Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
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#3And here I was thinking they were fighting a lost battle.
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#4I’ve been an unhappy subscriber since it started. Siri commands and Apple Music are essential when driving and thus I’m stuck with it(only use it while driving which is frequently).
After three years it still sucks for me because...
- bloated UX
- try asking Siri to play all your “Recently Added,” songs without creating a new playlist.
- how can I discover new music when driving? I can ask Siri play similar songs to current song playing but what I need is Apple Music to shuffle all my songs and randomly add new/similar songs that compare to my entire and eclectic song playlist.
- there are instances where Apple Music/Siri plays non-copyrighted songs ie. cheesy horrible and lame covers of public domain Xmas songs. Makes me feel ripped off
Spotify is better but totally unsafe to use while driving vs. Crapple Music.
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#5I have very few complaints about apple music, and most of them are because I regard the Atomic Unit Of Music to be the studio album.
1. No Tool. :(
2. No easy way to reorder search results to be album first.
3. Date of original album release is buried.
4. Hard to filter by "studio album" vs "live album" vs "compilation album" vs "greatest hits album".
5. Siri can't help; "play me the third album by the rolling stones" doesn't help, and neither do i have a voice-controlled "tell me what the album names by X are and let me pick one" interface.
My impression is that no streaming service does these things.
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#6Sad. The UI of Spotify is much better - less taps to get where you want to go, dark theme, and it actually has song handoff between devices and a dedicated desktop app for the Mac, none of which Apple Music has. I can't help but think this is because of Apple's monopolistic practice of only allowing Apple Music to integrate with Siri.
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#7In Australia apple music is given away for free with a few of our mobile providers for free. Is the same in the USA? I dont know a single apple music user in Australia. Spotify is a much better user experience.
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#8I have very few complaints about apple music, and most of them are because I regard the Atomic Unit Of Music to be the studio album. 1. No Tool. :( 2. No easy way to reorder search results to be album first. 3. Date of original album release is buried. 4. Hard to filter by "studio album" vs "live album" vs "compilation album" vs "greatest hits album". 5. Siri can't help; "play me the third album by the rolling stones…
Has the UX gotten better? I tried it back when it first came out for the free 3 month trial and I went back to paying for spotify because it was so horrible.
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#9I’ve been an unhappy subscriber since it started. Siri commands and Apple Music are essential when driving and thus I’m stuck with it(only use it while driving which is frequently). After three years it still sucks for me because... - bloated UX - try asking Siri to play all your “Recently Added,” songs without creating a new playlist. - how can I discover new music when driving? I can ask Siri play similar songs to…
Google Assistant will happily play you Spotify songs on Android. Obviously Apple won't allow integration with third party software on iPhone.
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#10Honestly, I can't imagine switching to Apple Music. Speaking as a guy who owns an iPhone and a Mac. I love being able to smoothly control playback from any device. I love how seamless the experience is, I've only tried the Apple Music Trial when it first came out and I can't see any possible reason to switch to it now.
Spotify is excellent for music discovery, and I love the top songs and everything. It's perfect. It's the kind of software I wish I could make someday.