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Post by YokoZar »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #194
misterprime wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The at-home karaoke experience is pretty horrible. Companies put a high price tag on access to limited catalogs with hit and miss quality. Oftentimes, the musical bed is low quality midi music and the lyrics may or may not be timed properly. I'm thrilled to see this announcement and will likely buy my first Apple TV because of it and switch my Pandora subscription to Apple Music.

> The at-home karaoke experience is pretty horrible As long as you have a 0 latency Mic setup then just that and YouTube searching Karaoke versions with AdBlocker works beautifully.

Most "karaoke versions" of songs are by cover bands.

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Post by billforsternz »

sixothree wrote: post #32
joegahona wrote: post #5

Is this akin to karaoke? (The word never appears on the page.) > Apple today announced Apple Music Sing, an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favorite songs with adjustable vocals1 and real-time lyrics. Users can already "sing along to their favorite songs" -- this feels like a wasted opportunity in the first sentence to explain the differentiator. It feels like they're misusing/misunderst…

I had a hard time understanding what they are offering as well and came here to find out. Is this for people in the same room? If so, maybe some vague reference to karaoke is merited. Is it for sharing with other people over the internet? edit: ultimately I could care less (but not by much) about using it; I am just curious about what they offer and how they compete.

You could care a little bit less but not a lot less? Inevitably (doing the math) that means you must really care a lot right?

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Post by bambax »

notpushkin wrote: post #75

People will definitely rip no-vocal versions out of there (if they are good quality, that is). I see some pretty neat implications: - Young artists can (illegally) use beats by popular producers. Young producers can listen to various tracks and better understand some techniques that were shadowed by vocals before. - More bootleg remixes of popular tracks. Things that weren't possible by just slicing and sampling the…

There are many services or apps/plugins that can do this. I think the promise Apple is making isn't necessarily that it will be better, but that they will have done it prior for many songs in their catalog, so that the stems are immediately available.

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Post by SkyPuncher »

pilsetnieks wrote: post #8

> and can be enjoyed on iPhone, iPad, and the new Apple TV 4K But the old Apple TV 4K is not powerful enough for displaying text on a TV, even though any old iPhone is? I get that they want to push device and service adoption but they should pick a lane, either push users to upgrade devices, or push to sign up to paid services. Pushing for both at the same time is greedy.

I'm noticing this trend out of Apple on nearly all of their devices. I understand it, but worried about where it's trending towards.

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Post by bcrescimanno »

I'm excited for this feature. My brother purchased a small karaoke machine for my daughter for her birthday this year. It connects to her iPad via Bluetooth; but, so far, she's only been able to use her regular iTunes library for music. This is because the "karaoke music service" pushed in the box for the and available on the app store was a subscription for $19.99 PER WEEK.

I don't care if their audio processing to drop the volume of the lyrics isn't perfect. It will give my daughter the whole Apple Music catalog to sing along with and without the side of price-gouging.

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Post by Thorrez »

reaperducer wrote: post #172
Thorrez wrote: post #153

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That makes sense when there's audio that Apple hasn't seen before. With Apple Music Sing, it makes more sense to do that processing once in the datacenter.

it makes more sense to do that processing once in the datacenter. Since Apple is all about on-device processing with so many of its features, going back-and-forth to the data center doesn't seem to be its style these days. That's more of a Google thing. And no one can accuse Apple of telling its advertisers that you start your day with Funky Cold Medina.

There's no extra back and forth. You have to fetch the songs from the datacenter in the first place, right? So you fetch the additional data at the same time.

If Apple wanted to support this for user-provided mp3s then on-device would make sense. It doesn't sound like they support that though.

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Post by jagged-chisel »

> “Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service,”

I do this ... but because I have no idea what that phrase was, not because I'm singing along.

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Post by lilyball »

vlunkr wrote: post #208

Here's a question, is it copyright infringement to serve modified versions of a song? We know that attempts to censor movies have not held up in court, how is this different? Did all the publishers agree to this in their contract with Apple?

They're not serving modified versions of the song.
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