of the album)
Do they both use the same central "database"??
I can't find any difference from one to the other regarding content
Quality not quantity. I've got 150,000 songs on a nas drive and every morning I choose a couple of CDs to listen to in the car. Perfect
Here's one of them. :eek:
If you go ahead and do it, be sure to back up first and be aware that any track you re-download will have DRM applied to it. (And that's assuming all your metadata doesn't get trashed during the transfer.)
Yes,..I'm having a bit of trouble with my iTunes library as it happens. Nothing too serious but things are a bit messed up from the way I had it all originally configured. I'm having to re-arrange everything,..'again!!
I also read that if you have all your own ripped music into iTunes Match (I do), then for goodness sake, don't cancel your subscription because if you do, and subsequently delete the original files from your Hard Drive, and re-download from Apple's iCloud, then you will receive a DRM copy from Apple Music instead.
This is why the labels have jumped on board. On average, people were spending a lot less buying CDs over a year than what they will spend on a music subscription. Even in the boom years of the humble compact disc. And of course the costs are a lot lower than manufacturing and shipping discs to retailers.
Also if you want to guarantee an artist or album will remain in your library, you still have to purchase. Artists/albums/songs disappear from these services all the time for licensing reasons. When that happens, all those tracks become unplayable on all your devices too - unless you "own" them.
That's pretty ridiculous though. So I'm ripping a CD into my local library, uploading it to iCloud and then having to download that same file (which already exists locally on my laptop) to the iPod touch. Why can't I cut out two of those steps and simply rip the CD and sync the file via USB.
You can turn off iCloud Music Library which restores USB-based sync.