Anecdotally, Apple Music sounds much better than Spotify, but I had to unsubscribe because it didn't work on a flight earlier this year (2022). All music was downloaded in lossless, but I guess some small bit still required network access.
Spotify vs. Apple Music Review – 2022 Edition
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#22Spotify -> Better discovery story, genre classification, and theme/mood/genre automatic playlists. Apple Music -> Better integrated into my iPhone, iPad, etc, etc. Is there really much beyond this? Other than some very niche/indie stuff or contract licensing oddities with an overseas market like mine (Australia) ... I don't see any difference in catalog. Can someone more familiar with the catalog dataset weigh in? I'…
Out of curiosity, how is Apple Music better integrated? Spotify seems just as well integrated, especially now that Siri can treat it like your default music app. (E.g. “Hey Siri, play Novo Amor” starts a song by that artist in Spotify.)
Curious if there are other things I’m missing
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#23Spotify -> Better discovery story, genre classification, and theme/mood/genre automatic playlists. Apple Music -> Better integrated into my iPhone, iPad, etc, etc. Is there really much beyond this? Other than some very niche/indie stuff or contract licensing oddities with an overseas market like mine (Australia) ... I don't see any difference in catalog. Can someone more familiar with the catalog dataset weigh in? I'…
Out of curiosity, how is Apple Music better integrated? Spotify seems just as well integrated, especially now that Siri can treat it like your default music app. (E.g. “Hey Siri, play Novo Amor” starts a song by that artist in Spotify.) Curious if there are other things I’m missing
Having never set Spotify to my default, I have no idea how well it integrates with Siri. Does it get any better integrated with the song identification features if you make it the default?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, how is Apple Music better integrated? Spotify seems just as well integrated, especially now that Siri can treat it like your default music app. (E.g. “Hey Siri, play Novo Amor” starts a song by that artist in Spotify.) Curious if there are other things I’m missing
Having never set Spotify to my default, I have no idea how well it integrates with Siri. Does it get any better integrated with the song identification features if you make it the default?
You have to connect your Spotify account with Shazam in the Shazam app option and disconnect Apple Music for that. Then the integration is on par.
Apple makes it really annoying to avoid their subscription services and use alternative apps. That’s the main point on which they are clearly inferior to Android.
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#25Do Spotify and Apple Music have artist bio's and related bands / albums? Those (and the spotify-style mixes) are my favorite features of Tidal. I had mixed luck with Spotify years ago, and never looked back.
What's Tidal's killer feature?
I've used Spotify, Deezer, currently Youtube Music because bundled with my premium. I don't like it, I'd like to move, but I'm not sure I can tell why Tidal would provide a better service that's worth the hassle of importing all my playlists. They're all a little crap in their own way.
FLAC audio is cool I guess, but honestly that would not be a good enough selling point for me.
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#26> While AAC and OGG codecs are very similar on paper, the way they compress music is very different as AAC uses psychoacoustics to encode music which retains more audible parts of the track.
It’s about this point in the article where I lost trust in the author. A ‘psychoacoustic model’ was used for MP3, a codec built in 91. Exploiting human perceptual traits for better compression isn’t novel to AAC, though admittedly it’s slightly better in very low bandwidth applications vs OGG. Can’t say any audiophile would stream below 128k though
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#27At least where I live Apple Music has a much better catalog for what I like. Nobody else has the same amount of Japanese music without going through the hassle of using a VPN/Japanese account. It also applies to buying too which is frustrating as iTunes doesn't work well under WINE and Apple STILL doesn't have a web interface to buy/download from for some reason.
I don't even want to give Apple money but it's either that or pay like $40 for an imported CD...
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#28I’m winding down my reliance on subscription based services. There’s been a noticeable shift in the world when it comes to ownership; specifically the media and housing market space. Perpetual renting seems to be the way of the future. While I have my own opinions on that, I think it’s important to (at the very least) own your media library. Not only does it benefit artists and studios more, you will not be subject t…
I don't get how this enables music discovery, which is one of the biggest draws of Spotify
Re: Spotify vs. Apple Music Review – 2022 Edition
#29I’m winding down my reliance on subscription based services. There’s been a noticeable shift in the world when it comes to ownership; specifically the media and housing market space. Perpetual renting seems to be the way of the future. While I have my own opinions on that, I think it’s important to (at the very least) own your media library. Not only does it benefit artists and studios more, you will not be subject t…
I don't get how this enables music discovery, which is one of the biggest draws of Spotify
I don't see where GP claimed that it does.
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#30> The desktop app for Apple Music has been updated with the newer versions of Mac OS and performs well It abbbsolutely does not. Sorry, but I've been seriously considering switching to Spotify just because the desktop Apple Music app (on macOS) might be the worst Mac app I've ever used- certainly the worst piece of Apple software I've ever used. It is shockingly, shamefully bad for what's supposed to be a flagship se…
> Sorry, but I've been seriously considering switching to Spotify just because the desktop Apple Music app (on macOS) might be the worst Mac app I've ever used
Agreed, though I suspect the grass is not much greener on the other side.
iTunes became worse and worse over time, but the worst of iTunes was 100 times better than Apple Music on Mac. A total embarrassment and work of utter incompetence. I'd take iTunes back any day.