I use Apple Music for various reasons, but where I am (Denmark) _everyone_ uses Spotify.
Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
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#132Honestly, 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…
I feel like the only person on the planet who finds spotify annoying and its library shallow. I really am not trying to sound pretentious. Full disclosure I say this as someone who doesn't pay for their service, so I don't know how it is if you do, but if you shuffle play an artist- it will automatically play suggested songs. This makes 0 sense to me. I specifically wanted to listen to that artist and if I wanted sug…
> I feel like the only person on the planet who finds spotify annoying and its library shallow.
I've run into this as well, Apple Music seems to have much wider coverage than Spotify, even when it comes to fairly mainstream 'indie' labels. Both services have big holes in their catalogs, though, and sometimes when deep diving into particular artists or labels, I find YouTube more likely to have rarer albums and such (usually recorded from vinyl by some kind soul).
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Heh, my biggest complaint wih spotify is that I can’t use it with my carefully curated itunes library, including my many smart playlists.
I can definitely remember this being possible a while back when I was using Spotify.
Yea, it still forces you to listen through the spotify player rather than itunes (which is not at all surprising) and they never supported smart playlists.
Again, not surprising, but certainly enough for me to prefer apple music. The player is just way, way better for my needs.
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#134Honestly, 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…
Another perspective: I am less concerned with music discovery or seamless device hand-offs. I know what I want to listen to. As a former club DJ, I accrued a large amount of records that are simply unavailable via streaming networks. I recently starting ripping a lot of those vinyl records to mp3. I have tried spotify, google play music, and Apple Music. Apple Music is the clear winner when it comes to the importing,…
Why would you rip your collection to a lossy format like MP3? Sure, you're probably going to explain how you don't hear a difference which is fair, but a lossless format like FLAC or ALAC (recommended if you're in the Apple eco system) has other advantages besides superior audio quality. It allows you to convert to any other format, including MP3, at a later point. Storage is cheap these days and there's really no excuse not to use a lossless format. You can set up iTunes to automatically transcode everything you sync to your mobile device to a smaller, lossy format while leaving the lossless master copy untouched at home.
The one thing you probably want to avoid is regretting your choice and ripping your collection again because you opted for the lesser format on the first try.
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#135I switched from Apple Music to Spotify solely because of Spotify's awesome recommendation engine.
Can't even think of switching back to Apple Music after witnessing Spotify's magic.
I guess the recommendation system will keep on giving an extra edge to Spotify over the years to come.
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> Apple Music is on desktop Not in a dedicated app. The integration with iTunes is a bit of a mess and brings all of the iTunes weirdness along for the ride. I really wish Apple would break iTunes apart...
Heh, my biggest complaint wih spotify is that I can’t use it with my carefully curated itunes library, including my many smart playlists.
Is there a way to create smart playlists in iOS Apple Music without using my Mac? Google searches for me turn up nothing.
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What's the issue, I am pretty sure it's a bad idea to eat rotten food.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We eventually ban accounts that keep doing that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most my comments are not unsubstantiated. However, when comes to Apple. I am not going to be nice. I don't like how they closed off their ecosystem is. I hate how they do stupid things in for sake of fashion. They claim to innovative, but really just repackage existing tech, and force you into their ecosystem. It's just an attempt of vendor lock in. Then you have mindless sheeple drooling over their products. However, I would prefer apple just went the way of the dodo.
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Google music has been the best for me: - IT doesn't block it at work(it blocks spotify) - I don't have to install anything - I don't see ads on youtube - it has all of my music that came from CDs backed up to it - I regularly discover new music through their Radio feature so long as the artist/song isn't super popular
If your job blocks Spotify and you are not in a secure area (government) you might want to find a better place to work. It just seems wrong in today’s world.
Playing music at work comes with some pretty weird legal implications so I can totally see why some companies would block online music services so they don't accidentally crate public performances of copyrighted works.
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#139I tried Apple Music for 6 months, and spent that time diligently training it to my tastes. My latest "favourites mix" had 12 songs that I had to mark as "dislike" after all that training. Likewise the "for you"playlists are garbage - just because I like a couple of songs by guitar bands doesn't mean I want to listen to hours and hours of them.
Apple Music on Apple Watch 3 is amazing - leaving a phone at home is strangely liberating.
But, for me, the big advantage of Spotify is I don't always need to think about what I want to listen to - I can pick an artist and listen or I can be lazy and just hit a Daily Mix which plays stuff I really like. Asking Apple Music to play "some reggae" or whatever invariably ends up with it playing a load of music I really don't like, even after all that training.
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On T-mobile in the US, spotify streaming doesn’t count against mobile data quota ;)
But if a fixed-line provider did that it would be considered a violation of network neutrality and the pitchforks come out. How can a future challenger to Spotify compete in such am environment? etc
Easy. Ask T-mobile to be included. It's free for the provider and from everything I know, relatively easy for a provider of legal video or audio content.