Apple Music makes it so difficult to work with your own music. It's seems to prefer the Apple Music catalog over my personal music. I'll ask Siri to play music that is in my catalog and it'll play something else off Apple Music. The music player is the most unintuitive user interface known to man. Getting to my music is like a trek through the amazon looking for a lost tribe. I'm done... To add insult to injury, you just can't turn off Apple Music, you have to turn of automatic renewal and let it expire.
There are subtle signs that Steve Jobs is gone. Steve made some bonehead moves over his career and was not infallible, but releasing a music subscription service that was lobotomized and did not prioritize the music you've purchased or "matched" with Apple over the years seems anathema to how Steve felt about music.
Set it to HD and turn up the volume!
Brings me back to Jack Black in High Fidelity. Watch the entire clip... And enjoy.
You have to watch the entire clip. The miracle towards the end is worth it.
I highly recommend you read the full article at they NY Times like below.
In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art...
...Their financial fate turns out to be much harder to measure, but I endeavored to try...
...The closest data set we have to a bird’s-eye view of the culture industry can be found in the Occupational Employment Statistics, an enormous compendium of data assembled by the Labor Department that provides employment and income estimates...
...The best approximation of the creative-class group as a whole is Group 27-0000, or Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports and Media Occupations...
...the creative class modestly outperformed the rest of the economy,...
...The problem with the O.E.S. data is that it doesn’t track self-employed workers, who are obviously a large part of the world of creative production. ...
...Could the surge in musicians be accompanied by a parallel expansion in the number of broke musicians? The income data suggests that this just isn’t true. ...
...figures seem to suggest that music, the creative field that has been most threatened by technological change, has become more profitable in the post-Napster era — not for the music industry, of course, but for musicians themselves. Somehow the turbulence of the last 15 years seems to have created an economy in which more people than ever are writing and performing songs for a living...
from "The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t" -nytimes.com
It's nice to see a technology show that takes the technology aspects very seriously. When you see a hacker typing at a screen the commands are real and what they do is move the story forward. Soooo much better than Scorpion which uses phrases like "I'm hacking the cars operational mainframe".
