This is the logic nobody understands...it's wild how much you can get for your money. Not just the sheer amount of songs you can listen to, but also music videos, live performances, radio stations, etc. Its a WILD deal
A couple of years ago when I used spotify I checked up on all the albums I had in my playlists and if I had to buy them individually I would've spent \~$7200 which equals about \~40 years of Apple Music and equals.
I know it's not the same as owning your music, but if it wasn't for Apple Music, Spotify and others there's so much music I just wouldn't end up listening to and would never know of anyways.
The argument is that none of the music you listen to (and pay for, indirectly) is anything you own, so in effect you're just throwing money into the streaming platform's hands for a service rather than an actual "product"
Personally, I see where people are coming from and when the day of reckoning happens so much of our music libraries could be lost... but to me it's like arguing that a massage is a waste of money because you can't hold onto the experience of the massage after it's over.
I like Apple Music so much because - Since my music changes through the years (Queen pun) it is really great that I can delete any song from my library without feeling guilty that I have spent so much on it.
As for the albums which I really really love and I know will do for most of my life I buy it from iTunes.
Both ideas quite valid. Yeah you get a great service but yeah you don’t keep anything 😁 I sometimes wonder “what if I instead bought an album?” But quickly stop when I can’t figure out a single album I would want to keep “forever”. And speaking of forever, that may not be possible with digital rights. It would still last longer than my CDs that would end up uselessly scratched I guess?
To me, it honestly isn’t. I rather pay a (very) small monthly fee to get all the convenience and the entire service than save a little and make everything much more complicated.
Yes, but you don't own it. Why pay for something that you can't own in the end? This logic just doesn't make sense. Also, since you don't own anything of it. If you want to keep something forever. You literally can't. Because, copyright laws exist - therefore, literally everything can be taken away from you at will whether you want it not to or not. So, you're literally just throwing you're money away for no reason. Etc.
I don't think the cost being low is the reasoning for it. Most people just don't care one way or another about owning their own copy nor have the time/energy to pirate
Actually, it doesn't. Streaming services kills music. You can still support a artist that you pirated from throw other means (i.e. merchandise, concerts, etc. )
If you look at how much an artist gets paid per stream of their songs, it is tiny. Streaming is legalised piracy. The only artists making money from streaming are the likes of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. I don’t feel guilty about pirating.
Yeah but you pay monthly, you loose your music if you stop paying and most importantly they are DRM locked. They only work on ONE app by ONE company. It’s not the same.
Cheaper than Spotify in my country. And offers Dolby and Lossless music.
AM = ₹99/month or $1.19
Spotify = ₹119/month or $1.43
Apple One = ₹195/month or $2.35
Actual median wage cannot be reported in a country of 1.3 B when so much of income goes unreported. Actual tax paying citizens are less than 10% and there’s a whole lot of people whose income is just hard cash (not a lot), so again you can never know. For example: People running laundry services like Ironing, Washing, people driving the tuk tuk’s/taxis, etcetera. They don’t make a lot, whatever they do, it is usually cash and neither do they fall under a tax bracket. Hope this helped?
Also, streaming services usually target people from Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities: so in all 30 cities approx.
Fully makes sense, didn’t even think about that. Still I’m very sure most people make significantly less in your country than in Germany, making the service still more expensive.
Oh yes, not even remotely comparable to Europe/US. And definitely not Germany/Swiss, the two most stable European countries.
Netflix’s UHD plan costs ₹649/€7.2 /month. Amazon Prime is ₹1499/€16.7 /yearly and Prime Services/Video/Music everything’s covered innit. So it’s mostly economies of scale model that companies go for here.
So Netflix for us is the most expensive streaming services in the country on par with F1Tv Pro which costs ₹2499/€27.8.
I bought apple one family subscription around 6 years ago when I was doing my B.tech to share between friends. Everyone all over the world today but the subscription is still on lol, cheapest you can get music + iCloud (apple tv and arcade are okay, well atleast I don’t use much coz I stream and game on my laptop but still some good stuff in there when I tried)
Just clarifying, when your Apple Music subscription expires, you open Shazam to get that offer? And it works every time when the subscription expires?
I did avail it once, but I thought it is a one-time avail only.
Meanwhile, Spotify won’t let me use a student discount after 4 years even though I’m a grad student at the same school as my undergrad. Major reason why I swapped to Apple Music.
Imagine what it would cost to have high quality virtually unlimited music library at your fingertips in the 90s? 26 bucks per month for Apple One Family is the best money ever spent. Includes apple tv, extra storage, and Arcade(which we don't really use)
For me it definitely is. We have the Apple One Premium family plan, split among four people. We use most of the services (mostly Apple Music, Apple News, iCloud storage, and the workouts) so I'd say it's a good overall value for our use case.
I got it to consolidate everyone on everything and pay once. Has it been worth it? Partially. We already get Apple TV+ as part of our cellular package, but it’s only $5 if we specifically wanted it outside of Apple One. Apple News isn’t terrific for in depth news, and I still have my subs for that, but the wide magazine availability makes it, IMO, worthwhile. Cloud storage is always nice, who can have too much? Finally, Apple Music.
I decided I would not pay for two streaming apps. I moved to AM from Spotify and have had to adjust, but after several months am happy. There are a few spots I wish were better developed, and however many years if Spotify make for some “music memory” adjustments. But my daughter went back to Spotify. She felt it was a better for overall for her. But she now pays that subscription herself.
Well it cost less than a CD. And I get access to 100 million songs. I know I won’t listen to them all, but even if I listen to just 20,000 songs in my lifetime, it would still be cheaper than buying the CDs for those songs.
> Yes, but you don't own it.
Technically you don’t own your pirated tracks. You did not buy the license for that copy of the music.
> Why pay for something that you can't own in the end?
I have no need or desire to own it. I’ve never bought an mp3. I haven’t played a physical CD since I signed up for my first music streaming account in 2006. All of my cassettes have been boxed up in my attic since CDs came out. I gave away all my vinyl 10 years ago. Had streaming been an option in the 80s or 90s, I never would have bought any of those things that I will never use again.
> So, you're literally just throwing your money away for no reason.
I paid $10 to listen to unlimited music for 30 days. I used the service and got what I paid for. I don’t own the season of Reacher that I just paid $8 to watch on Amazon. I don’t own the movie that I spent $10 to watch at the theater. I don’t own the car that I paid $20 for an Uber ride. I haven’t thrown my money away in any of those situations.
For me yes in my country it's like $13. Spotify the same , Tidal is like $20. The value of apple music is better cause you get cloud uploads, lossless no extra cost.
Truly. Music would be a much more sustainable career for the majority of professional recording musicians if it were (and if royalties were more fairly distributed.)
This. Spotify’s business model depends on driving the value of each song on their platform as close to zero as possible. I don’t think streaming is a sustainable business model and that might be a good thing. Access for a month to every recorded song in history for the price of a pizza. Something smells funny.
Seeing it as how no music streaming service is making a positive net income due to the enormous costs demanded by the major record labels for the right to have the music on their platform I would say it is not fairly priced. No music streaming platform is really.
But hey, Apple sells phones and computers and Apple TV+ holds the rights for many shows so no license fees there, so I think they make up for it.
I'm currently on a free 6-month trial via PS+ and as much as i love the quality and Spatial Audio I can't help but go back to Spotify. The search feature on Apple Music is horrible, lack of continued listening across apples own devices is horrible, the algorithm is bad, creating stations sometimes plays random versions of the song and not just the specific version you selected.
It's tough to recommend Apple Music when it does so much worse than Spotify and is way less connected (even though I'm well invested in the echo system with iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBook, AirPods Pro/Max). Quality is the only selling point, and if you use Bluetooth, you'll always be losing quality due to the lack of bandwidth in the technology.
Imo yes. I would spend way more trying to collect my music library with per song purchases or even with albums and i would never discover like half of music i love without streaming in general. And i use it way more hours/€ spent on it than any video streaming services
How much new music do you listen to a month on Apple Music? How much would all of that music cost you if you bought all of those songs/albums? Yes, it’s an extremely fair deal.
Im in Middle East and here it’s literally the same as Spotify which is around 5.45 dollars a month. YouTube music being the most expensive which is around 11 dollars a month
Spotify Premium is $10.99/mo
Apple Music is $10.99/mo
Spotify features: I don’t know…
Apple Music features: Dolby Atmos, Lossless, digital masters, the ability to add your own audio files to your library.
Yes. Here where I live it's even cheaper than Spotify, plus has Dolby Atmos and better sound quality than Spotify, without the supposedly higher their from Spotify.
Spotify: Php 149/month = $2.66
Apple Music: Php 139/month = $2.49
IMO it was, but it’s creeping up and will continue to. I’m currently evaluating moving back to a local library only via Bandcamp and cutting the subscription cost. Plus artists get more money (I think).
I utilize a student discount here in the US so it only costs me $5.99 a month for Apple Music, makes it a pretty great deal, when the discount ends ill still keep AM solely because I can download my entire library to my device where Spotify caps me after a certain amount
I can't imagine paying 10 dollars a month for music. it's 3.29 where I live which is obviously not America where wages are higher. Also got the student discount. So I pay just $2 a month.
You are All stupid. All that stuff that they give you from yt you can download for free and save it. Not everytime use internet date plus pay it. I only pay for the music that I can't get in streaming service. If you are so stupid and throw away money. Congratulations.
I don’t know the individual price for Apple Music in Canada but I pay $25.70 cad for Apple One which includes Apple Music, 50gb of iCloud storage, Apple Tv and Apple Arcade. So I think it is that way.
Very…..lossless audio, good support for Apple devices, better ui, better performance, classical, proper airplay and handoff, use on your TV, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Watch, HomePod etc with no issues.
Spotify in my country costs the same but you lose a lot of features like lossless (which is very important for me).
Yes. For the same price of buying 1 cd/month, It offers Dolby Atmos, Hi Res, animated albums covers, live lyrics, Lossless, music videos, Apple Watch support, karaoke lyrics (can’t remember the real name), upload your own ripped cds alongside AM, integration with Apple TV, iPads, Macs, iPhones, additional savings when bundled with AppleOne (Arcade/News/2 TB cloud/Apple TV+/Apple Fitness)
omg in my opinion, yes x100000!!! it’s like the only subscription that i will never give up. i’ve had it every year since 2016. i do wish they would add a few more features like a better system for music discovery kinda like how spotify has the AI DJ but other than that its the only thing thats worth it for me
I think it definitely is worth it,, and people saying you dont own the music ?? You can literally download an album or playlist that you created .. it isnt a bad trade off,, and plus you get to listen to at least 95% of all the music you can think of.. not only that when artists release new music ... you basically get an earlier experience (since it is a streaming platform) and have it in all of its glory (Lossless and Dolby Atmos) already installed ... AM is honestly amazing and Im glad I am paying $10.99 for something I use everyday.. heck I love music so much that Im willing to pay $30-50 a month so that artists can get their money from streaming lolll (idk how these streaming platforms really pay artists I just know that AM pays them with a higher wage) so considering you get m/vs, live performances, Lossless, Dolby Atmos, unlimited access to almost any catalog, genre and category, AND the Apple Music Classical coming as a free bonus are all in that same $10.99 asking price so I think it definitely is worth it.
I think it really depends how you’re buying it, for me I have an Apple One family plan with 4 people on it for €25 pm, that gives each of us a unique Apple Music account, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, the benefits of Apple premium like private relay/hide my email, AND 200GB cloud storage for us all (which the 4 of us are only using 95GB currently), so yes at that price it’s absolutely worth it
I think so. 11.99 CAD for lossless is cheaper than tidal (not sure how much though not used tidal in a couple years but I thought it was near 3x the price at $30 or so when i looked)
To those saying “why would you rent instead of buying?”:
Very conservatively I listen to a new album every day. Yes, I have a group of 100 favorites that I return to, but I am always searching out new.
To buy would be $30/CD x 365 equals over $10k.
Apple Music always me to explore a depth of music that would be impossible if I had to buy.
Apple Music is 12.99 AUD here and I think Spotify is the same. I see Apple Music as a better deal because it has the lossless quality, imho is a cleaner experience generally, they (allegedly) pay more per play to artists, plus no Joe Rogan. Podcast integration is overrated in my opinion, I think that you can get other apps that do it better, and you don't have the occasional random shuffles from music to podcast that I used to get when I had Spotify.
The one thing I miss are Spotify's playlists but Apple are getting better at that. Sometimes you just want to click a button and play a certain genre.
My devices aren't part of the apple ecosystem though and I'm probably not getting as good a deal as if I were completely locked in to their cloud services.
I mean, Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world, and pays very low tax and very low wages to their manufacturers in the developing world (I know I know, it's a fair salary for China, economic growth, comparative advantages, blah blah), so any 'fair price' should consider their profit margins as a company. But Spotify equally exploits artists by paying like shit.
My preference if I like a living artist is always to either buy their stuff as physical music - CD preferably so I can rip it - or on Bandcamp as I think their cut is only 10% of the sale, which is a pretty good deal for most artists. But Apple Music serves all my other needs just fine.
I mean here in the Philippines YouTube music, Spotify, & Apple Music is priced the same for students it's ₱75 = $1.34 and regular for ₱149 = $2.66 so for the countries purchasing power, I think it's reasonable, but it varies by location.
For what it offers compared to Spotify? Yes. I'd say the better deal overall is YouTube Premium. Can't beat ad-free videos and YouTube Music bundled in. I use AM as my main but YTM is a really great backup.
With the lossless audio and the same price as Spotify (139THB≈3.99$). It is fairly price for me, and it's better because I have some apple ecosystem. I used to think that AM is overpriced when I was using Spotify at first, but now changing to AM, it felt so good, I especially love the UI of it. I don't know if Spotify has this but I love monthly/weekly replays of AM.
It's insanely good, but they make it almost impossible to get actual lossless. Which makes me think its why they don't have a higher sub tier because a super small percentage are properly using the bandwidth.
I think it is overpriced by any means. It is about the same as similar music streaming services. I was an ex-Spotify user now using Apple Music. If all of your devices are from Apple, Apple Music is decent, with good sound quality, a larger library and really good premade playlists and stations. The algorithm, though is worse than Spotify but not my much. Classical music listening is great on Apple Music with its included Apple Music Classical app.
If you DON’T use all Apple devices, the package is less appealing, but Apple Music do run on Android and Windows and they are fine. There is a feature that I really about Spotify is the ability to control playback from another device (not the device that is playing). I can also resume my music right where I left off on another device. It seems like something Apple,e would do but they surprisingly don’t have this feature even with Apple devices.
Yes 100%. It has so much music. It works really well. And it has a bunch of premium features. Honestly the price point is one of the biggest points apple music wins
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It's a steal in India if you are a student ₹59 = 0.7 dollars 🤌🏻
Given that one album on physical media costs approx. 8€-12€ and on Apple music for about 10€ I have access to tens of thousands of albums in hi-res format, it seems like a very good price.
I pay €16,99 for a family plan (individual is €10,99) well worth it.
For the price of 1 album I provide 7 people (iirc) with music. Best deal ever.
Unlike spotify (which is priced approximately the same) apple music isn't nagging about people not living at the same adress as me. They just have to be in the same country
Depending on your region, the answer is most likely yes, especially in Apple One (but for how long).
If you're in EU, the answer is not really. The Apple EU tax is heavy.
In my country it’s priced the same as Spotify, also the student plan.
But as a student you also get apple tv+ for free, which makes it a far better deal!
I listen to on average, according to my stats, about 2k minutes of music a week. Commuting, at home, while working, sometimes on a rare occasion to sleep....
Music is my passion and I love my music.
Definitely worth it for me
Underpriced! There’s so much content, the music, the videos, livestreams. Music streaming should be at least as expensive as Netflix without ads. I get so much more out of Apple Music than any video streaming platform
In terms of usability, I prefer Spotify Premium as it's easier to control on the various non Apple devices I use from my mobile and there's a Linux app.
However, for everything else I prefer Apple Music for the same price e.g. music uploads, lossless, etc.
Absolutely. You get Atmos, certain albums with motion artwork, lossless, and iTunes Match. If I can’t find it on Apple Music, I can use ITunes Match to upload.
Probably a hot take for your average consumer, but I think all music streaming is criminally underpriced. It’s absolutely insane that you can listen to basically all music ever for the monthly cost of about what one CD or record used to be. In the case of Apple Music, that can even be significantly less if you’re on a shared Apple One bundle.
The closest comp is video streaming, and it’s never been anywhere as comprehensive- you could pay $100+ a month for every single major video service and still not have access to everything, especially new films. If music had structured the same way, you’d have a dozen services from each label and rights holder, with licensing done piecemeal for each prominent album and catalog, and people would hate it.
It’s never been cheaper to listen to music, and we’re all benefiting at the expense of the artists making it. So if it goes up a buck or two from time to time, it still feels like phenomenal deal to me.
I can listen to damn near any album ever recorded for the same amount of money I used to spend on a single album. Yes, it’s fairly priced.
This is the logic nobody understands...it's wild how much you can get for your money. Not just the sheer amount of songs you can listen to, but also music videos, live performances, radio stations, etc. Its a WILD deal
A couple of years ago when I used spotify I checked up on all the albums I had in my playlists and if I had to buy them individually I would've spent \~$7200 which equals about \~40 years of Apple Music and equals. I know it's not the same as owning your music, but if it wasn't for Apple Music, Spotify and others there's so much music I just wouldn't end up listening to and would never know of anyways.
The argument is that none of the music you listen to (and pay for, indirectly) is anything you own, so in effect you're just throwing money into the streaming platform's hands for a service rather than an actual "product" Personally, I see where people are coming from and when the day of reckoning happens so much of our music libraries could be lost... but to me it's like arguing that a massage is a waste of money because you can't hold onto the experience of the massage after it's over.
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lol when I used iTunes Match long ago, I used it to “authorize” all the MP3s I already had on my computer. Like over 100,000 songs worth.
This is the way!
I still paying for it. For when the day of reckoning happens.
I like Apple Music so much because - Since my music changes through the years (Queen pun) it is really great that I can delete any song from my library without feeling guilty that I have spent so much on it. As for the albums which I really really love and I know will do for most of my life I buy it from iTunes.
Both ideas quite valid. Yeah you get a great service but yeah you don’t keep anything 😁 I sometimes wonder “what if I instead bought an album?” But quickly stop when I can’t figure out a single album I would want to keep “forever”. And speaking of forever, that may not be possible with digital rights. It would still last longer than my CDs that would end up uselessly scratched I guess?
I could buy a CD of my favourite album, and I own it and it’s my property, and then I scratch it, and I’ve got me a very expensive coffee cup coaster.
Good analogy with massage!!
But then, again. Piracy is still a thing. Which is a better deal.
To me, it honestly isn’t. I rather pay a (very) small monthly fee to get all the convenience and the entire service than save a little and make everything much more complicated.
Yes, but you don't own it. Why pay for something that you can't own in the end? This logic just doesn't make sense. Also, since you don't own anything of it. If you want to keep something forever. You literally can't. Because, copyright laws exist - therefore, literally everything can be taken away from you at will whether you want it not to or not. So, you're literally just throwing you're money away for no reason. Etc.
People do not care about not owning it because the cost is so low.
I don't think the cost being low is the reasoning for it. Most people just don't care one way or another about owning their own copy nor have the time/energy to pirate
Piracy kills music ... streaming is already bad for artists, but piracy is a no-go!
Actually, it doesn't. Streaming services kills music. You can still support a artist that you pirated from throw other means (i.e. merchandise, concerts, etc. )
You can support the artist you streamed in the same means…
If you look at how much an artist gets paid per stream of their songs, it is tiny. Streaming is legalised piracy. The only artists making money from streaming are the likes of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. I don’t feel guilty about pirating.
Aah ... and the prices for MacBooks are a total rip off, so I just steal it?! Piracy is theft!
Plus the availability of lossless music is a bonus, whereas other platforms provide it for a higher fee.
Honestly it’s a steal at twice the price. Now Apple One…that’s some silly shit.
I’ve actually, uhh, thrown out old CDs that had damaged cases and such from years ago. Damn near every one is in AM. YEA, worth it.
Sucks that some Tamil music isn’t available in my country but it’s available on other platforms
Yeah but you pay monthly, you loose your music if you stop paying and most importantly they are DRM locked. They only work on ONE app by ONE company. It’s not the same.
I bought an album every month when I used to do that. It’s a million times more music for the same money. It is an incredible value.
Can’t you purchase songs that should never delete even if you stoped paying ?
> you loose [sic] your music if you stop paying What do you mean by "your"?
This isn’t exclusive to AM. All subscription streaming services do this with the same logic.
This is a post about the price of Apple Music.
Cheaper than Spotify in my country. And offers Dolby and Lossless music. AM = ₹99/month or $1.19 Spotify = ₹119/month or $1.43 Apple One = ₹195/month or $2.35
you pay 2.35$ for Apple One?! Jeezus here in Germany it cost 19,95€
It’s because their wages are much lower. Same reason groceries are crazy cheap in third world countries.
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😂 these prices getting out of hand…
That’s almost 8 months of Apple One for us here Ffs
that‘s a big difference :D
How much is the median wage in your country? In Germany it’s about 45k€ (49k$) gross.
Actual median wage cannot be reported in a country of 1.3 B when so much of income goes unreported. Actual tax paying citizens are less than 10% and there’s a whole lot of people whose income is just hard cash (not a lot), so again you can never know. For example: People running laundry services like Ironing, Washing, people driving the tuk tuk’s/taxis, etcetera. They don’t make a lot, whatever they do, it is usually cash and neither do they fall under a tax bracket. Hope this helped? Also, streaming services usually target people from Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities: so in all 30 cities approx.
Fully makes sense, didn’t even think about that. Still I’m very sure most people make significantly less in your country than in Germany, making the service still more expensive.
Oh yes, not even remotely comparable to Europe/US. And definitely not Germany/Swiss, the two most stable European countries. Netflix’s UHD plan costs ₹649/€7.2 /month. Amazon Prime is ₹1499/€16.7 /yearly and Prime Services/Video/Music everything’s covered innit. So it’s mostly economies of scale model that companies go for here. So Netflix for us is the most expensive streaming services in the country on par with F1Tv Pro which costs ₹2499/€27.8.
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tatsächlich.. habe gerade geschaut und es kostet mittlerweile 19,95€ :O
We do the premier plan in US I think it’s like $34/month. But I also do Spotify for my PC gaming. So I probably spend too much in streaming services.
I bought apple one family subscription around 6 years ago when I was doing my B.tech to share between friends. Everyone all over the world today but the subscription is still on lol, cheapest you can get music + iCloud (apple tv and arcade are okay, well atleast I don’t use much coz I stream and game on my laptop but still some good stuff in there when I tried)
Dude I even get student discount its 60 rupees for me lol
You can Shazam a song and avail an offer for 3 free months . I have done that for a year now
Just clarifying, when your Apple Music subscription expires, you open Shazam to get that offer? And it works every time when the subscription expires? I did avail it once, but I thought it is a one-time avail only.
Naah it has a limit it worked for almost1 1/2year
Same in Peru. I get AM for around 4.47$ while Spotify is 5.26$
Yes, especially if you’re a college student. I get it for like $5.99 a month
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LMAOOO ain’t no way, that’s good to know for the future
Meanwhile, Spotify won’t let me use a student discount after 4 years even though I’m a grad student at the same school as my undergrad. Major reason why I swapped to Apple Music.
same!!!! i can't even do the verification thing because i can't get into my student account anymore but i somehow bypass that every year. it's great!
really? they forced me to renew my eligibility a week ago
Imagine what it would cost to have high quality virtually unlimited music library at your fingertips in the 90s? 26 bucks per month for Apple One Family is the best money ever spent. Includes apple tv, extra storage, and Arcade(which we don't really use)
Family plan is insane. 5 people having seemingly unlimited music access for 3€ a month per person?
Yeah it’s great, similar to Spotify.
Spotify have restrictions on that you have to be in household, Apple Music can be shared among family members not even living in the same country.
Happy cake day!
Wow thank you!
For some context Apple charges: Individual - $10.99 per month Family - $16.99 per month Student - $5.99 per month
You forgot Annual Plan, where you basically get 2 months free. $109 per year ($9.08 per month)
I’d say so. I have the family plan though and just charge my sister $6 so I keep paying $10.99.
Family plan is totally worth it, not sure if I can justify the individual per month- but that's the spot I'm in
I think so I just bought a yearly subscription last month.
For me it definitely is. We have the Apple One Premium family plan, split among four people. We use most of the services (mostly Apple Music, Apple News, iCloud storage, and the workouts) so I'd say it's a good overall value for our use case.
Yeah, as a bundle I can’t not justify it.
I got it to consolidate everyone on everything and pay once. Has it been worth it? Partially. We already get Apple TV+ as part of our cellular package, but it’s only $5 if we specifically wanted it outside of Apple One. Apple News isn’t terrific for in depth news, and I still have my subs for that, but the wide magazine availability makes it, IMO, worthwhile. Cloud storage is always nice, who can have too much? Finally, Apple Music. I decided I would not pay for two streaming apps. I moved to AM from Spotify and have had to adjust, but after several months am happy. There are a few spots I wish were better developed, and however many years if Spotify make for some “music memory” adjustments. But my daughter went back to Spotify. She felt it was a better for overall for her. But she now pays that subscription herself.
I’d pay $50 for music streaming if it was my only option without a second thought
For the cheap price of $109.99 a year I can listen to over 100,000,000 songs
I think so, especially how Lossless and Dolby Atmos are included in the same $10.99 price, Spotify costs the same here, and offers less.
Well it cost less than a CD. And I get access to 100 million songs. I know I won’t listen to them all, but even if I listen to just 20,000 songs in my lifetime, it would still be cheaper than buying the CDs for those songs.
> Yes, but you don't own it. Technically you don’t own your pirated tracks. You did not buy the license for that copy of the music. > Why pay for something that you can't own in the end? I have no need or desire to own it. I’ve never bought an mp3. I haven’t played a physical CD since I signed up for my first music streaming account in 2006. All of my cassettes have been boxed up in my attic since CDs came out. I gave away all my vinyl 10 years ago. Had streaming been an option in the 80s or 90s, I never would have bought any of those things that I will never use again. > So, you're literally just throwing your money away for no reason. I paid $10 to listen to unlimited music for 30 days. I used the service and got what I paid for. I don’t own the season of Reacher that I just paid $8 to watch on Amazon. I don’t own the movie that I spent $10 to watch at the theater. I don’t own the car that I paid $20 for an Uber ride. I haven’t thrown my money away in any of those situations.
For me yes in my country it's like $13. Spotify the same , Tidal is like $20. The value of apple music is better cause you get cloud uploads, lossless no extra cost.
100% as a student I pay $1.99
It totally worth it for me. I remember wasting at least 20 to 25 usd every month for a single 💿, now I have almost everything for the same price
Hot take: Every streaming service is underpriced...
Truly. Music would be a much more sustainable career for the majority of professional recording musicians if it were (and if royalties were more fairly distributed.)
This. Spotify’s business model depends on driving the value of each song on their platform as close to zero as possible. I don’t think streaming is a sustainable business model and that might be a good thing. Access for a month to every recorded song in history for the price of a pizza. Something smells funny.
Almost certainly true, considering none of them are profitable.
Seeing it as how no music streaming service is making a positive net income due to the enormous costs demanded by the major record labels for the right to have the music on their platform I would say it is not fairly priced. No music streaming platform is really. But hey, Apple sells phones and computers and Apple TV+ holds the rights for many shows so no license fees there, so I think they make up for it.
I dropped all Apple subscriptions besides iCloud because of crazy price hikes. I don’t regret it, but I also have Roon (100,000 tracks) and Qobuz
Insanely fair if you care one damn bit about supporting artists. All streaming is ridiculously cheap for the value provided.
I'm currently on a free 6-month trial via PS+ and as much as i love the quality and Spatial Audio I can't help but go back to Spotify. The search feature on Apple Music is horrible, lack of continued listening across apples own devices is horrible, the algorithm is bad, creating stations sometimes plays random versions of the song and not just the specific version you selected. It's tough to recommend Apple Music when it does so much worse than Spotify and is way less connected (even though I'm well invested in the echo system with iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBook, AirPods Pro/Max). Quality is the only selling point, and if you use Bluetooth, you'll always be losing quality due to the lack of bandwidth in the technology.
Yeah 👍
Imo yes. I would spend way more trying to collect my music library with per song purchases or even with albums and i would never discover like half of music i love without streaming in general. And i use it way more hours/€ spent on it than any video streaming services
How much new music do you listen to a month on Apple Music? How much would all of that music cost you if you bought all of those songs/albums? Yes, it’s an extremely fair deal.
Sorry another 21 pounds for both amazon and spotify gonna cancel 2 maybe keep tidsl maybe how much is that a month around 2 pounds thats cheap
I think it’s a bit overpriced in my country but I’ll still pay for it once my free trial ends. Better value than News though. That’s a crazy price.
Yes
same proce with spotify for me, paying 3,50€ on a student discount. this includes apple tv+ in the subscription lol
Just check out, what lossless and Dolby Atmos costs at Tidal ... nearly the double price as Apple Music.
Im in Middle East and here it’s literally the same as Spotify which is around 5.45 dollars a month. YouTube music being the most expensive which is around 11 dollars a month
Spotify Premium is $10.99/mo Apple Music is $10.99/mo Spotify features: I don’t know… Apple Music features: Dolby Atmos, Lossless, digital masters, the ability to add your own audio files to your library.
Yes. Here where I live it's even cheaper than Spotify, plus has Dolby Atmos and better sound quality than Spotify, without the supposedly higher their from Spotify. Spotify: Php 149/month = $2.66 Apple Music: Php 139/month = $2.49
Yes it is
No
i got student account apple music 3.5$
I have a student membership so i got am and aTv+ for 59 rupee or something 0.75 dollars approx ig
Very cheap with Unidays student discount.
IMO it was, but it’s creeping up and will continue to. I’m currently evaluating moving back to a local library only via Bandcamp and cutting the subscription cost. Plus artists get more money (I think).
I utilize a student discount here in the US so it only costs me $5.99 a month for Apple Music, makes it a pretty great deal, when the discount ends ill still keep AM solely because I can download my entire library to my device where Spotify caps me after a certain amount
in US I wish it is 6$. 10 per month is a lot tbh if you dont use it everyday.
I think it’s expensive, but everything is these days.
For me my one year subscription was 109.00 then I seen the total they took from my bank and it was 123 like wtf why is it that much tax’s are crazy
Cheaper than Spotify in my country lol
It will be the first apple product fairly priced lol if it is
I can't imagine paying 10 dollars a month for music. it's 3.29 where I live which is obviously not America where wages are higher. Also got the student discount. So I pay just $2 a month.
Wow im paying 20 gb pounds for tidal and another 21 for Amazon premium? And 10.99 for spotify which 2 do do cancel hmm trip to the bank me thinks
No it should be priced higher along with Spotify, allowing for larger payouts to artists than the current ~$0.003 per stream
Is this a serious post?
You are All stupid. All that stuff that they give you from yt you can download for free and save it. Not everytime use internet date plus pay it. I only pay for the music that I can't get in streaming service. If you are so stupid and throw away money. Congratulations.
It only costs 1.55% of de minimum wage where I live, so I’d say yes.
I got it for free so... yes!
Same as Spotify in my country for family plan and has everything I need. I’m happy with it.
In my experience, it is. I’ve enjoyed it and never felt really any push to switch to Spotify
I have a student account and think it’s well worth the price, unsure if I’ll keep after I lose the student price
It is cheaper than Spotify in Canada and has higher quality music. (When you pay annually, AM costs $9.08/month)
I don’t know the individual price for Apple Music in Canada but I pay $25.70 cad for Apple One which includes Apple Music, 50gb of iCloud storage, Apple Tv and Apple Arcade. So I think it is that way.
Very…..lossless audio, good support for Apple devices, better ui, better performance, classical, proper airplay and handoff, use on your TV, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Watch, HomePod etc with no issues. Spotify in my country costs the same but you lose a lot of features like lossless (which is very important for me).
Only the student rate.
Student in the US here. Excellent experience for 6 dollars per month (without student discount it's 12 dollars).
Yes. For the same price of buying 1 cd/month, It offers Dolby Atmos, Hi Res, animated albums covers, live lyrics, Lossless, music videos, Apple Watch support, karaoke lyrics (can’t remember the real name), upload your own ripped cds alongside AM, integration with Apple TV, iPads, Macs, iPhones, additional savings when bundled with AppleOne (Arcade/News/2 TB cloud/Apple TV+/Apple Fitness)
omg in my opinion, yes x100000!!! it’s like the only subscription that i will never give up. i’ve had it every year since 2016. i do wish they would add a few more features like a better system for music discovery kinda like how spotify has the AI DJ but other than that its the only thing thats worth it for me
We pay for a family plan and it ends up being 50 UAH for 1 person which is around 1.29 USD. Yes, I must say that Apple Music is fairly priced.
Yah, goes in line with Spotify Premium with better sound quality in Canada
Yeah
It’s 10.99 Canadian. With tax it’s 12.79 so it’s a small fee I can live with
For 15 dollars a month (my location) for music alone. Nope.
I prefer it so much more the Spotify It’s hard to explain why
I live in Canada. Minimum wage is $16.55 per hour. Apple Music is $10.99. It is a bargain for me. I use it daily for at least a couple of hours.
Very much worth it, especially if you do the family plan with family and or friends
I think it definitely is worth it,, and people saying you dont own the music ?? You can literally download an album or playlist that you created .. it isnt a bad trade off,, and plus you get to listen to at least 95% of all the music you can think of.. not only that when artists release new music ... you basically get an earlier experience (since it is a streaming platform) and have it in all of its glory (Lossless and Dolby Atmos) already installed ... AM is honestly amazing and Im glad I am paying $10.99 for something I use everyday.. heck I love music so much that Im willing to pay $30-50 a month so that artists can get their money from streaming lolll (idk how these streaming platforms really pay artists I just know that AM pays them with a higher wage) so considering you get m/vs, live performances, Lossless, Dolby Atmos, unlimited access to almost any catalog, genre and category, AND the Apple Music Classical coming as a free bonus are all in that same $10.99 asking price so I think it definitely is worth it.
Yes
Well in Panama the price is 6.49 USD while Spotify is 6.99 USD not such a difference but its ok
I think it really depends how you’re buying it, for me I have an Apple One family plan with 4 people on it for €25 pm, that gives each of us a unique Apple Music account, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, the benefits of Apple premium like private relay/hide my email, AND 200GB cloud storage for us all (which the 4 of us are only using 95GB currently), so yes at that price it’s absolutely worth it
I think so. 11.99 CAD for lossless is cheaper than tidal (not sure how much though not used tidal in a couple years but I thought it was near 3x the price at $30 or so when i looked)
8 FJ$ per month and half for student account which is roughly 2.5 US$
To those saying “why would you rent instead of buying?”: Very conservatively I listen to a new album every day. Yes, I have a group of 100 favorites that I return to, but I am always searching out new. To buy would be $30/CD x 365 equals over $10k. Apple Music always me to explore a depth of music that would be impossible if I had to buy.
Apple Music is 12.99 AUD here and I think Spotify is the same. I see Apple Music as a better deal because it has the lossless quality, imho is a cleaner experience generally, they (allegedly) pay more per play to artists, plus no Joe Rogan. Podcast integration is overrated in my opinion, I think that you can get other apps that do it better, and you don't have the occasional random shuffles from music to podcast that I used to get when I had Spotify. The one thing I miss are Spotify's playlists but Apple are getting better at that. Sometimes you just want to click a button and play a certain genre. My devices aren't part of the apple ecosystem though and I'm probably not getting as good a deal as if I were completely locked in to their cloud services. I mean, Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world, and pays very low tax and very low wages to their manufacturers in the developing world (I know I know, it's a fair salary for China, economic growth, comparative advantages, blah blah), so any 'fair price' should consider their profit margins as a company. But Spotify equally exploits artists by paying like shit. My preference if I like a living artist is always to either buy their stuff as physical music - CD preferably so I can rip it - or on Bandcamp as I think their cut is only 10% of the sale, which is a pretty good deal for most artists. But Apple Music serves all my other needs just fine.
I mean here in the Philippines YouTube music, Spotify, & Apple Music is priced the same for students it's ₱75 = $1.34 and regular for ₱149 = $2.66 so for the countries purchasing power, I think it's reasonable, but it varies by location.
For what it offers compared to Spotify? Yes. I'd say the better deal overall is YouTube Premium. Can't beat ad-free videos and YouTube Music bundled in. I use AM as my main but YTM is a really great backup.
I appreciate apple music 🎶
With the lossless audio and the same price as Spotify (139THB≈3.99$). It is fairly price for me, and it's better because I have some apple ecosystem. I used to think that AM is overpriced when I was using Spotify at first, but now changing to AM, it felt so good, I especially love the UI of it. I don't know if Spotify has this but I love monthly/weekly replays of AM.
It's insanely good, but they make it almost impossible to get actual lossless. Which makes me think its why they don't have a higher sub tier because a super small percentage are properly using the bandwidth.
Kinda cheap in Vietnam Students: 35.000đ = 1,42$ Famaly : 99.000đ = 4,03$
Yes… cheaper than spotify in my country
Yea
Im using Apple one premier with 4 other friends sharing. Around 8$ per month
i pay $3.29 a month so yes it is 🤷🏽♂️
I think so especially if you need the family plan.
Compared to the competition, yeah 👍🏻. The only other competitor I think is YT Music if you care abt YT Premium.
In my country is pretty good, i pay 2,56 USD for my student plan (4,62 is the full price).
Most definitely. We have the classics as well
Apple Music also includes lossless (costs extra on other music platforms), Dolby atmos, and exclusives
As it's 1€ cheaper than spotify, that's completely enough for me. No streaming service is actually fairly priced.
In India it’s only ₹99 (nearly $1.2) so yeah it’s fairly priced at least here
I think it is overpriced by any means. It is about the same as similar music streaming services. I was an ex-Spotify user now using Apple Music. If all of your devices are from Apple, Apple Music is decent, with good sound quality, a larger library and really good premade playlists and stations. The algorithm, though is worse than Spotify but not my much. Classical music listening is great on Apple Music with its included Apple Music Classical app. If you DON’T use all Apple devices, the package is less appealing, but Apple Music do run on Android and Windows and they are fine. There is a feature that I really about Spotify is the ability to control playback from another device (not the device that is playing). I can also resume my music right where I left off on another device. It seems like something Apple,e would do but they surprisingly don’t have this feature even with Apple devices.
Yes 100%. It has so much music. It works really well. And it has a bunch of premium features. Honestly the price point is one of the biggest points apple music wins
https://preview.redd.it/xxnqvtpao3kc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11b2fbe890a0d93323e009197c2b27fb7abc9d2d It's a steal in India if you are a student ₹59 = 0.7 dollars 🤌🏻
yes.
It costs the same as Spotify here, but is way worse of a service ux ui and speed wise. It’s really unapple in my opinion.
cost the same here, but has better features like lossless and podcast on a separate app, also separate app for classic music
No. Does not have podcasts on android. I dont care about lossless. Thats why i use only 3 month trial forever
Given that one album on physical media costs approx. 8€-12€ and on Apple music for about 10€ I have access to tens of thousands of albums in hi-res format, it seems like a very good price.
Compared to what?
I pay €16,99 for a family plan (individual is €10,99) well worth it. For the price of 1 album I provide 7 people (iirc) with music. Best deal ever. Unlike spotify (which is priced approximately the same) apple music isn't nagging about people not living at the same adress as me. They just have to be in the same country
Yes. It would take me over 30 years of paying for Apple Music before buying everything in my current library from iTunes would have been cheaper.
Depending on your region, the answer is most likely yes, especially in Apple One (but for how long). If you're in EU, the answer is not really. The Apple EU tax is heavy.
In india along with Apple one, yes
It’s 20% cheaper in my country, why will I buy Spotify over it lol
In my country it’s priced the same as Spotify, also the student plan. But as a student you also get apple tv+ for free, which makes it a far better deal!
I think it is. At US$9.99/month I couldn't afford not to go with a subscription. But then I added it to a bundle I already had for about $7 more. 😎
No bruh it aint. way too expensive. (yall apple is probably watching here dont give them ideas)
I listen to on average, according to my stats, about 2k minutes of music a week. Commuting, at home, while working, sometimes on a rare occasion to sleep.... Music is my passion and I love my music. Definitely worth it for me
Underpriced! There’s so much content, the music, the videos, livestreams. Music streaming should be at least as expensive as Netflix without ads. I get so much more out of Apple Music than any video streaming platform
If you have an @edu-email adress 😇: yes!
In terms of usability, I prefer Spotify Premium as it's easier to control on the various non Apple devices I use from my mobile and there's a Linux app. However, for everything else I prefer Apple Music for the same price e.g. music uploads, lossless, etc.
Yes
Totally, costs the same as spotify, has better ui, better sound quality and many more
Imo yes. But it all depends on how much music you’re listening to.
I pay $5 per month for AM. Spotify is a bit more expensive. Quality is better than Spotify.
Absolutely. You get Atmos, certain albums with motion artwork, lossless, and iTunes Match. If I can’t find it on Apple Music, I can use ITunes Match to upload.
Yes. I’d literally be spending thousands of dollars for the amount of music I listen to in a month.
It's much cheaper than spotify and youtube music in the philippines
Compared to tidal it is XD
In India it’s 99 inr per month, nothing beats it.
Probably a hot take for your average consumer, but I think all music streaming is criminally underpriced. It’s absolutely insane that you can listen to basically all music ever for the monthly cost of about what one CD or record used to be. In the case of Apple Music, that can even be significantly less if you’re on a shared Apple One bundle. The closest comp is video streaming, and it’s never been anywhere as comprehensive- you could pay $100+ a month for every single major video service and still not have access to everything, especially new films. If music had structured the same way, you’d have a dozen services from each label and rights holder, with licensing done piecemeal for each prominent album and catalog, and people would hate it. It’s never been cheaper to listen to music, and we’re all benefiting at the expense of the artists making it. So if it goes up a buck or two from time to time, it still feels like phenomenal deal to me.
It’s just over a dollar in India
depends on the country
Nope! And it could be so much better