Ondrej Holzman Apple, as expected at WWDC, introduced a new music streaming service that has a simple name: Apple Music. It's actually a three-in-one package – a revolutionary streaming service, 24/7 global radio and a new way to connect with your favorite artists.
Almost exactly one year after the giant acquisition of Beats, we are receiving its result from Apple: an Apple Music application built on the foundations of Beats Music and with the help of music industry veteran Jimmy Iovine, which unites several services at once.
“Online music has become a complicated mess of apps, services and websites. Apple Music brings the best features in one package, guaranteeing an experience that every music lover will appreciate," explained Iovine, speaking for the first time at an Apple keynote.
In a single app, Apple will offer music streaming, 24/30 radio, as well as a social service for artists to easily connect with their fans. As part of Apple Music, the Californian company will provide its entire music catalog, numbering over XNUMX million songs, online.
Any song, album, or playlist you've ever purchased in iTunes or uploaded to your library, along with others in Apple's catalog, will be streamed to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC. Apple TV and Android will also be added in the fall. Offline playback will also work through saved playlists.
But it won't just be the music you know. An integral part of Apple Music will also be special playlists created exactly according to your musical taste. On the one hand, very effective algorithms from Beats Music will certainly be used in this regard, and at the same time, Apple has hired many music experts from around the world to cope with this task.
In the special section "For You", each user will find mixes of albums, new and older songs and playlists that match his musical taste. The more everyone uses Apple Music, the better the service will know their favorite music and the better it will offer content.
After two years, iTunes Radio has seen a significant transformation, which is now part of Apple Music and will also offer, according to Apple, the first live station dedicated exclusively to music and music culture. It is called Beats 1 and will broadcast to 100 countries around the world 24 hours a day. Beats 1 is powered by DJs Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga. Beats 1 will offer exclusive interviews, various guests and an overview of the most important things happening in the world of music.
In addition, in Apple Music Radio, as the new apple radio is called, you will not be limited only to what the DJs play for you. On individual genre stations from rock to folk, you'll be able to skip any number of tracks if you don't like them.
As part of Apple Music Content, Apple introduced a new way for artists to connect with their fans. They will easily be able to share behind-the-scenes photos, lyrics to upcoming songs, or even release their new album exclusively via Apple Music.
All of Apple Music will cost $9,99 per month, and when the service launches on June 245, everyone will be able to try it for free for three months. The family package, in which Apple Music can be used on up to six accounts, will cost $30 (14,99 crowns).
While Beats Music and iTunes Radio were only available in a handful of countries, the upcoming Apple Music service should launch worldwide on June 30, including the Czech Republic. Then the only question that remains is whether Apple can attract, for example, the current users of Spotify, the biggest competitor on the market.
But in fact, Apple is far from attacking only Spotify, which costs the same and has over 60 million users (of which 15 million are paying). Streaming is only one part, with the new XNUMX/XNUMX radio, Apple is attacking the so far purely American Pandora and partially also YouTube. There are also videos in the package called Apple Music.
So I don't know, but they talked about services like Spotify as something ordinary, while Apple music is exactly the same, or am I wrong?
I agree, probably the only thing that Apple has in addition is that it can intelligently generate a playlist based on my music, I don't know if other services know that, plus Apple will have all the musicians who are rejected by e.g. Spotify
All streaming services have this, generating playlists. It is a basic function.
Generating yes, but when I used Spotify, I chose e.g. POP and it played songs with a focus on POP. It wasn't like spotify was going through my playlist and generating something based on that.
what was, what was, it's different
This is completely, but completely common with Spotify, Deezer or even Google Music
If the recommendation system is to be non-trivial, it works based on the similarity of songs or users (user X likes x and user Y also liked y, so ix is offered to him). Of course, the more songs and users, the better it works. Everyone does it, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Google and even Apple, but in my opinion - judging by iTunes and the AppStore) it does it the worst (so far) of the big players.
Well, overall, for a long time at Apple Music during the keynote, I was wondering what was actually what (radio, socko network, etc...) and those negroes' speeches there were "worth it". Especially the Iovine or Lovine or whatever it's called, he slapped half the time there so out of the way that I had the feeling that he was on a trip. Pretty sloppy for me and nothing I would sit on my ass about, except for the classically above-standard prices. With this, I don't know what to download from Spotify.
Premium prices? You're on a trip too. :D Spotify always costs $9.99 in the US too.
And you live in the US? Here, Spotify costs me 5,99 euros, which is approx. 170 CZK, while with Apple it costs a nice 250 :- YES, if Apple does not understand the regional differences (if they are not exactly in its favor), then I have the option again to their wonderful services (years with a cross after funus) to throw a bob.
He hasn't presented the prices for Europe yet, so it's pointless to speculate now. But if they don't compare the prices with spotify in the EU, then everyone will be pissed off and not many people will switch. I see a big plus of Apple Music in the fact that individual songs can be downloaded for offline listening, with spotify this has to be done via playlists. I pay the family a family account, so if they don't set the price €1=$1, we will switch (it will be cheaper).
With Spotify, just add the song to "Songs" and enable offline playback there. If you don't have half a million of them there, it's no problem.
It is a completely ordinary copy of Spotify. Plus there's a timeline that's unnecessary if you're following the artist on Facebook… And radio? Lack of interest. I wasn't impressed at all. And another stealer is News... A complete copy of Flipboard - so 98%.
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parade, apple copier. they hit the spine hard.
Well, I had fun again, gentlemen, a typical Czech discussion here, right? just rumble and rumble and rumble…. sad…
That's the best, always watching how everyone here cries that it's expensive, useless and copied. Then Mr. "Anton" joins in, who says that we are sheep, an Apple copier, and tries to convince himself that if he doesn't have an Apple Watch and watches porn for free, he is better than everyone else in the discussion.
That's the best, always watching how everyone here cries that it's expensive, useless and copied. Then Mr. "Anton" joins in, who says that we are sheep, an Apple copier, and tries to convince himself that if he doesn't have an Apple Watch and watches porn for free, he is better than everyone else in the discussion.
Exactly. Spotify is ok, I use it myself, but I think it is popular mainly because it also has an unpaid part. Paying nothing, downloading, criticizing and even cursing how the artists make money from you is typical for our two brotherly nations, I subscribe to Family, as we can all use it in the family. Cool. Let everyone find what suits them. Me Apple. I tried Tidal, but I can't use it at work, and the choice is also important for me. Nice day.
Will the iTunes match continue or will it be cancelled?
I'm sorry, but this Apple Music really comes from Spotify and the like.
I'm sorry, but this Apple Music really comes from Spotify and the like.