Question Apple Music

[skyscraper101]

Sign up for Tidal.

After that ridiculous launch of Tidal a few months back, I don't think I could ever bring myself to subscribe to it.

 

[hiccup]

it's eaten into illegal downloading too - I used to have huge mp3 libraries from when I downloaded stuff for casual listening: now I just go to spotify, youtube or bandcamp if I want to check something out and my hard-drive is practically empty.

I've been grateful for my huge mp3 libraries since moving house and not having proper broadband for the foreseeable future. When you're limited to 25gb/month, streaming audio suddenly feels like a luxury.

 

[killer b]

Yes, me too. That's the only reason anyone would sign up to it as an artist/label isn't it - basically that it's better than nothing. It makes it almost impossible to try and push people towards paying for anything else though.

I'm not sure if it's possible to get people to pay more for digital - legal streaming came along just as there was a concerted effort to make illegal downloading more difficult, and as it's reasonably cheap and convenient, most people switched to that. I suspect the price point is at the maximum the market will bear - increase the cost, and illegal downloading will go back up again.

 

[mwgdrwg]

After that ridiculous launch of Tidal a few months back, I don't think I could ever bring myself to subscribe to it.

Yeah, I agree. I was only joking

I'm currently really enjoying the free trial of Apple Music....see myself sticking with it.

 

[killer b]

(it's also possible to use some some streaming services without paying - spotify online player with adblock for example )

 

[Winot]

After that ridiculous launch of Tidal a few months back, I don't think I could ever bring myself to subscribe to it.

CD quality for £20/month though.

Amusingly it was originally pitched as the audiophile's Spotify. There was a lot of spluttering when Jay-Z et al. stepped in.

 

[sim667]

I still haven't tried out apple music.

At the end of the day if I want to be able to buy and keep an MP3, not to pay for having the privilege of listening to it occasionally.

 

[editor]

Here's what you've all been waiting for. A Burberry Apple Music Channel.

Burberry is the first big brand to get an Apple Music channel

 

[Pingu]

another reason not to use apple music

Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

another reason not to use apple music

Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.

We're going to be having this all day aren't we? This is the third one I think.

Apple Music does not delete your originals just because you upload them btw.

 

[Pingu]

i dont use it so i have no way of validating it - so will bow to your greater knowledge

 

[sim667]

I've just stuck all my music onto an old hard drive, and set up a raspberry pi 3 as a plex server......

My own personalised apple music

 

[mwgdrwg]

I've just stuck all my music onto an old hard drive, and set up a raspberry pi 3 as a plex server......

My own personalised apple music

Any more details on how you did this, software etc? My Pi 2 is gathering dust and this sounds ace.

 

[sim667]

Any more details on how you did this, software etc? My Pi 2 is gathering dust and this sounds ace.

Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 2 •

Its with a plex client on your phone though, its obviously not available in the music app on your phone.