Jim Dalrymple: Apple Music is a nightmare and I'm done with it

[boltjames]

Some genres are… dead. Just like Western genre in films. Nothing new can be created in some genres, everything has been composed/played (at least on one instrument in a band: for example guitar in rock'n'roll).

They just discovered the Mashco Piro tribe in Uganda, they've never seen another human, so they seem to be our last shred of hope to find a new form of music.

As relates to Apple Music, this is the underlying problem. In a world where all new songs sound just like all the old songs, who needs to pay for new songs that are free on FM radio, Pandora radio, iTunes radio, iHeart radio, YouTube, and all the rest? Why is downloading "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" necessary when you can just create a custom iTunes Radio station called "Maroon 5" and hear dozens of songs from dozens of bands that sound similar and you're guaranteed to hear "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" once every 90 minutes anyway? It's a better experience and it's FREE.

BJ

 

[navaira]

They just discovered the Mashco Piro tribe in Uganda, they've never seen another human, so they seem to be our last shred of hope to find a new form of music.

For the love of all that is good and pure, keep those people away from Britney Spears and Justin Bieber. (Or the other way round.)

 

[bjjp2]

http://gizmodo.com/itunes-an-obituary-1719479490

 

[topmounter]

+1

Today's music is boring. Most songs that one thinks are really good are actually just rehashes of prior hits.

"Feel My Face" is roaring up the charts, I can name 5 Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake songs that are essentially the same. Just because these Jedi Mind Tricks work on today's youth doesn't mean I need to buy the tenth iteration of "Billy Jean". People with large iTunes collections know what's what, and we have 100 other songs to fill that "upbeat pop disco" niche when the moment strikes.

BJ

I'm not "young" by any means, but when people say negative things about "today's music" they are inevitably referring to "popular" music. There is lots of great music being made, but it's just not the music being shoved down the main-stream's throats by the labels that dream of the "good 'ol days" (80's into the 90's) when they controlled what made it to the public's ears.

And yeah, while I don't listen to the radio or any main-stream / popular music outlets, when I do run upon something that has been deemed popular by today's standards, I usually find myself doing a double-take, listening for a moment and making sure someone hasn't dug up an old Tiffany or Jody Watley recording and isn't lip sync'ing to it.

Regardless, Apple needs to fix their Big Hot Music mess. I'm just not sure there is anyone at Apple that can do it, not even SJ could truly right their rolling cloud products debacle.

 

[From A Buick 8]

They just discovered the Mashco Piro tribe in Uganda, they've never seen another human, so they seem to be our last shred of hope to find a new form of music.

As relates to Apple Music, this is the underlying problem. In a world where all new songs sound just like all the old songs, who needs to pay for new songs that are free on FM radio, Pandora radio, iTunes radio, iHeart radio, YouTube, and all the rest? Why is downloading "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" necessary when you can just create a custom iTunes Radio station called "Maroon 5" and hear dozens of songs from dozens of bands that sound similar and you're guaranteed to hear "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" once every 90 minutes anyway? It's a better experience and it's FREE.

BJ

I tend to want to hear a specific song when I want to hear it. Not everything is for everyone, just because it all sounds the same to you does not mean that others feel the same way. My kids like AM and are very into new music, popular music and (my son at least) is into lots of older bands (from my glory days). I find some new music that like and like to pepper it into the older music that is more my taste.

I agree that the layout and functionality of AM needs some work (it will get better). It seems to be a bit closed minded to just assume everyone has the same taste in music as you do.

 

[boltjames]

I tend to want to hear a specific song when I want to hear it. Not everything is for everyone, just because it all sounds the same to you does not mean that others feel the same way. My kids like AM and are very into new music, popular music and (my son at least) is into lots of older bands (from my glory days). I find some new music that like and like to pepper it into the older music that is more my taste.

I agree that the layout and functionality of AM needs some work (it will get better). It seems to be a bit closed minded to just assume everyone has the same taste in music as you do.

I'm not talking about me, I'm making assumptions on the feelings of the general iTunes population and speculating on root causes for the record industry's troubles. That said, I fit a particular use case (older, have a 25,000 song library) and for people like me there isn't much need for a paid subscription service when we already have every old song we ever desired and new songs are so bereft of interest.

BJ