Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Guess I am the only one who is blown away that..

S

shenfrey

macrumors 68030
Original poster
May 23, 2010
2,540
800
Every. Single. Song on iTunes is going to be available for us to listen to for just $9.99. I don't know about you but iTunes has every song I would want to listen to and more, whereas my current subscription is limited with many albums having bizarre gaps of missing songs because for some reason they aren't available in my country (UK).

I am excited : )
 
  • Like
Reactions: Dennison
I'm hoping Apple open this up for sonos. If they do I'll be subbing, if not, no sale. That's whe I listen to most of my music these days. Given they're doing an android app there's hope.
 
I'll be canceling my Spotify subscription in favor of Apple Music. iTunes literally has ALL of the music I need. Plus, most of the exclusive albums hit iTunes first.
 
camperdown9 said:
A couple of years ago I subscribed to Spotify for £9.99 a month and I use it all the time. I never buy music anymore and I haven't used iTunes in ages.

This is just a question, whats the difference between the iTunes subscription service and Spotify?
Click to expand...
Well it boils down to taste. Off the top of my head the evanescence album "Fallen" has every song but "Bring me to life" on Spotify in the UK. iTunes will have the entire album. There are so many of these bizarre and random omissions like this in Spotify, that won't be in Apple Music.

Last check Spotify has just over 17 million tracks, ITunes has over 30 million.
 
shenfrey said:
Well it boils down to taste. Off the top of my head the evanescence album "Fallen" has every song but "Bring me to life" on Spotify in the UK. iTunes will have the entire album. There are so many of these bizarre and random omissions like this in Spotify, that won't be in Apple Music.

Last check Spotify has just over 17 million tracks, ITunes has over 30 million.
Click to expand...

Interesting!

A the moment my partner and myself share one Spotify account. This works fine unless we both want to listen to different music at the same time. I wonder with the iTune version will it be the same or will we be forced to buy the family plan.
 
camperdown9 said:
Interesting!

A the moment my partner and myself share one Spotify account. This works fine unless we both want to listen to different music at the same time. I wonder with the iTune version will it be the same or will we be forced to buy the family plan.
Click to expand...

The family plan uses the same account as family sharing.
 
camperdown9 said:
Interesting!

A the moment my partner and myself share one Spotify account. This works fine unless we both want to listen to different music at the same time. I wonder with the iTune version will it be the same or will we be forced to buy the family plan.
Click to expand...
If you share an itunes/app store account, youll be able to share.
 
If it is really the full library I will switch for sure. I have been kinda trying to get away from spotify since it took them like 3-4 month to update their app for the iPhone 6 resolution...
 
Does anyone know of any way to export your Spotify playlists? I notice that feature is conveniently missing.

I got rather annoyed at them after the disaster that was the latest version of their desktop app, so I'm up for a switch.
 
shenfrey said:
Every. Single. Song on iTunes is going to be available for us to listen to for just $9.99. I don't know about you but iTunes has every song I would want to listen to and more, whereas my current subscription is limited with many albums having bizarre gaps of missing songs because for some reason they aren't available in my country (UK).

I am excited : )
Click to expand...
Apparently the Beatles albums won't be available. So says Bloomberg. So its not every song.
 
  • Like
Reactions: smizzle and PowerBook-G5
I have two accounts with Spotify and currently pay £14.99 per month. I am really keen to move away from Spotify (especially to Apple's family plan) but, until Sonos is brought on board, I'll have to stay with Spotify. Sonos are saying that they will hopefully allow access to Apple Music but just not right from launch. Fingers crossed that it won't take as long as iTunes Radio (i.e. never...!).
 
It'll be REALLY interesting to see if they manage to actually pull that off. I know for certain services (Tidal, for example), a lot of tracks and artists are listed but when you try to play it says "not available for stream". Hopefully there won't be a lot of that.
 
Rogifan said:
Apparently the Beatles albums won't be available. So says Bloomberg. So its not every song.
Click to expand...

Looks that way. Apple would have surely mentioned The Beatles as a selling point. They also would have made it clear that anything in the iTunes Store would be available in Apple Music. I think this is the biggest misconception and a potential deal breaker for some to switch from Spotify.
 
  • Like
Reactions: smizzle
If $9.99 translates to £9.99 in the UK, then no. I'm not excited. I'll keep using Spotify.

If they allow playlists and albums be be imported from Spotify, then I might be tempted to stream given it'll be a native and more integrated app.
 
nfl46 said:
I'll be canceling my Spotify subscription in favor of Apple Music. iTunes literally has ALL of the music I need. Plus, most of the exclusive albums hit iTunes first.
Click to expand...

Exactly.

I'm willing to give up my Spotify student pricing for Apple Music, because it honestly looks 100x better.
 
  • Like
Reactions: valleian
Any word on if the Apple Music service will allow for offline playing like Spotify does? I'm all for returning to a fully-Apple ecosystem for my music, but offline playing is a nice feature to have if you're going to be airplane-bound for a few hours or something similar.
 
apl120 said:
Any word on if the Apple Music service will allow for offline playing like Spotify does? I'm all for returning to a fully-Apple ecosystem for my music, but offline playing is a nice feature to have if you're going to be airplane-bound for a few hours or something similar.
Click to expand...

Yep, they do!
 
  • Like
Reactions: IGI2 and apl120
shenfrey said:
Every. Single. Song on iTunes is going to be available for us to listen to for just $9.99. I don't know about you but iTunes has every song I would want to listen to and more, whereas my current subscription is limited with many albums having bizarre gaps of missing songs because for some reason they aren't available in my country (UK).

I am excited : )
Click to expand...

I highly doubt it's every single song. It's only gonna be the labels who've signed with Apple Music.
 
  • Like
Reactions: co.ag.2005
So it wasn't actually mentioned that it was every song then? I wouldn't make that assumption.
 
shenfrey said:
Well it boils down to taste. Off the top of my head the evanescence album "Fallen" has every song but "Bring me to life" on Spotify in the UK. iTunes will have the entire album. There are so many of these bizarre and random omissions like this in Spotify, that won't be in Apple Music.

Last check Spotify has just over 17 million tracks, ITunes has over 30 million.
Click to expand...

People still listen to evanesence?

:p
 
shenfrey said:
Every. Single. Song on iTunes is going to be available for us to listen to for just $9.99. I don't know about you but iTunes has every song I would want to listen to and more, whereas my current subscription is limited with many albums having bizarre gaps of missing songs because for some reason they aren't available in my country (UK).

I am excited : )
Click to expand...

Well, no, it's not every song on iTunes. Apple makes a distinction between iTunes library and Apple Music library.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back