Apple music

Just a thought, but since when haven you known Apple to do anything that doesn’t make them money, like allowing someone to stream free music for public use (i.e. inside DJ software)? Besides, that decision is not only up to Apple I think, it would be up to the owners of the rights.

And the only real advantage I can see, imho, of having a streaming service at your disposal while on a gig, is to be able to play that rare request that you don’t have in your collection. As I said in another post, how important does that request have to be to warrant something extensive as an integrated streaming service in DJ software?

I use iTunes to organize my Music collection.
I avoided iTunes Match, cause Traktor would be confused, when files get replaced. Cue points, beat griding all lost.
The new Apple Music puts all your music in the cloud and acts like iTunes Match.
Should I and digital DJs avoid Apple Music or will it leave my Music MP3 collection alone?

Apple music works excellent for what it is advertised: A STREAMING MUSIC SERVICE

It is not meant (and they actually say this on their website!):
– to be stored locally
– to be used without paying for songs forever
– to be played live through DJ software (their EULA actually says so!)
– to be used as a DJ pool (their EULA forbids it)

Actually with Spotify IT IS THE SAME. Just because you can stream music in djay or djay pro does not mean it is legal to do so openly. Actually djay themselves answered in a blog post that it is meant “for DJs at home to practice and experience songs” as the Spotify EULA and contract you enter when using the service clearly forbids you to play this songs live for an audience.

So I do not get the uproar, it clearly works as designed and as advertised.
And it did not do anything “miraculously” to my existing collection, all my own files (that I legally purchased or ripped of my own CDs/vinyl) are safe and untouched after activating it, as it HAS NOTHING TO DO with iTunes Match, which I totally agree is total bogus.