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In good news, overall the android app improved in a recent update. I used to experience frequent crashing and freezing when using the notification bar or lockscreen controls, everything is smooth now.
I just nixed my service. Although the sound quality was that much better, they're was just too much I couldn't find on Tidal. I wound up using Spotify more. Combine that with the number of technical difficulties I was having with it, all of which I don't really deal with on Spotify, the better quality was not worth it.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jun 30, 2015 21:40:25 GMT -5
Not Tidal news.....but some news about Apple's streaming:
Apple’s highly-anticipated and controversial streaming music service goes live today. Apple Music is now available on Apple devices in 100 countries. It will be available on Windows and Android in the fall.
iPhone and iPad users can can download Apple Music via the iOS 8.4 Software Update. MacBook users need to download the iTunes 12.1.2 update.
The monthly subscription price point is $9.99, but the first three months are free for everyone. Apple had initially planned to not compensate artists during this time — however, after stiff criticism from numerous artists and record labels, the most notable being Taylor Swift, Apple reversed its position. Apple is also offering a family plan for $14.99 a month, which provides access to six individual family members.
Apple Music is based around three main features: curated playlists that go beyond algorithms to recommend music; a 24/7 global radio station called Beats 1 hosted by Zane Lowe (previously of BBC Radio 1) and several musicians including St. Vincent, Josh Homme, Drake, and Elton John; and a social networking platform called Connect that allows fans to connect with artists.
The launch of Apple Music also marks the first time several high-profile albums are available to stream online. Among them: Dr. Dre’s The Chronic (Dre is a member of Apple’s team), Swift’s 1989, and AC/DC’s entire catalog. (Note: AC/DC is also available on Spotify, Rdio, and other streaming services.) Update: Apple Music’s launch also includes instrumental versions of Nine Inch Nail’s The Fragile and With Teeth along with Pharrell’s new single “Freedom”.
“Can we build a bigger and better ecosystem? One complete thought around music,” executive Jimmy Iovine said of Apple Music’s mission statement. Added Trent Reznor, who serves as a chief creative director for Apple, “There needs to be a place where music can be treated less like digital bits but more like the art it is, with a sense of respect and discovery.”
Installing my Apple Music trial now. If anyone can get me away from Spotify, I'm thinking this will be the one.
It is going to do it for me. I can basically combine all of the main things I use Spotify for with all of the things I use MediaMonkey for within iTunes now. Only the social aspect of Spotify is missing at this point, but being able to rate songs on a 1-10 scale easily trumps that for me.
It's so clean, I'm super impressed. I've stumped it a few times but the majority of stuff is there.
At this point, I'm holding out to see the desktop version but I'm pretty sure I've sold my soul to Apple (yet again), and just doing the free version of Spotify for something that I may not be able to find.
Post by Son of a Beek on Jul 1, 2015 15:57:00 GMT -5
I use an emulator on my iPhone that needs iOS 8.0.2 or lower to run so I won't be using apple steaming until they update the emulator. Also I'll keep using Spotify until scrobbling is available for Apple Music. But I'll switch over eventually
Not Tidal news.....but some news about Apple's streaming:
Apple’s highly-anticipated and controversial streaming music service goes live today. Apple Music is now available on Apple devices in 100 countries. It will be available on Windows and Android in the fall.
iPhone and iPad users can can download Apple Music via the iOS 8.4 Software Update. MacBook users need to download the iTunes 12.1.2 update.
The monthly subscription price point is $9.99, but the first three months are free for everyone. Apple had initially planned to not compensate artists during this time — however, after stiff criticism from numerous artists and record labels, the most notable being Taylor Swift, Apple reversed its position. Apple is also offering a family plan for $14.99 a month, which provides access to six individual family members.
Apple Music is based around three main features: curated playlists that go beyond algorithms to recommend music; a 24/7 global radio station called Beats 1 hosted by Zane Lowe (previously of BBC Radio 1) and several musicians including St. Vincent, Josh Homme, Drake, and Elton John; and a social networking platform called Connect that allows fans to connect with artists.
The launch of Apple Music also marks the first time several high-profile albums are available to stream online. Among them: Dr. Dre’s The Chronic (Dre is a member of Apple’s team), Swift’s 1989, and AC/DC’s entire catalog. (Note: AC/DC is also available on Spotify, Rdio, and other streaming services.) Update: Apple Music’s launch also includes instrumental versions of Nine Inch Nail’s The Fragile and With Teeth along with Pharrell’s new single “Freedom”.
“Can we build a bigger and better ecosystem? One complete thought around music,” executive Jimmy Iovine said of Apple Music’s mission statement. Added Trent Reznor, who serves as a chief creative director for Apple, “There needs to be a place where music can be treated less like digital bits but more like the art it is, with a sense of respect and discovery.”
Unless Tidal adopts the family plan and improves their music selection I'll probably start using this when it goes live for Android.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jul 1, 2015 21:27:38 GMT -5
Huge win for Tidal.....though I'm not going to be happy if we start seeing more and more artists going exclusive on streaming platforms.
Apple finally launched their much-discussed streaming service Apple Music this week, and they’ve managed to snag some fairly impressive exclusives like Thom Yorke, Dr. Dre, and Taylor Swift. But Jay-Z’s Tidal also had a win today, as Pitchfork reports that Prince has removed his entire catalog from all streaming services except Tidal. A note on Prince’s Spotify artist page says that “Prince’s publisher has asked all streaming services to remove his catalog. We have cooperated with the request and hope to bring his music back as soon as possible.” Prince has been riding the Tidal train for a while now, so this isn’t really a huge shock, but it’s still pretty big news, and a much-needed victory for a platform that’s been catching a lot of criticism.
So, with Prince moving all his music to Tidal only, it brings up a question/worry I've been having since Tidal started up.
For most artists, wouldn't it be more financially beneficial to allow your music to be streamed in as many places as possible?
My biggest fear with all these competing stream sites is that every artist will make their music exclusive to just one. So,the consumer will have be forced to use all of them to get the same wide variety of music that he or she could right now find on just one. Is this a major possibility?
For most artists, wouldn't it be more financially beneficial to allow your music to be streamed in as many places as possible?
Depends on the payouts of all those streaming platforms. If Spotify and Google Play are only giving a small portion but Tidal is giving a larger percentage of money to the artists (and I'd assume some kind of bonus/exclusivity fee) then it may be better to sign a deal to exclusively stream on one.
For most artists, wouldn't it be more financially beneficial to allow your music to be streamed in as many places as possible?
Depends on the payouts of all those streaming platforms. If Spotify and Google Play are only giving a small portion but Tidal is giving a larger percentage of money to the artists (and I'd assume some kind of bonus/exclusivity fee) then it may be better to sign a deal to exclusively stream on one.
Unless Tidal has a much smaller user base.
To me it sounds like the arena has standardized royalty pricing pretty well and it'll take a behemoth to move that (Apple not Tidal). I think you'll see more Apple Music exclusives as the revenue stream isnt really expected to be huge on their bottom line, but really sell you on their ecosystem. They dont have to make money on streaming music. Spotify, Tidal and everyone else does.
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Jul 2, 2015 14:12:05 GMT -5
I hadn't heard this rumor:
Front of house ended up seating me so close to his table, I couldn't not hear him prognosticating openly about the music industry: the pitfalls of Apple Music for artists and a speculated-upon proprietary Beats plug/jack to replace Apple devices' current 1/8" universal standard.
Man, I'm really digging Apple Music...but iTunes still really sucks.
What don'to you like about iTunes? I'm like one of the only people I know that likes it and found ways to use it that work for me. The one thing I still miss is coverflow which they removed a few versions ago.
It just doesn't work very well. I'm using it almost exclusively with Apple Music, shouldn't be that much of a hassle. However, some of the music I add to "my music" doesn't show up (it is there on my iphone app) and some of the music that is there gets greyed out for who knows what reason. For instance, every song on the Courtney Barnett album is available to me thru iTunes...except for "An Illustration of Lonliness" which is greyed out.
Also, the views just aren't very intuitive. For example, I can't get an artist's albums to be sorted with the latest release first unless I also want that release to have the songs sorted in reverse order (i.e. track 12, track 11, track 10, etc.). Weird.
I'm coming from MediaMonkey, which is awesome with this stuff...but of course you can't stream from it.
Another annoyance that isn't really iTunes fault, but an Apple issue in general is that it is pulling teeth to scrobble from them. I don't have problems doing this with really any other platform. Hell, I can even scrobble from Youtube, but any way I've tried for Apple only works half the time, is buggy as hell and ultimately not worth it.
Read somewhere that Apple Music won't be added to the Sonos controller until end of the year. There are a few work around options, using a Playbar and Apple TV AirPlay, but I don't have a Playbar yet, so I probably won't subscribe until Sonos adds it into the fold, or I buy a playbar, which probably won't happen until closer to the end of the year.
It just doesn't work very well. I'm using it almost exclusively with Apple Music, shouldn't be that much of a hassle. However, some of the music I add to "my music" doesn't show up (it is there on my iphone app) and some of the music that is there gets greyed out for who knows what reason. For instance, every song on the Courtney Barnett album is available to me thru iTunes...except for "An Illustration of Lonliness" which is greyed out.
Also, the views just aren't very intuitive. For example, I can't get an artist's albums to be sorted with the latest release first unless I also want that release to have the songs sorted in reverse order (i.e. track 12, track 11, track 10, etc.). Weird.
I'm coming from MediaMonkey, which is awesome with this stuff...but of course you can't stream from it.
Another annoyance that isn't really iTunes fault, but an Apple issue in general is that it is pulling teeth to scrobble from them. I don't have problems doing this with really any other platform. Hell, I can even scrobble from Youtube, but any way I've tried for Apple only works half the time, is buggy as hell and ultimately not worth it.
I now know what it is to scrobble, and for that I thank you. #'merrica
Post by itrainmonkeys on Oct 27, 2015 11:40:01 GMT -5
Since this is kind of like a general streaming thread I'll post this here:
If you want Siri to answer any questions about music charts, past or present, you’ll have to shell out for an Apple Music subscription, The Verge reports. As Pandora co-creator and former CTO Tom Conrad pointed out on Twitter today, this is what happens if you’re not a subscriber and you ask Siri to look up America’s current #1 single:
The same thing happens when you try to look up decades-old hit singles:
Now compare that to this, which is what you get if you are an Apple Music subscriber:
Siri commands relating to chart data have been linked to Apple Music since the platform launched, but if you’re not a subscriber, it should just bump you to an ordinary web search. I guess we’re coming up on the end of that three-month free trial for most users, and Apple wants to make sure they stay. Gee, aren’t the streaming wars fun?
UPDATE: On the other hand, NBC News reports that the slightly differently-worded query “What was the number one song in 2014″ works for non-subscribers, which doesn’t make any sense. So maybe it’s just a bug?
Since this is kind of like a general streaming thread I'll post this here:
If you want Siri to answer any questions about music charts, past or present, you’ll have to shell out for an Apple Music subscription, The Verge reports. As Pandora co-creator and former CTO Tom Conrad pointed out on Twitter today, this is what happens if you’re not a subscriber and you ask Siri to look up America’s current #1 single:
The same thing happens when you try to look up decades-old hit singles:
Now compare that to this, which is what you get if you are an Apple Music subscriber:
Siri commands relating to chart data have been linked to Apple Music since the platform launched, but if you’re not a subscriber, it should just bump you to an ordinary web search. I guess we’re coming up on the end of that three-month free trial for most users, and Apple wants to make sure they stay. Gee, aren’t the streaming wars fun?
UPDATE: On the other hand, NBC News reports that the slightly differently-worded query “What was the number one song in 2014″ works for non-subscribers, which doesn’t make any sense. So maybe it’s just a bug?
So if I ask the first question it told me no, since I am not an apple music subscriber. BUT, I then asked about the song in 93 and got the bottom image. It won't tell me about current hits only. I have asked several different questions about past hits and got the "this is what I found on the web" answer.
"According to the authors' calculations, Spotify does seem to have put a damper on piracy, but it's also displaced some digital sales (neither is exactly a shocker). Add it all up, then factor in the payments Spotify itself is sending to labels, and the effect appears to be roughly "revenue neutral" for rights holders. They don't make any more money. They don't make any less."
"If the platform's business model hasn't shrunk the total pie of cash being divvied up by rights holders, but some artists really are seeing their paychecks shrink, it suggests the problem (insofar as one exists) has to do with the way record labels are distributing the cash."
Short article about Drake failing to get the top spot on the Billboard 100 with "Hotline Bling" because of different streaming services.
Now that is interesting, thanks for sharing. I imagine Apple will start sharing their streaming info soon enough though. They probably want to confirm their users will continue with the service after the trial period is up before they start releasing any info about streams, number of users, etc.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Oct 30, 2015 11:58:24 GMT -5
This is a really cool site someone made for NYC where you can stream music from bands that are playing on a given day. Would be really cool to see this take off and spread to other cities: gigbloc.com/gigs/nyc/2015-10-31
Apparently The Beatles entire catalogue will be available to stream on all the different platforms in the very near future (rumored date of Christmas Eve).