If you’re listening from your iPhone via anything other than a wired connection, you aren’t listening to HiRes audio. Apple does not license the couple of Bluetooth codecs which (only minimally) qualify as HiRes. If you want to listen to HiRes, you need a wired connection to a HiRes DAC and (preferably balanced) certified HiRes headphones or speakers. HiRes equipment has an expanded audio spectrum that extends above and below typical headphone/speaker ranges.
Apple Music doesnt even support cross fade. Apple music is way worse in almost all aspects.
The idea last years has been take free content, ie Podcasts, and try to have customers playing that instead of music by heavily promoting podcasts in their app.
Doubt they care. If anything it continues making me consider switching to Apple Music. When Spotify stops including free Hulu I’m probably gone despite the fact that they have perfected my algorithm.
Not many options for Hi-Res certified Wi-Fi speakers that actually have the expanded audio range. You can feed wired speakers through a Wi-Fi receiver, but at that point there is a lot of better options to feed them Hi-Res audio rather than your iPhone.
For sure
I've tried most of the options for whole home audio - from Alexa Studio/Sub setups (not bad), to the Google speakers (awful), to Sonos (pretty good but not easily managed for frequently changing zones), original HomePods (poor), and now the updated HomePod/HomePod mini combo (really good). Until now, I would have said that the Sonos were best, but honestly with the latest updates to the hardware and software, Apple has gotten it right (if you use Apple products). Starting music, podcasts, whatever on a phone and handing off finally works consistently as expected, and selecting the HomePods you want to add to the current "playing" selection is intuitive. Adjusting different levels for each is easy as well.
Except 21% of the market that owns a smart speaker (in the US).
If only that were true. It may feel that way if you're heavily into hiphop, rap and today's teen crap. That's all it suggested for me regardless of what I wanted to play. Pop, rock, heavy metal, kizomba, whatever I tried I was one or two songs away from mainstream rap or Justin Bieber. Thanks, but no thanks.
I care more about the quality than quantity. Apple Music is full of rap, hiphop and teen crap. I couldn't care less of any of them. It's missing plenty of songs I had in my Spotify playlists. What's worst, it keeps playing hiphop, rap and other crap constantly to me no matter what I ask it to play. I hate that. If I want to listen to Bruce Springsteen I want to listen to Bruce - or something else that's similar. Not f***** Drake.
Apple Music is full of more music than Spotify. Period. Spotify has all that same rap. And quality… is better on Apple Music. And since you used Spotify, it learned your likes and recommended whatever junk you listen to that’s related to the Boss. That’s how they all work. First recommendations are top 40, popular present music. Not someone that was popular 40 years ago. Like how would any new service know you like oldies out of the box? Osmosis?
Yeah. You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried.
