Apple announces its music streaming service
Apple announced Apple Music, an all-in-one app for discovering, listening to and sharing music. Apple Music is both a streaming music service and 24-hour live radio station.
Apple Music's streaming music service enables users to search and stream millions of songs from iTunes, with human curated playlists from music experts for improved personalization over algorithmically created playlists. Apple Music will be available for iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC on June 30, with support for Apple TV and Android coming in the fall. Apple's new 24-hour global radio station called Beats 1 will be broadcast live in over 100 countries, headlined by former BBC radio DJ Zane Lowe alongside other famous DJs from Los Angeles, New York and London such as Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga. Beats 1 will offer exclusive interviews, guest hosts and keep tabs on what is going on in the music world. Apple Music Connect is the social platform built into Apple Music that allows users to connect with artists and share their favorite songs and albums through Facebook, Twitter, iMessage and email. Apple hopes that Apple Music Connect will help not only major artists, but ones that are indie or relatively unknown, more easily promote their music and engage with their fans.
Apple Music will launch in over 100 countries on June 30. You'll be able to get a free three-month trial initially, after which the service will be priced at $9.99 a month. However, a family plan will also be offered, allowing up to six family members to use the service - each with their own Music account and recommendations - for $14.99 a month.
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I pay for google music. I stream all day to my phone, totally worth it.
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I still buy tracks on Beatport.. but I also listen to drum and bass and many harder to find tracks simply are not so readily available on streaming sites.. plus I like supporting the genre more directly.
That said, Itunes has been, and always will be a rip off.. so at least Apple is giving people "more" via streaming than they did through single song purchases.
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10 a month for legal access to unlimited music, and the library is perfectly reasonable; they have almost everything that I search for.
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The only people I know that still do are collectors, and they don't buy digital.