Apple Testing Song Lyrics for Apple Music Web Player

[Col4bin]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

All my 100’s of existing playlists (many from former iTunes) and not wanting to rebuild everything in Spotify.

 

[B/D]

Why not use an offline player and rip it in ALAC or since I own Android FLAC?

I dont understand. You can do both things, rip your own music in lossless for archival purposes and at the same time use an streaming service. There is no need to stop buying music.


In fact, with Apple Music, your own rips can coexist in the cloud along with the music from their catalogue.

The only caveat is that lossless files, when uploaded to the cloud, get transcoded on the fly to AAC 256 (your locally stored lossless files remains untouched on your computer). Hope this will change soon.

 

[B/D]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

Icloud Music Library. Is THE feature for me. None of the others streaming services have something similar, not like that (yes, Youtube Music allows you to upload files, but it is clunky and not well integrated with their music catalog).

 

[tonyr6]

I dont understand. You can do both things, rip your own music in lossless for archival purposes and at the same time use an streaming service. There is no need to stop buying music.


In fact, with Apple Music, your own rips can coexist in the cloud along with the music from their catalogue.

The only caveat is that lossless files, when uploaded to the cloud, get transcoded on the fly to AAC 256 (your locally stored lossless files remains untouched on your computer). Hope this will change soon.

I still buy music on CDs sometimes. I bought two albums that were pulled off Apple Music. Now those albums are back on Apple Music but when I listen to them, I use my offline music player in FLAC.

 

[diego]

Mostly copying Spotify? Btw, why would anyone use apple music vs Spotify?

Because it includes my iTunes music library that I've accumulated since 2002?

 

[Kulfon]

Fair enough. Most answers related to convenience. I started with Spotify and know interface, know my way around. Tried Apple Music, lost with the interface I assume that it is just a matter what was the first service we used and then it is no reason to change. I think Apple music has less songs, at least for the type of music I like

 

[boswald]

Fair enough. Most answers related to convenience. I started with Spotify and know interface, know my way around. Tried Apple Music, lost with the interface I assume that it is just a matter what was the first service we used and then it is no reason to change. I think Apple music has less songs, at least for the type of music I like

To answer your question, I prefer it because it blends in with everything else, works well with my HomePods, and goes from device to device without any issues. Yeah, I also was born into AM first so there's that familiarity. I will, however, admit that Spotify does have better playlists sometimes.

 

[ackmondual]

Apple and testing don’t go together nowadays

Well, that leads to the saying "at Apple, you're the tester"

 

[mxrider88]

Well, that leads to the saying "at Apple, you're the tester"

If they listened to suggestions or read bug reports at least...