{"id":21228,"date":"2018-04-12T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21228"},"modified":"2018-04-12T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:59:46","slug":"eliminating-itunes-store-music-downloads-in-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/12\/eliminating-itunes-store-music-downloads-in-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating iTunes Store Music Downloads in March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Resnikoff<\/a> (via Dan Masters<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Apple is now experiencing meteoric growth on its streaming music platform, Apple Music. But that growth is directly impacting Apple’s old-line downloads store, for obvious reasons. And, ultimately hastening its demise.<\/p>

Just last week, Apple executive Jimmy Iovine pointed to a shutdown when ‘people stop buying’. Now, sources inside the company are pointing to a firm date for a planned shutdown of the iTunes music download store. Earlier, these same sources pointed to an ‘early 2019’ shutdown<\/a>, though internal roadmaps now include a March 31st, 2019 phase-out of the service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apple has denied that it plans to get rid of downloads, but the rumors persist.<\/p>\n

I, for one, like downloads and have no interest in subscribing to a streaming service. If Apple eliminated downloads, I would probably start buying downloads from Amazon. I had been preferring the iTunes Store because of the integration with Apple’s devices.<\/p>\n

If streaming becomes the only way to get new music, that would significantly reduce the value of existing collections of purchased music. Either your collection stays frozen in time or you have to subscribe to get new music, making the already purchased songs (at least those that the streaming service offers) redundant.<\/p>\n

Also, I would expect the user experience for downloaded music to get worse, as has already been happening<\/a> since the introduction of Apple Music.<\/p>\n\n

Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Maybe it’s the end of certain distribution contracts, and they’re not worth renewing under worse terms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Paul Frazier<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Problem with that is you can't use Apple Music songs in iMovie, so they'd need a fix for that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Eliminating iTunes Store Music Downloads<\/a>, Streaming Your Own Music<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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