I thought Spotify was much worse. The silent playlist song cap alone was infuriating. I constantly had issues syncing between devices. UI feedback was miserable making it so you didn’t understand whether a button was pushed due to the callbacks over cellular, not that Apple Music is much better here. The worst part of Apple Music is the distinction between Apple Music and your library. You can rate things in your library but not Apple Music - which I’m guessing is an artifact of iTunes days when you had MP3s locally. The like feature in Apple Music is also terrible compared to Spotify
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The integration with HomePod is very nice, I can just go ”Hey Siri, play Tom Waits” or whatever. Maybe that works with Spotify, I dunno, but the integration with Apple Music is obviously seamless, it just works.
Actually it does work with Spotify, and pretty well in my experience. I guess Apple are wary of antitrust rules.
Yep, until a couple years ago you had to say “Hey Siri, play Tom Waits on Spotify,” otherwise it would always try Apple Music even if you didn’t have a subscription or the app wasn’t installed. But they changed it - probably for antitrust reasons, like you said - and now it’s pretty seamless.
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> I can play any music I want right now for a £10/month fee. Any music? Nope. Maybe the popular stuff that plays on the radio.
I personally don’t find that to be true. Time for some objective anecdata. There is a site [0] that ranks how “mainstream” one’s listening habits are based on their last.fm profile. Punching in my username, I get ranked as 12% mainstream (i.e., only 12% of last.fm users listen to music more obscure than mine). Keep in mind, this is relative to last.fm users, whose musical tastes are probably more obscure than the gen…
I don't know how well iTunes tracks with music available on other streaming platforms, but when I imported my library of ~700 CDs to iTunes Match about 40% of my tracks matched, and 60% had to be uploaded, so I suspect that for me there is a lot that isn't on any platform (but is on iTunes match.) Which is why I don't subscribe to any streaming service.
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#164The app performance of Apple Music on MacOS and iOS is an abomination. It's consistently twice as slow as Spotify, from loading playlists to loading search results and playing a song. I would be ashamed if I worked on the Apple Music team. How can a person with any self respect go to work every day and be okay with Apple Music in it's current state?
there is probably some context missing, i always prefer to give the devs the benefit of the doubt.
although i currently work at faang as a contractor and certainly the level of ability is not what you might think from the outside.
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#165I just don't understand why Apple Music search is so bad. Sometimes only exact match returns albums. It's so bad that appending "Apple Music" in google works better.
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#166I've had apple music full-on kernel panic & restart my m1 macbook air, I've had it crash finder & do all sorts of crazy render ghosting stuff on screen like duplicating app icons, I've had it make the OS forget my login keychain key so every app/agent/process pops up a dialog asking for it until I reboot, not to mention the airplay bugs. I've used iTunes since I first got a mac about 15 years ago so I'm not keen to change but Music on MacOS is an absolute carcrash
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#167I like Apple Music because it integrates well with the Apple line. More importantly though it is one of the highest paying per stream to artists [1]. Streaming needs to be much more lucrative for artists and consumer choice helps that. It is nice to be able to buy the music as well if you want to support. Being part of Apple One is huge as well. The latest music streaming royalty rates are as follows. PLATFORM ROYALT…
Tidal is pretty great and worth a shot. Their recommendations are about as good as Spotify and they don’t try to shove podcasts into your ears.
Tidal has a long history of shady practices and failing to pay artists royalties. It reached a point where they were investigated by Norway for data fraud and faced class action lawsuits from labels and artists.
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#168I’ve had Apple Music convert saved songs from explicit to censored in the past. The software must be written so poorly. Another good one: If you start a station on macOS. You can’t hit previous song to go back. If you’re on iOS you can… Apple Music is pretty terrible. So many times there’s no UI feedback when pressing things and they just glitch into some new state seconds after pressing things
> I’ve had Apple Music convert saved songs from explicit to censored in the past. The software must be written so poorly.
This happens with YouTube Music as well and it is incredibly annoying. So weird how this same kind of thing would happen with multiple services.
For me it's been mostly Aesop Rock and Big KRIT albums that frequently change from Explicit -> Censored versions, but it's happened with other artists as well.
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#169For folks on Windows/Linux that want to use Apple Music but not the web player, try Cider ( https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider ). Yes, it is Electron but Apple did use webviews in their macOS AM app as well before they switched back to native earlier this year; which still isn't that great. Ironically, Cider works better than the Apple's web app as well; it doesn't skip or get stuck once in a while. It just works for…
I'll second this; I've been trialing Apple Music side by side with Spotify for the last few months, and Cider has been very usable on both Linux and Windows.
If only the Android app weren't such a mess...
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> In the 90s I was buying CDs with five good songs and five filler for £15. That is unfortunate. In the early 2000s, I was cleaning up buying used CDs for $1 on Half.com and Amazon. The whole thing about "1 good song on a 10-song album" is a remnant of Steve Jobs' iPod marketing pitch designed to get people buying songs piecemeal for 99c on iTunes. Regular people buy music if they want to support the artist. Trying t…
> The whole thing about "1 good song on a 10-song album" is a remnant of Steve Jobs' iPod marketing pitch Yup. I remember people used claim "piracy would ruin the quality of music" - but the truth is, it's these streaming services that are killing the art of the album.
True, but don’t forget that much of the mid-20th century was “single” focused, and the concept of a full cohesive LP only came about in the mid-60’s (there are earlier examples for but think Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, or The Beatles). Meanwhile, most people still consume top-40 style hits from the radio, etc. for decades after.