So have I, and if you cant see the massive growth and development of features they've put out over the years (and continue to do, like HiFi is coming this year) then seems like a lost cause here, so enjoy the other DSPs!
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Spotify Announces Updated 'Your Library' With New Grid Views, Dynamic Filters, Improved Search, and More
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So have I, and if you cant see the massive growth and development of features they've put out over the years (and continue to do, like HiFi is coming this year) then seems like a lost cause here, so enjoy the other DSPs!
Ooh I must be someone special I’ve had this for a while now. I consume a toooonnn of music and am always searching for new so maybe it was rolled out to power users as a test. This makes sense actually as I have wondered why I often have random small differences than some of my friends with where buttons are, etc. on the same platform.
PS Spotify don’t you charge more than a $3 premium. That’s all I’m willing to pay. Besides, the artists want us to hear it lossless anyway. It’s a shame you get “punished” with lower quality as a premium-only feature. Even as near-audiophile with several hifi sound systems and a love for vinyl, I won’t be upgrading if it’s more than $12.99 (it likely will be given the market). I’ve been waiting for years to see what they’ll officially charge since they began beta testing this at different price ranges.
PPS. SCREW YOU SPOTIFY FOR REMOVING TOUCH PREVIEW - one of the greatest music discovery tools of all time. I don’t know if it was due to platform inequality and it not being available on Android, or royalty/contract issues, but I DO NOT believe the lame excuse you gave about it being “not a widely used feature”. It’s been years and I’m still exceptionally salty.
PPS. SCREW YOU SPOTIFY FOR REMOVING TOUCH PREVIEW - one of the greatest music discovery tools of all time. I don’t know if it was due to platform inequality and it not being available on Android, or royalty/contract issues, but I DO NOT believe the lame excuse you gave about it being “not a widely used feature”. It’s been years and I’m still exceptionally salty.
I keep switching back and forth and totally understand this as a reason to prefer spotify over AM. You should be able to filter personal playlists that you make by Artist/date added (both ways) via the phone app and have it sync across all apps. This is something I see as super basic and seriously lacking with Apple. This is #2 on reasons why sometimes I'll go on a month or two of spotify subscribing because I'm sick of dragging each new song I add to my playlists all the way to the top.
If someone has a fix for this please do share.
Same thing with any article mentioning Adobe - everyone feels the need to chime in about how much they hate Adobe and will never pay for a subscription and how much better the alternatives are.
I tried Amazon and I liked the music selection and the higher quality. Both their desktop and mobile apps still need a lot of polishing though.
Spotify (and Plex) allow me to “cast” my music in full quality to my proper hifi setup. Apple Music does not. QED.
I am Apple fan. Watch phone AirPods Mac. CarPlay. Here is the truth-Apple Music is just fine. But after using all the major services (except that JayZ one) Spotify comes out on top. It’s just intuitive and clean and easy to use. Apple can’t get out of its own way. Search feature is putrid and new music recs are atrocious.
Yup, was about to make some snark on their line "Your library"...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I would pay Spotify to have "access" to the music, not necessarily to own it? I haven't tried a paid subscription so I'm only going off the limited free access but curious as to what offline use downloaded files gives me right to do with them?
For music discovery and search, Spotify may take the cake. But until i can upload the thousands of remixes and extended versions I have in my DJ library, none of that matters. At least while I pay apple to rent music they let me listen to all of the music I own alongside it. Dislike my comment all you want but it doesn't change the fact that Spotify is missing a HUGE feature that would make it actually better than Apple Music.
i dont own any music
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I must have been beta tester or something cuz I have had this for weeks now. I like it but I never understood the hate for the UI of Spotify anyway. I think it works great and at least it doesn’t have that ugly pink font on white background. Also can you open AM on one device to control music on another device yet? Last time I tried it just complained that I already plaid music somewhere else. That’s it
Was a longtime Google Play Music user while it lasted, switched to Spotify mainly after news of the transition to YouTube Music came. Works well enough, but after giving Apple Music a fair shake it's far closer to what I was accustomed to with GPM before. The way Spotify and YouTube Music segregate your local library from everything else is just so obtuse in comparison. Sometimes I don't know what I wanna listen to, so I go to my Songs and hit shuffle. Easy!
I want to like Spotify more (that green icon/interface just looks so nice!), but between this and the inability to add podcasts via URL, there's no real reason to stick with it these days.
I want to like Spotify more (that green icon/interface just looks so nice!), but between this and the inability to add podcasts via URL, there's no real reason to stick with it these days.
For me, their algorithm knows me EXCEPTIONALLY well. And I’m not talking about it plays my favorite songs. I’m talking consuming hundreds and hundreds of new songs, artists, and even genres that I’d never heard of before. Their playlist curation, for me, is far superior. I guess everyone has a different experience. I’m usually on my knees for Apple but it’s Spotify over AM for me.
What’s weird is you can type any lyric and the song comes up but they can’t display them. It’s got to be a royalty or contractual disagreement, no?
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I very much like the Apple's philosophy of no advertising and not selling my digital profile and that is what will keep me within the Apple ecosystem ( Music utilised on my Nokia smart phones too). Paying for my media like Music, AMC, Showtime and I know how to circumvent hulu's advertisement tier, have eliminated these annoying distractions. Occasionally I stream my favourite FM stations but as soon as the advertising, news, virus updates or left wing politics commences, I'm back to Apple Music. Domestic free to air television and pay is atrocious and Netflix was better when I subscribed back in 2010, before their presence in Australia. I enjoy Huey Lewis, Luke Bryan, Anna Lunoe shows'. They are talented musicians that discuss music, interview other musicians and expose me to different, new and forgotten retro music. I plug in my noise cancelling AirPods Pro, close my eyes and I'm in their sound booth listening to their interviews or dancing on my work verandah to a track I love or background listening whilst on my PlayStation. I left the world of the, "Go Harvey Norman, Go!" and 'Talk to your Doctor about the many potential nasty side effects before popping our pills.' behind me. With Apple - immersion into a world of music and television without the irritating interruptions unlike some other services. Go, Apple Go!
I think Spotify’s algorithm is better than Apples. At least they know what I may be interested in. Apple just keeps telling me to listen to Drake or TSwift, when I never listen to them.
Too many steps. What if I don't want another playlist cluttering up my others? Not an elegant way of doing something very basic.