DALLAS – Apple today launched its new service streaming (streaming) music subscription will give access to more than 30 million songs and allow you to compete with established firms in this growing sector as Spotify, Pandora and Rhapsody .
The new service, called Apple Music, became available Tuesday in more than 100 countries through the new update of iOS 8.4 for iPhone and iPad mobile devices, and also for Mac computer.
Apple Music allows users to listen to songs and albums to select their favorite artists and also offer a 50 “radio channels” programmed by humans.
The new service will also offer access Beats 1, a radio station broadcast live music 24 hours a day and will lead by “renowned DJs” from cities like Los Angeles, New York and London programs.
The company said the radio station Beats 1 is designed to give music a cultural center that has been diluted since the digital revolution shook the landscape of the music industry.
Include Apple Music feature “For You” that suggest based on the user’s listening habits of music and “Connect” a forum that will allow musicians to reach their fans with new songs.
This service will be available for free during the first three months and at the end of this period the user can listen to unlimited music with millions of options 9.99 dollars per month or $ 14.99 for a multiple subscription for six.
For those who do not wish to subscribe, the new service will allow them to listen to music for free commercial and unable selection to your taste.
The new service was expected since Apple acquired in 2014 the company Beats Electronics, which owns BeatsMusic.
Apple through this open a new business front in the distribution of music online, then your store iTunes music sales have declined.
The sale of “singles” or songs have fallen continuously for two years in the United States, however the music distribution services on the Internet have shown solid growth.
Spotify, who heads the market and debuted in the US in 2011, it has 15 million paying subscribers worldwide and Pandora, which distributes free music business deploying, has over 80 million active users and had more than four million subscribers under payment without advertising.
Although Apple is late to this segment, the company based in Cupertino, California, has advantages that could catapult quickly to place as industry leader.
The new service will automatically appear in hundreds of millions Users of iPhone, iPad, iPod and other accessories of the company, when they update the operating system of your appliances.
Apple Music will also use automated attendant capabilities Siri, which may be requested by the music program voice command.
Another feature that Apple Music differentiate from competitors, will not require the user to stay connected to the internet to listen to your favorite music as happens today in streaming music services.
Apple Music can copy any song available albums or playlists you want your devices, so you can play when no network access you have.
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