Recently Apple released a new Apple Watch. It has a cellular chip in it so it can have coverage wherever there are cell towers. This coverage will allow people to make phone calls and to stream their Apple Music. That tagline that “you now have 40 millions songs on your wrist” is rather interesting. Apple's keynote about the watch showed a lady on a lake making a phone call with her watch.
Back when I was in High School, there was a TV commercial that showed a man entering a roadside diner. He approaches the jukebox and asks the person behind the counter, “what song’s do you have.” The proprietor says, “All of them.” If I remember correctly the product it was an ad for BASF which had a recording medium back then. They were saying if you had the right recording sub straight you could store all the songs.
Many years ago, Spotify came on the scene. It is a British company, and they allowed people to stream all the music they had access to, on a desktop or mobile device. Songs are managed by producers and production companies. So companies like Sony, BMI, Warner and others have millions of songs that they distribute to read stations and studios and get paid for that. In theory the money is then shared with the artists. The laws in England are different for copyright, so when Apple wanted to get it not he streaming music game, they had to start from scratch. Apple has money and Apple has Jimmy Iovine who is a big-wig in the music industry.
So now if you pay Apple $.9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, you can stream 40 millions songs. These are, of course, the songs managed by a production company that wants to play ball with Apple. It took years for Apple to get access to the Beatles because they did not want to be streamed. The Eagles also held out for a very long time, but their music can now be streamed. There are some songs that will never be in Apple Music or Spotify. Bootleg type music recorded at concerts will not be found. A rare recording of Elton John and Billy Joel playing Piano Man is not in a streaming service, but it exists on the internet, and in my collection.
Rdo was a streaming service that disappeared. Pandora is an internet radio station that has begun a paid streaming service. Tidel is supposedly owned by the artists and Groove music has also disappeared. The biggest complaint is that artists never see any money from streamed music, and Apple has done nothing to fix that.
No one will ever listen to 40 million songs. People have a set genre or time frame of music and listen to that over and over. Few people are constantly looking for new music. Fo me, I ripped all my CDs years ago and came up with a little over 20,000 songs. I tried Apple Music and will not be renewing. I just don’t listen to new music. If I must hear a new song, I will find it on youtube.
Back when I was in High School, there was a TV commercial that showed a man entering a roadside diner. He approaches the jukebox and asks the person behind the counter, “what song’s do you have.” The proprietor says, “All of them.” If I remember correctly the product it was an ad for BASF which had a recording medium back then. They were saying if you had the right recording sub straight you could store all the songs.Many years ago, Spotify came on the scene. It is a British company, and they allowed people to stream all the music they had access to, on a desktop or mobile device. Songs are managed by producers and production companies. So companies like Sony, BMI, Warner and others have millions of songs that they distribute to read stations and studios and get paid for that. In theory the money is then shared with the artists. The laws in England are different for copyright, so when Apple wanted to get it not he streaming music game, they had to start from scratch. Apple has money and Apple has Jimmy Iovine who is a big-wig in the music industry.
So now if you pay Apple $.9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, you can stream 40 millions songs. These are, of course, the songs managed by a production company that wants to play ball with Apple. It took years for Apple to get access to the Beatles because they did not want to be streamed. The Eagles also held out for a very long time, but their music can now be streamed. There are some songs that will never be in Apple Music or Spotify. Bootleg type music recorded at concerts will not be found. A rare recording of Elton John and Billy Joel playing Piano Man is not in a streaming service, but it exists on the internet, and in my collection.
Rdo was a streaming service that disappeared. Pandora is an internet radio station that has begun a paid streaming service. Tidel is supposedly owned by the artists and Groove music has also disappeared. The biggest complaint is that artists never see any money from streamed music, and Apple has done nothing to fix that.
No one will ever listen to 40 million songs. People have a set genre or time frame of music and listen to that over and over. Few people are constantly looking for new music. Fo me, I ripped all my CDs years ago and came up with a little over 20,000 songs. I tried Apple Music and will not be renewing. I just don’t listen to new music. If I must hear a new song, I will find it on youtube.
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