![]() ![]() Sources say that Apple Music will only have 3.5 million subscribers after November cancellations (15 million initially signed up for the trial period beginning June 30th). Spotify projects they will reach 100 million users by year’s end. Even Jay Z’s Tidal, which everyone in the industry had pretty much given up on, has a million paying subscribers. So how is Apple looking to win over new streaming customers? By making a better product than the rest? Nope! Apple Music’s UI is a disaster. Not only is it cluttered and completely nonintuitive, it messes up users’ owned music library. Some genius at Apple (pun intended) thought to combine the new Apple Music streaming service with people’s personal music libraries that everyone had taken great pains to curate, customize and purchase over the years. Music fans worldwide put their trust into Apple. ![]() Downdetector only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher than. It is common for some problems to be reported throughout the day. This chart shows a view of problem reports submitted in the past 24 hours compared to the typical volume of reports by time of day. And why wouldn’t they? The iTunes music library, player and store used to be fantastic. iTunes outages reported in the last 24 hours. You can’t wait this long to get into the streaming field and then drop the ball so hard. Use the RSS Feed Generator to incorporate lists of the bestselling and most popular. Link Maker also creates links to music, while the Apple Music Toolbox is optimised for creating Apple Music links. For that, I found that LinkMaker is able to return json data and also 1 result at a time. The best way to create links to apps, films, TV programmes, podcasts and books is Link Maker. So, how is Apple now trying to get users to signup for their horribly flawed new streaming service? By changing every new and existing iTunes link to point to Apple Music instead of iTunes. I am using LinkMaker to get iTunes details about song I am playing. I know you’re probably screaming, ‘why would Apple intentionally inhibit sales for their most profitable digital product?!’ Well Apple has the cash for this investment. They know streaming is the future of the music industry whether people stream on Apple or not. Apple is so late to the game, they are trying desperate measures. Spotify has worked its way into music’s vernacular and has become the generic term for streaming. Kleenex, Q-tips, Ziploc and now, Spotify. It’s simple to create links with badges that point to specific albums, apps, movies and more using Link Maker. ![]()
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