Well I'm staying I liked Spotify but am just lazy I gotten used to the UI and that's pretty much sums it's up.
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Eddy Cue Talks Apple Music Subscriptions as Initial Three-Month Free Trials End
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That feature is turned of by default but us easily enabled.
I asked Siri if she could help me pay and she said sure after my raise comes in from mr cook.
It's fugly, for starters. (iTunes desktop) Things are very hard to find most of the time. Sometimes when you do find stuff, you still can't play it, even though it appears to be in their library. (Do a search in AM for "Joe Jackson Heaven And Hell". Then try to click on the result offered.) Then there's the tiny text, columns you can't resize and loads of whitespace you can't do anything about.
I am surprised there seems to be no decent alternative to Mac iTunes. I looked around and the only that wasn't gross was Tomahawk, but Tomahawk is even stupider than the iCloud sync – it takes an album title and tries to guess what is on it, instead of displaying what ACTUALLY is on it. 1-track singles turn into 18-track albums without the actual song present. At least it doesn't butcher my library, but that's hardly a reason for me to use it.
As for decent alternatives to Apple Music itself, I am very happy I haven't cancelled my €4.99 subscription to Spotify because they removed the option and now you have to pay €9.99. But existing users continue paying €4.99 (at least until Spotify removes the option from us as well). In any case, Spotify beats AM in every aspect except for the fact I can't set up Spotify on my phone to play both streamed and local tracks, and having two separate players is a bit silly. AM would win here if not for the fact it destroys libraries and refuses to sync tracks for many, many people. (And that the Android app never materialised.)
You're correct. Although in fairness, people should be constructive and not negative or whiny about the whole thing. Seriously, you have to admit, most of the comments are just people being negative. Most people outside of internet forums have no problem with Apple Music.
Man oh man. If Apple cracks the nut on global roaming I'll use whatever service they offer. In a heartbeat. TMo has a pretty good offer (free slow 2G in tons of countries with reasonable prices for faster for-pay buckets of data while abroad) but the coverage by me is unacceptable.
Wanted so badly to love Apple Music. But it shredded my iTunes library that I spent years curating, especially hard to find songs like Disneyland ride soundtracks, etc. Album art, even songs on albums got combined, different versions incorrectly used, etc. Luckily I had a backup, and I never quit Spotify during the AM trial. About a month ago I made sure that AM doesn't auto-renew.
I'd love nothing more than to use Apple Music. But it needs to leave *my* music alone, both tracks and album covers. If it were a separate app, I'd have cancelled Spotify and kept it. I did love the curated playlists and music discovery.
The other irksome issue is when you downloaded an album, you couldn't tell that the individual songs were downloaded. Bad UI, bad UX.
I'd love nothing more than to use Apple Music. But it needs to leave *my* music alone, both tracks and album covers. If it were a separate app, I'd have cancelled Spotify and kept it. I did love the curated playlists and music discovery.
The other irksome issue is when you downloaded an album, you couldn't tell that the individual songs were downloaded. Bad UI, bad UX.
Spotify is just so much better in my opinion so I won't be continuing after my trial ends, but Apple's got something decent started. I'll give it another look in a couple of years. They really need to work on the UI, add more radio variety, and separate it a little more from iTunes store purchases.
The another problem with Apple Music is the streaming quality on normal mode... highly compressed. I think if they enabled more options would be good. I did not try the higher quality, which I assume would be 224kbps. Prefer to be on the sweetspot of 160kbps, just like Spotify's High setting.
im staying with my 26 gig of local music. never understood the streaming craze
That Eddie Cueless has been murder for Apple services. He has been at the helm of that long enough. If it is not him, somebody else deserves feet to the fire.
I am an objective Apple fan, but when I see something that doesn't work or is of no interest or if there are better solutions they cannot get my $$.
Ping, iDisk, Mac.com, MobileMe, iCloud, Apple Music
were and are all iDuds
No idea why they cannot see it!
I've been using mine daily on AT&T LTE without ever having a problem.
Still not sure if I'm going to renew yet(I still have a month left on my trial). Love the service, hate the app.
Looks like the consensus here for the moment is to not use it and save $ 10.
Spotify is FREE and has more diversified music than Apple.
The CEO and immediate underlings have a scripted answer for everything, not only in the Apple corporation, but in every corporation. They go to schools to learn the canned answers. I have known several CEO as a photographer, and whenever I was ever around one the answers they would give different people at different events were always word for word almost. They do this or are not at the top.
And yet Apple specifically responded to the MVNO rumors saying they had no plans to enter that space. Apple doesn't typically comment on rumors. Why would Apple want to get into that business (and all headaches that come with it) when they've effectively turned the carriers into dumb pipes?
Indeed. A lot of complaining over a service that didn't cost them a dime for three months.
iCloud doesn't work for you? I would be lying if I said it worked for me all the time but for the most part it's an integral part of my computing experience between syncing data like contacts, calendar, reminders/notes, backups, Safari Reading List, Safari bookmarks, Safari cloud tabs and Photos. When it doesn't work, sure it's a problem but it works quite well almost all of the time.
At what exactly? Searching? Playlists? This isn't like Google Maps where they had a 6 year head start on Apple Maps. The Apple Music v. Spotify debate is purely subjective since both services have essentially the same catalog.
Apple Music is still in it's infancy, so there was no way I was going to start paying for their service when I feel Spotify is vastly superior. As soon as I downloaded iOS 8.4 on 6/30, I immediately turned off auto renew for Apple Music. Maybe in a year or so, I'll reevaluate the service. But for now, I'm sticking with Spotify.
With that said, I'm curious to see the number of subscribers Apple reports they have for the streaming service since the free trial ended for most of us yesterday.
With that said, I'm curious to see the number of subscribers Apple reports they have for the streaming service since the free trial ended for most of us yesterday.
Free with commercials and limited skips, this is the big difference. Nothing pulls you out of a listening experience then Enterprise commercials in the middle of a playlist. How is the catalog more diversified? They are similar catalogs ranging 30 million tracks with exclusives on both sides.
I cancelled long ago. It took most of my music with it (the music I ripped from CDs or downloaded) so I ended up loosing a good chunk of my music. When that happened I cancelled the auto-renu and turned Apple Music off.
