I\u2019m losing ad-free and unlimited skips<\/a> by foregoing my Apple Music subscription).<\/p>\nIn fact, Apple Music has cost me money. I used to have a 2 Gigabyte Verizon data plan that I shared between my iPad and iPhone. It was great. I disabled data for iTunes & Music on my devices and instead would sync with iTunes directly over USB. Now with Apple Music, if I want to utilize the \u201cFor You\u201d curated playlists, I have to enable cellular and the result, 4-5 gigabytes of data per month is being spent on Apple Music. I tripled my data consumption which costs me an extra $30-$40 per month. I think the reason why is \u201cmake offline\u201d I generally mark something offline before I go to bed, then grab my phone the next morning and go to work. The \u201cmake offline\u201d task is still running for a playlist with 1500 songs and then all day my phone is eating many hundreds of megabytes of data.<\/p>\n
Finally, if I try to save data and pre-download \u201cMake this song offline\u201d in Music for iOS, the songs take about 30-45 seconds per song to download over my 100 megabit Comcast connection with 2 WiFi Radios in my house with low signal noise. If I want to make 75 Cold play songs available offline, it takes about 3 hours to do that. Remember when we used to complain that Syncing to a first generation iPod took 10 seconds per song over FireWire? Welcome to 2001! :)<\/p>\n
So Apple Music to me was a list of curated playlists with songs I already owned \/ were already on my iPhone but yet were being streamed from Apple and costing me $30 a month in data and in offline mode, would take many days to cache music for offline listening and would just drain my battery and cost me more data.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t really know why I can\u2019t get into streaming music. Maybe because I\u2019m old fashioned and love the music I already have? Maybe I hate paying a recurring fee for Data + Streaming when I can just buy a CD and own the album forever and ever? I liked Spotify a lot because it actually helped me to discover new music. Their playlists were really good and, when I used Facebook, it would provide things my friends were listening to so I discovered new non-pop music that way but Spotify\u2019s offline music was stuck at 2,000 songs so I couldn\u2019t really carry the music with me. Plus, it didn\u2019t work with my iPod Classic (Apple Music does\u2019t either) so when I\u2019m on a camping trip or in Europe or working out, the Apple Music playlists can\u2019t even be stored on my iPod.<\/p>\n
Okay, maybe I am old fashioned?<\/p>\n
My sisters who are in their teens that have never bought a CD in their life probably love streaming music. They are never away from cell \/ wifi service and they can always listen to the latest new release pop music for a recurring $10 a month or share their subscription for $15 a month. Such an awesome deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I just don\u2019t want to rely on data and a subscription model to listen to music I already own. I think it\u2019s as simple as that. I do use iTunes Radio at work sometimes because I don\u2019t have to think about what\u2019s coming up next and the algorithm is way better than Pandora. iTunes Radio will still work without Apple Music but it appears I\u2019ll have advertisements which is a bummer. I hate ads. Luckily, my Apple keyboard has a mute button. Problem solved.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If I can get better new music recommendations from Apple and offline downloads that actually work along with streaming that works on my very weak cell service up here in New Hampshire? I might join again. I like the interface a lot of Apple Music. I just think I\u2019m not the use case for any streaming service. Hell, I download YouTube videos to my computer so I can watch them offline without using data or dealing with buffering issues or ads or Adobe Flash. I don\u2019t know of anyone that downloads YT videos. I still don\u2019t like YT because full screen is littered with annotations, ads, overlays, \u2018cards\u2019 and all of these distractions that detract from the video. I also like watching everything on my television instead of a tiny laptop screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 21st century is not going to treat me well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m also a little bummed that I sold my iPhone yesterday in anticipation for getting an iPhone 6S next week and my Apple Watch is not usable even as a time-piece because no iPhone is linked to it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry this is a bit of a rant. Everything from Apple is great. I just think all technology is just getting away from me. Everything requires daily charging and a constant data connection or constantly to be connected to another device. It\u2019s like my digital life is just one big multi-function printer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Can\u2019t wait to go camping again. Nature is great and doesn\u2019t need a subscription to be enjoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s 3 Month Music subscription will end soon and I\u2019ve decided to cancel. Why? 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