Apple Music vs Spotify

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heh

Me and my 9 pals.

apple music just deleted a saved playlist while i was listening to it. in the middle of playing a song. these poll results are correct.

Looks like Apple have a lot of work to do

AA, you've had more problems with AM than anyone I know. I'm worried that if you continue to use AM, you will be winked out of existence. Please back yourself up.

I'm going with google play for now. Somewhat comically, the search function is its main drawback right now. It often shows me stuff I didn't ask for (like totally different artists from the one I searched for) and they mysteriously removed all genres. I think they're bringing them back soon though. There's no curation at the moment but after trying to get along with apple for a while now I'd say it's all for the better. Plus, you can upload 50 000 tracks for free. That sure helps.

Somewhat comically, the search function is its main drawback right now.

Lol yeah I use Google Play too and the search function is close to useless. You'd really think that'd be one thing Google wouldn't have a problem with. I've been a bit surprised at the mostly positive comments about it in these threads actually. I'm using the free tier for the ability to store 50,000 of my own tracks in the cloud -- it's nice to be able to stream my library though Sonos without the computer having to be on -- and I'd also expected to use it as a quick way to swap music in and out of my phone without having to sync to iTunes, but in addition to the search issue the UI on the iOS app is just terrible. So painful to scroll through artists in those big bubbles (which I often have to do since search doesn't work). There's no way I'd pay for this with the app in the condition it's in now. Also I can't help feeling that on the occasions I do use the app to play music on my phone it sounds very slightly less clear than other apps -- though that may be a purely psychological response to my annoyance with it.

unbelievable to me how many basic design flaws these services have, considering what's at stake

I was going to give Spotify another chance but you still can't search local files on the desktop. They promised this would be fixed in a future version but it's been 6 months.

spotify's good at encouraging people to vote up suggested improvements into what seems to be a graveyard of suggested improvements. but then i see stuff like discover weekly and fresh finds, and all's forgiven.

AA, you've had more problems with AM than anyone I know. I'm worried that if you continue to use AM, you will be winked out of existence. Please back yourself up.

otm. i'd reset my phone and itunes database if i thought it'd help, but i don't think it'd help.

My problem is that this was a functioning part of the desktop app that I used everyday and they just removed it one day. Now I have to scroll through thousands of songs by title? It's absurd.

Most of their developers probably use the desktop version but how many have local files on their work computers? Just sayin..

I guess most people just don't have their own files anymore.

^^^ I find this insane btw

What is Apple's coverage like for classical music and dance music? Spotify is pretty great for the former and very patchy for the latter - suppose it depends on how many smaller labels Apple have on board?

<3 apple music great service

hey bono

Spotify has been fantastic for finding recordings of a lot of the choral music I've sung over the years, as evidenced by my Unbelievable Choral Works playlist

link pls

Some Dylan songs I couldn't find on Spotify but are on Apple Music:
Positively 4th Street
Can You Please Crawl Out Window?

and seems to be a lot more Dylan. Perhaps this was already discussed on a Dylan thread

apple music seems to enjoy replacing album art with mystery dylan.

seriously apple music is fucking weird who even though this was a good idea

iTunes has always been bad at album art. Granted, it's a tough job, but you'd think they would at least get the artist right.

https://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/6bWnlWmCk45LxCffWeTSpR

Sorry, just saw the request for that spotify playlist. Hope you're still interested, sendalai!

still not having any of these issues Autumn has with apple music.

Autumn, have you double-checked to make sure the "Turn Apple Music Into A Broken Nightmare" toggle is off?

damn toggle keeps turning self back on

last week i thought "hey maybe it's safe to try this thing again" and it had deleted another 60-odd tracks

Turned off the auto-renew and shut it all down. No thanks.

how do you turn off autorenew again? i turned off "show apple music" in prefs

app store -> apple id -> view apple id -> subscriptions -> manage

So Spotify is way better for making my own playlists and seeing shared playlists - albeit with virtually no reasonable access to my own files (this wasn't a problem before the change 6 mos ago). Also, Discover Weekly is good - although more as just a personalized radio station.

However, Apple music's "For You" playlists are *really* good. They're like comps I would have actually bought back in the old days. I've saved a lot of them for future listening. I'm so used to doing my own curation, either through my own files or Spotify, that it's strange to give up control and just play something curated by someone else. I guess it's another case of letting go and just letting Apple take care of things which has been an ultimately freeing experience for other things.

I'll have to decide whether I miss the control, but I think I'm ultimately listening more with Apple Music and feeling like I have new comps I'm looking forward to actually listening to (instead of always feeling like I still have a comp to make myself - which of course I never listen to once I make it).

All that said, I'm still on the fence.

my three months is up. def sticking w spotify

I never tried apple music so cant compare it to Spotify but I'm happy enough with it though I dont really use it a lot anymore. I still get my tenners worth

Going with Apple Music. Spotify lost me when it lost stars. And the inability to load my local files.

let me know what you think in a few months

no way I'm going over till they up the match limit to 100k songs tho.

I'm digging Apple Music so far. Wish it had a standalone desktop client like Spotify's though.

isnt that what iTunes is tho?

itunes sucks

isnt that what iTunes is tho?

It's Apple Music + a million other things (podcasts, ios apps, a file library, etc.). The user experience is much worse than using the Apple Music app itself.

True

Apple Music on an iPhone is a seamless joy to use. But iTunes takes soooooooo long to load on my computer, it's a headache. Spotify was slow, too, though, so it's an easy decision. Sticking with Apple Music as the free trial ends.

my spotify playlists will still exist if I cut back from paid to unpaid, right?

yes

Apple Music on an iPhone is a seamless joy to use.

are we using the same apple music because mine literally steps out of my phone and punches me in the face