{"id":2281,"date":"2003-04-28T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=421"},"modified":"2010-05-09T00:06:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:06:40","slug":"apple-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/28\/apple-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as everyone already posted, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/music\/\">Apple Music<\/a> announcement is out. Here are some initial impressions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes 4<\/a> is slick and the music store works well &#8211; at least the browsing\/previewing part. So far only US residents can buy music; it remains to be seen whether this is due to legal complications with music licensing or to prevent credit card fraud (foreign cards can&#8217;t be checked online, it seems). Either way, it may be some time before this restriction is lifted, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>The music store, supposedly, has over 200K songs at present. Even so, there are significant holes in the lineup. I spent about 3 hours browsing and, while I found many old friends, nearly as many are among the missing&#8230; my tastes are, admittedly, somewhat unorthodox. Of course, they&#8217;re working on expanding the list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doubtful about prices. I checked several dozen albums I already own and they were all within the $10-12 price range; adding $1 for a reasonable-quality blank CD (blanks cost from $0.50 to $2 in Brazil) puts an album in the exact price range I&#8217;d normally pay for them in the US. On one hand, the store-bought CDs have liner notes, jewel cases, and so forth; on the other hand, downloading is much easier and previewing all songs is a big plus. Unfortunately, many albums I checked were &#8220;partial albums&#8221;, meaning that you have to buy each song individually; at $0.99 for a song, that&#8217;s less attractive.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how this will work for newly issued music. Can any artist just e-mail Apple and publish stuff, or do the &#8220;Big Five&#8221; labels have a monopoly on what appears in the music store? Initial public reaction seems to be quite positive; let&#8217;s see what the artists say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as everyone already posted, the Apple Music announcement is out. Here are some initial impressions. iTunes 4 is slick and the music store works well &#8211; at least the browsing\/previewing part. So far only US residents can buy music; it remains to be seen whether this is due to legal complications with music licensing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-AN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}