{"id":20316,"date":"2018-01-26T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20316"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:41:56","slug":"recommendations-for-buying-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/recommendations-for-buying-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations for Buying Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myfreakinname.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/hey-apple-what-music-should-i-buy.html\">Ruffin Bailey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/myfreakinname.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/hey-apple-what-music-should-i-buy.html\"><p>Seems like folks like me are being underserved. It&rsquo;s not that we don&rsquo;t like to buy music. In many cases, it&rsquo;s the opposite. I buy more albums &amp; tracks each year than I&rsquo;d like to count.<\/p><p>Why don&rsquo;t any of these music cloud services provide good, ad-free recommendation services for music buyers, not renters, like me? They&rsquo;re sitting on millions of people&rsquo;s listening habits. Why not convince me to buy more with spot-on suggestions?<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Why can&rsquo;t folks who are stuck in 2007 get good recommendations from Apple Music? Why can&rsquo;t I play even the stuff I&rsquo;ve purchased from Apple on the Android Apple Music app? Why doesn&rsquo;t Apple try to <em>sell<\/em> and sell <em>me<\/em> good music? Why does Apple Music feel like a closed system, and the iTunes Music Store feel a little Tower a month or two before they started discounting for clearance?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/eliminating-itunes-store-music-downloads\/\">Eliminating iTunes Store Music Downloads<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruffin Bailey: Seems like folks like me are being underserved. It&rsquo;s not that we don&rsquo;t like to buy music. In many cases, it&rsquo;s the opposite. I buy more albums &amp; tracks each year than I&rsquo;d like to count.Why don&rsquo;t any of these music cloud services provide good, ad-free recommendation services for music buyers, not renters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1230,31,1472,189,30,1529,157,1257],"class_list":["post-20316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-music","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-itunesstore","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-music","tag-spotify"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20317,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20316\/revisions\/20317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}