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Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by atombender »

RandallBrown wrote: post #21

This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago. Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.

Apple has long had a much better experience when it comes to offline use and private media.

With iCloud, tracks you add to your library are automatically uploaded to Apple's cloud and become available on all devices. That helps a lot because you don't have to resort to using some other player for that those obscure albums that aren't streaming anywhere. After all, while Apple and Spotify have a lot of music, there are still many holes in their inventories.

Apple has always been much nicer about offline track availability. Just click the download icon and the tracks will stay on your device. Spotify has had this feature, but it's been flaky. After Apple Music launched, they eventually added a "Download" toggle to albums, but only in the mobile app (it's there for playlists in the desktop app, for some reason).

Spotify has a 10,000 song limit that applies to adding (or "liking" as it's now called) to your library. You can keep more in playlists, but you can't "like" more than 10,000 songs, which is crazy. It's not a lot of songs. My jazz collection alone is more than that. Apple's limit is 100,000, as far as I can tell.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by The_rationalist »

kevin2r wrote: post #6
chrischen wrote: post #5

I’m curious what framework Apple uses for web now. Last I checked (a week ago) icloud.com is still implemented with SproutCore.

Looks like Ember for the most part. Look at the code, it's not minified, yet...

It would be nice to save the code and upload it to github.com, is there a tool to make this automatically?

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by president »

As much as I commend them for creating a web client for their music service, the UI looks like it was designed by an amateur. Can't really put my finger on it but it's something to do with the content alignment, the gradients used. I would have expected better from Apple.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by buzzert »

ValentineC wrote: post #41
RandallBrown wrote: post #21

This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago. Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.

> Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? The ability to upload one's library [1] is huge — I believe both Spotify and Apple Music still aren't very good with video game music. [1] iCloud Music Library: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204926

If you have a big collection of obscure/foreign music (video game music is a great example), then nothing beats Apple Music + iCloud Music Library and iTunes match.

You can use iTunes match to provide cloud-based high quality versions for music ripped from your CDs (or collected during your teenage Napster years).

Even better, being able to mix content from your iCloud Music Library and streamable content from Apple Music is a huge plus.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by dan1234 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #26
aphextron wrote: post #17

RIP Spotify.

Not really. I've never used Apple Music, but as far as I can tell, it has no real free tier (just song previews) and it has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Spotify's playlists. For example, regional playlists. Apple Music just has "Top 100 {country}" which is just radio pop music. Compare that to Spotify's Explore -> {Mexico,Colombia,Arab,etc} -> all the different subgenres. Spotify's free tier is a no-b…

> Also, even if Apple Music managed to be a Spotify clone, doesn't it only work on iOS/OSX?

Apple Music has been available on Android for a few years.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by bendavis381 »

ryanianian wrote: post #33

Whatever. I was really hoping to see some improvements to the music-organization and display aspects here but it looks like they just re-implemented the weird parts of iTunes using html5. For example: It drives me crazy how Apple Music emphasizes the idea that "Recently Added" is only grouped by albums . I don't add whole albums to my library, I add individual songs . I want to play all the songs I've recently added…

On iOS: Library -> Songs -> Sort by recently added

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by [deleted] »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #26
aphextron wrote: post #17

RIP Spotify.

Not really. I've never used Apple Music, but as far as I can tell, it has no real free tier (just song previews) and it has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Spotify's playlists. For example, regional playlists. Apple Music just has "Top 100 {country}" which is just radio pop music. Compare that to Spotify's Explore -> {Mexico,Colombia,Arab,etc} -> all the different subgenres. Spotify's free tier is a no-b…

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Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by radicaldreamer »

ryanianian wrote: post #47
MapleWalnut wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can create a genius (or maybe it’s called smart) playlist in iTunes that is ordered by recently added. It does exactly what you need.

Smart playlists are not displayed on cloud-based platforms (e.g. this webapp, sonos integrations, etc). I presume this is because they didn't want to implement the business-logic both on the server and on the native iTunes app.

I’ve never figured out why some Apple products are immensely well designed and some have basic aspects which don’t make sense and I guess it comes down to the people working on the products using them day to day or some exec who really uses an app day to day championing UX improvements.

Music in its current iteration seems driven by Apple’s need to become a services company and the music app which really last spoke to people internally was one in which your own music is portable, not a steaming music service.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by lainwashere »

This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and MacOS has iTunes, no electron non-sense.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Post by actuator »

RandallBrown wrote: post #21

This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago. Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.

Without even going into the merits of Spotify's playlists as you mentioned, one reason I would personally prefer Spotify over Apple Music even if we assume rest of the things equal would be to support a small player(compared to Apple). Apple, a company already well entrenched in so many fields controlling one more is something I would not prefer to see. They already are at a huge advantage in even controlling this market as owning iOS and iTunes makes it very easy for them to push their service.
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