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How to See 'Spotify Wrapped' for Apple Music

alchemistmuffin said:
There’s a big reason why Apple doesn’t have the “wrapped” feature like Spotify: Privacy.

Because what other type of music people listen to is none of their business, unless specifically asked for. Advertisers use those “wrapped” features to serve ads, and that’s bit invasive.
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Read the first line of the Apple Music privacy policy and you will see that Apple can and do collect information about what you listen to and could realistically provide you with a "Wrapped" feature:

Apple collects information about your Apple Music activity, such as the songs you play and how long you play them, to personalize the service when you are subscribed or enrolled in a preview of our services, send you notifications, and compensate our partners.
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They also share aggregated group information with third parties such as record labels and musicians, so they have that data too:

We are obligated to provide some aggregated non-personal information about the use of Apple Music, as well as aggregated user demographics such as age group and gender (which may be inferred from information such as your name and salutation in your Apple ID account), to record labels, publishers, and artists so that they can measure the performance of their creative work and meet royalty and accounting requirements. In addition, we share aggregated listening activity with chart compilers for music charts around the world and with music marketing platforms that help labels and artists reach listeners.
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Legal - Apple Music & Privacy- Apple

Data & Privacy
www.apple.com
 
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Like Bob Marley said "no woman no cry" the analogy here is "no Apple no cry". Avoid Apple products whenever and wherever you can - this saves you from a ton of anger and frustration.

That said, I really like my Apple Watch/iPhone and Laptop - but the same time I hate em as well. Why?

- I cannot connect my Apple Watch HR monitor to my Wahoo bicycle computer, just because Apple doesn't want me to do.
- I have to take care of those Lightning cables that break all the time and I need to buy special adapters for them. Not because Lightning is better but just because Apple wants to make money with Lightning and is in fear of open standards.
- I have to remove my face mask cause Apple refuses to integrate a TouchID solution into the display.
- Apple kicks OpenGL/Vulkan, bans NVidia and CUDA.
- Constant software updates remove or break features and introduce new annoying bugs - EVERY YEAR!!

2006-2012 I could do everything with my Apple MBP. And I did. When Apple finally came up with a 32GB Mbp in 2018, it sold me total crap for $5K.
Yes, I learned the hard way - stay away from Apple wherever you can. Use it when it delights you, but be careful.

Long story short: No Apple Music for me, I haven't even used the 1 year for free. Instead I moved straight to Spotify. It can stream it to my Apple Watch and I can listen to it on my Linux desktop. No worries about a company that tries to lock u in.

Apple should stop their "lock competition out, lock user in" strategy. Furthermore it should win with building the best products.

Thank you Spotify for doing a great job!
 
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Ansath said:
You can use the Apple Music android app on Windows, maybe you missed that…..

Apple Music Android App Can Now Be Used in Windows 11

Apple Music subscribers who use Windows 11 and dislike accessing the service through iTunes or their browser can now run the Apple Music Android app...
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My point still stands, they don't have a Windows app for it. I already said I don't like the UI, and there are too many clicks to get to the things i want.

A Desktop app, just like MacOS would be better.
 
alchemistmuffin said:
No it’s not. It was worst experience for me. Apple Music is so much better, especially with integration in photos app for memories.
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The confidence with which you throw out your « no it’s not » is alarming. For sure, Apple Music seems to work better for you and that’s fine. I’ll tell you that I’ve tried AM 3 times to see if I could make the transition and I’ve found it buggy, slow, the interface to be non intuitive, slow to start songs (and frequently to start them at very low quality even on a super fast wifi connection and with high quality streaming selected), failure to load artist pages. Spotify is just solid and does exactly what I want.
 
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Khalmoon said:
My point still stands, they don't have a Windows app for it.
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On Windows you have an Apple Music app you can access, so your point does not stand….. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Windows or Android app, it behaves & acts the same.

Seems like you’re just being obstinate. I’ll leave you to your rant.
 
Two years in a row, my Apple Music replay has screwed me. Making me feel left out unable to share my music taste on my Instagram story. With last year seriously being the last straw, telling me I did not listen to enough music and had zero generated playlists for me. How sad. ?

It is the primary reason I switched to Spotify. Which is now reporting me in the top 1% of Drake listeners. Suck on that Apple Music.
 
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Confusing - when I go to the replay site I just get bounced straight to the Apple Music website, with no stats/ details visible. What am I missing?
 
orbital~debris said:
Once you’ve signed-in, try visiting the Replay URL again and it should load the specific page with a few stat-based bits. That worked for me, at least.
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Thank you for the suggestion but that doesn't work for me unfortunately. I just get bounced back to the front of the Apple Music website again
 
johnmacward said:
The confidence with which you throw out your « no it’s not » is alarming. For sure, Apple Music seems to work better for you and that’s fine. I’ll tell you that I’ve tried AM 3 times to see if I could make the transition and I’ve found it buggy, slow, the interface to be non intuitive, slow to start songs (and frequently to start them at very low quality even on a super fast wifi connection and with high quality streaming selected), failure to load artist pages. Spotify is just solid and does exactly what I want.
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He didn’t even give me a reason why it’s better when writing that comment to me.
 
binaryfuneral said:
How on earth is it confusing? It’s pretty straight forward. Search the song. Listen to the song. Repeat.
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TBF I did try it when it first launched. It kept trying to mess with my Local iTunes library which I didn’t like. I have video game soundtracks there which I’d prefer not to mess with. I was put off AM then. I went with Spotify and haven’t looked back since.
 
Okay, obviously this thread has gone into trolling and accusatory so I’m going to leave this conversation with one feature Apple Music has the most advantages:

Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos.

And no, this is not gimmick feature. Ever heard of Tidal?

Clearly, taken from Tidal’s playbook, and turned it better.

I have yet to see Spotify perfect lossless audio that matches Apple Music or Tidal.
 
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CarlJ said:
That's a little like saying, "chocolate ice cream is a joke compared to strawberry ice cream". They have completely non-overlapping content - you may like the shows on one better than the other, but that comes down to personal preference.
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It’s more like going for an all-you-can-eat at KFC vs going to a proper buffet place where you can get any food plus chocolate and strawberry ice cream. The problem for me is the lack of content on Apple TV+. Netflix of course has an advantage right now and Apple will catch up eventually, but the price of subscription is not worth it for me yet.
 
MauiPa said:
“‌Apple Music‌ Replay is refreshed on a yearly basis, usually during February”. Hmmmm. On playlist it says “updated weekly”. How is the authors statement even remotely accurate?

Personally, the Spotify thing sounds like worthless crap, kindof like statistics on what you ate all year, who cares? I guess if you are interested, you probably already use Spotify. Too bad they don’t pay the artists fairly. I won’t use Spotify until it does. Coalition for fair payments!
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Spotify has yet to turn a profit. So you can't say they are shortchanging artists - they simply don't take in enough revenue to pay artists more.
And if they raise their prices too much, there will be fewer paid subscribers, dropping revenue further.
Then we will go back to the napster days of illegal downloads - where artists make nothing on these songs.
 
alchemistmuffin said:
There’s a big reason why Apple doesn’t have the “wrapped” feature like Spotify: Privacy.

Because what other type of music people listen to is none of their business, unless specifically asked for. Advertisers use those “wrapped” features to serve ads, and that’s bit invasive.
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Spotify isn't forcing this feature on anyone. It's 100% opt in - i.e. it is "privacy respecting".

Privacy is important, but you can't force fit it to answer every question.
 
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