Tim Cook worries that humanity is “being drained out of music”

fastcompany ^ | 8/8/2018 | BY MARK SULLIVAN

[Swordmaker]

Okie, The U2 album was not "pushed down" to Apple user's devices, nor was it "undeteable," as you mischaracterize it. It was made available to Apple users IF THEY WANTED IT for free as a GIFT from Apple and U2 in the iTunes Store. Nice Try at making a FREE OFFER sound like an invasion of people's devices with a lie.

[Swordmaker]

Apple CEO Tim Cook says he worries about Music choices losing the human touch when algorithms are being used to select music for listening. That's why Apple uses human curators for Apple's streaming services.—PING!

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[Swordmaker]

Tim...you could help by making iTunes free.

iTunes is free. . . are you referring to the subscription service?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

All I can say is it was Pushed down to my 6S and I couldn't delete it. I'm sure you remember there was some controversy at the time.

Additionally, I seem to remember they published some kind of fix so it could be removed from iTunes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Rap and for-money-only over-produced fake music drained the humanity decades ago.

The vitality, creativity and exuberance that was present from the late 50s to early 70s was incredible. Just listen to the Top 10 from each year and you’ll find so much variation and different styles. Not so true today.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

“And the music is all the same ...”

That’s by DESIGN, not Chance

The Four Chords That Killed Pop Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuGt-ZG39cU

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I don’t go past the 80’s stations.

[Swordmaker]

In Sacramento in the 60s and 70s, there was a junk shop on Folsom Boulevard, close to 35th Street near Alhambra, that sold old albums and 78s,, one record for a dollar, half a record for 50¢. Yup a broken half record for 50¢. He had piles of them. . .

He was quite looney... I asked him what someone would want a half record for and he said if they could find both halves they could glue them back together, , ,

[moovova]

I thought you had to pay for music that you buy. Like $1.99 or so. I’m on an Android.

[dfwgator]

When Will The Bass Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8

[Tax-chick]

You’re not supposed to drive or do much of anything the whole day. Also, it costs more.

[1Old Pro]

Joni Mitchell on the turntable for crying-out-loud.

Going round and round like a circle game. I wonder how ole Joni is doing lately.

[Psalm 73]

"I wonder how ole Joni is doing lately."

Not well at all - saw a pic of her last year - sad.
I prefer to remember her vinyl days....she had such a great jazz voice, too.

[MoochPooch]

I think MTV killed the music. Once silly visuals took over, they obscured poor vocals & everything else.

[Fightin Whitey]

And what, pray tell, does Tim Cook know about “humanity?”

Knows quite a lot about draining the meat flute, to be sure.

[avenir]

Worst piece of software EVER. I still refuse to believe Apple wrote it.

[Hodar]

Heartily agree.
I remember back in the 70’s and seeing rack after rack of albums. The sheer number of a available artists was staggering. Then each artist had multiple albums. This was selections of music.

Isot a music store today and the number of artists is a fraction of what there was 30 years ago. And all the music is the same. Or it’s rap and the talent required to produce rap is minimal. Gone are the audiophile quality recordings.

I blame the music industry.

[House Atreides]

I’m guessing it contains subliminal messages Apple wants me to hear!
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I ran some subliminal message detection software and found the message that played repeatedly ...

...It said “Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions...”

[SunkenCiv]

I think he’s wrong — I’d rather be able to put my car radio on shuffle play, rather than listen to the same old-assed tired-ass human-compiled canned playlist the area stations seem to use.

[Fresh Wind]

Ha! That reminds me of a record dealer I used to know, may he RIP. One particularly obnoxious customer was trying to argue the price down on a dollar record; he only wanted to pay half that. My friend finally had enough. He snapped the record in half and handed the pieces back to the customer and said “now it’s 50 cents”.