Unless you are into hip hop Apple music is useless. Spotify suggestions, search, user-created playlists, is miles ahead of Apple music. Apple playlists get updated at most a few times a year and are generic AF. Like many other people hear I dont know one person who uses Apple music its all spotify. Spotify is just better.
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Apple Music Reportedly Surpasses Spotify Subscriber Count in the U.S.
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Wando64
macrumors 68030
Apart from points 7 and 9 (both completely irrelevant for me) you are just talking nonsense, Sir.
In any case, enjoy the tool you like best, whilst trying a bit harder not to find inane reasons as to why a lot of people worldwide shouldn’t prefer a different tool.
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Most people that complain about Spotify audio quality have no idea that once you become a paying subscriber you can change the quality to CD equivalent level. (You actually have to go into the settings to do this)
I assume you knew this and still believe that the quality is not good enough... how much I would love to do a blind test to prove you right.
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Capeto
macrumors 6502a
Jeez, some of you people need to lay off the Apple kool-aid, and this is coming from someone deeply vested in the Apple ecosystem.
How is using Spotify or WhatsApp piracy?
iTunes Match or whatever it was called did a number with a few of my live albums when I tried Apple Music, it definitely wasn’t a “paid hit”. Not every criticism of Apple’s services are paid opposition.
How is using Spotify or WhatsApp piracy?
iTunes Match or whatever it was called did a number with a few of my live albums when I tried Apple Music, it definitely wasn’t a “paid hit”. Not every criticism of Apple’s services are paid opposition.
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Tapiture
macrumors 65816
Apple blocked a Spotify update because they claimed that by requiring people buy subscriptions through the Spotify website and not giving Apple 30% that they were violating App Store TOCs. How that doesn’t violate Microsoft Corp. v U.S. Government, I don’t know.
Whether or not Google does it does not concern me. It can be true for both. However, Google pre-loading YouTube on their devices is in no way equivalent.
Too soon, brother. I'm still hurting over the demise of Zune. I had the original 30GB, it broke and went to the iPod Nano (the ol' fat one). I realized quickly that the Zune 80 was best and went with that. I loved that software and hardware. It had so many great features and really was the only competition to the iPod. It had such a community vibe to it..."welcome to the social". It was ahead of its time and Microsoft failed to market it well. I still have my 80GB, although it's in pieces because it needs a new battery. I really should get on that.
Wando64
macrumors 68030
Care to substantiate, or do you just enjoy making sweeping accusations without any shred of evidence?
I switched to Spotify as Apple don't support Siri on Sonos. I think they will lose a lot of customers for the same reason.
tkermit
macrumors 68040
It is so easy to find CD's for cheap. Rip the in lossless, or high quality and use iTunes Match. Streaming is not the end all - be all of music people.
Greenmeenie
macrumors 68020
I love Apple. Been an Apple fan since before it was “cool”. Before the iphone, ipad, imac & ipod. Back in the 90s when there were no Apple Stores, just small sections in the back of stores like the now bancrupt Comp USA. When store clerks used to laugh when you asked where the Mac section was. Anyway...i love Apple. However...i hate their music service. I like Spotify & Pandora much better. I use Spotify when i want to listen to a specific artist or song, and Pandora when i want to just randomly listen to a genre of music. Sorry Apple. This is one area where you need major improvement.
They're phenomenal. You couldn't get away with Ads like that back then, but with some revision the general concept could work today.
jonnyb098
macrumors 601
Oh......here come all the “because I don’t see it means it doesn’t exist” arguments. I can counter that with more people I know use Apple Music. It’s a silly argument.
The iPad interface on Spotify does not support split screen so that alone makes it garbage. Also no Siri support.
dogslobber
macrumors 601
Steve said people want to own their own music, not rent it. I agree with Steve.
decafjava
macrumors 603
Well, I am not sure how sustainable Spotify's model is in the long run - plus I think Apple pays musicians more so that is a plus at least.
Steve said that years ago. The times have changed and for the most part people don't give a crap about ownership of anything. Convenience always beats out quality.
The problem now (and this is partly due to the iTunes digital store and it's former popularity) is that music has lost a lot of it's value. Not that people don't enjoy music, but rather the relationship between the listeners and their music has been degraded. People used to buy whole albums and listen to it as a whole. Beginning to end. You couldn't skip a track on vinyl. CD's enabled you to skip to your favorite tracks, and then with iTunes you could now just buy the tracks you wanted. When looking through someones library you do not see an artists discography, but just their hits. Spotify took this and ran with it, making the hits into playlists. It's the new album. The playlist though does not have songs that tie into each other, there is no story or theme being presented, so most of the songs are just fluff. When the fluff song becomes old, people move on. It devalues music.
When music is devalued, there is no reason to own. Just stream. If you are like me and find music that still tells a story, or presents a theme, you will buy the music.
decafjava
macrumors 603
Well, we can still do that and I still buy music. I hope that never changes.
I am the same way. I have tried Apple Music twice. I keep going back to Spotify. It's just superior. I really want to like Apple Music but a lot of songs are missing and the playlists are terrible.
jonnyb098
macrumors 601
You can’t make a profit when most of your users are using the FREE TIER. That means Spotify is paying out royalties to artists and trying to make it up with ads. Apple Music actually pays artists more per stream too which give Apple an advantage.
FREE has never been a sustainable business model. Spotify knows this so all you happy users can expect price increases and lots of other money making schemes from them as they go public. They have loads of users that pay nothing so they’ll have to find a way to get them to pay. I think they’ll try to do a smart speaker or something.
No thanks albums were 10 bucks a piece, I rather rent music because I rarely listen to same music twice and I can do unlimited for 10 bucks or even 5 bucks if you area student. Glad it gives people an option to buy music but it’s way to expensive to buy a single album
Yes.. open up your 'now playing' card in the Music appl. Tap that little arrow with the circles at the bottom-middle of the screen. Your various Airplay destinations should pop up (iPhone, homepod, apple TV, whatever). Tap on the HomePod bubble, and then your 'now playing' screen is your HomePod! You just scroll down to see what's up next. Hope that makes sense.
Jmausmuc
macrumors 6502a
Something must be wrong with you BMW. There is a dedicated Spotify app for both my old 3 series F30 and my new 5 series. Have you downloaded the app or are you just selecting the iPhone as a usb device?
Skipping tracks from the steering wheel was no problem with both of these cars.