Atomic Playboy

So, Apple unveiled their shiny new toys today. The Apple Music Store is a good idea, but the music selection is still very limited. Of the twenty random artists in my music collection I searched for, I got zero results. Unless you count some random redneck country hillbilly music when I searched for God Module.

As Magnus noted, Apple makes the typical corporate thing and presents an obvious thing as something they just invented; in this case fair usage rights. Though you can only listen to the music on three different computers. While consumers do have fair rights, the companies aren’t forced to make it possible to exercise that right.

This, however, is the wave of the future. $0.99 for a song or $9.99 for the whole album is very affordable — you can either pick just the songs you like or get the whole album for less than a hardcopy would cost. What I haven’t been able to find out is if you are allowed to re-download songs if you lose your local copy in some way, or if you have to buy them again. I suppose Apple already has thought of this and tied the purchased tracks to your account.

Here’s an older post where I rant about evil record companies.