What is so bad about it? Works pretty intuitive for me. The only thing they messed up is audio books. This is indeed a huge mess.
Imagine having to announce this now with a price attached to it. Awkward!
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What is so bad about it? Works pretty intuitive for me. The only thing they messed up is audio books. This is indeed a huge mess.
Imagine having to announce this now with a price attached to it. Awkward!
sorry to burst your bubble but Spotify announced months ago that Hi Fi was coming this year.
Spotify is about to sound even better
Amazon Music, Deezer, and Tidal also offer lossless streaming options
www.independent.co.uk
Spotify HiFi tier (finally) launching to offer CD-quality streaming
Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to upgrade to the CD-quality Spotify HiFi tier "beginning later this year"...
Spotify announce their new CD-quality, lossless audio tier - Spotify HiFi - RouteNote Blog
Announced at Spotify's Stream On event, Spotify HiFi is the new high definition audio tier delivered by the Swedish music streaming giant.
routenote.com
Spotify reveals HiFi tier, 80-country expansion, new exclusive podcasts
The company shared details Monday at its first big news event in nearly three years.
www.cnet.com
how long have we known about Apple lossless? according to this very website the earliest report was 17 days ago:
Rumor: Apple to Announce Third-Generation AirPods and HiFi Apple Music Tier in 'Coming Weeks'
Citing sources within the music industry, Hits Double Daily reports that Apple is preparing to launch a new HiFi Apple Music tier in the "coming...
www.macrumors.com
so they aren't copying Apple's every move. In fact in this case Apple is the one who should be doing the copying. Apple Music is inferior to Spotify (i'm using Apple Music on my iPhone so not just hating).
you mean the apps that are on ios, android, mac os, windows, linux, playstation, xbox, and even some TVs (LG for example)?????
meanwhile, i'm waiting for Apple to put out a dedicated Apple Music app for Windows so i can stop using the web player which is a buggy mess lol. "jUsT uSe ItUneS!!" ... no. it's old and archaic. it's so outdated and was designed for the iPod era.
i've used Spotify for 12 years (currently using Apple Music) and let me tell you the apps are fine and Apple has a lot of work to do before they can catch up with Spotify.
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For me, it’s the UI and speed of the Spotify. I found the Apple Music app pretty slow on mobile, and EXTREMELY slow and buggy on the Mac. Also, simple things like queuing music are overly complicated in Apple Music, whereas in Spotify, you just slide right on the track. There’s also no comparable feature to Spotify Connect for Apple Music, who is supposed to be king of handoff and continuity. I also get free Hulu under the student plan or Spotify. Additionally, my friends use Spotify and if we send each other music, it’s always using Spotify links.
Lossless Apple Music does tempt me given that I have a low- to mid-end audiophile headphone setup at home Apple is providing multiple quality options, free of charge, and that they’re likely doing it properly by working with record labels to get the highest quality versions. However, I don’t know if I’ll be able to justify switching over when just simply using the Apple Music interface is slow, buggy, and not logical for me.
With all these companies adding hi-fi, is the only way to listen to them in full quality through wired headphones and a DAC? Would services like spotify connect on an amp potentially support it? Is Apple's hi-fi capable of being played through hdmi to powered speakers on an apple tv? I'm so confused with all of the efforts made to ditch headphone cables when services like these seem to require them....
Competitors??? You're kidding, right?
High resolution, lossless music streaming services have been out now for sometime -- including the music catalog behemoth Amazon. If anything, Apple is copying those and the few stragglers who still remain are catching up as well.
Let the war begin. Apple better up its game in general even before we look at lossless, hi fi and all this marketing munbo jumbo.
Okay, show me a great "Now Playing" option. You know the one Apple Music has? That Amazon Music has? That even Tidal has?sorry to burst your bubble but Spotify announced months ago that Hi Fi was coming this year.
Spotify is about to sound even better
Amazon Music, Deezer, and Tidal also offer lossless streaming options
Spotify HiFi tier (finally) launching to offer CD-quality streaming
Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to upgrade to the CD-quality Spotify HiFi tier "beginning later this year"...www.msn.com
Spotify announce their new CD-quality, lossless audio tier - Spotify HiFi - RouteNote Blog
Announced at Spotify's Stream On event, Spotify HiFi is the new high definition audio tier delivered by the Swedish music streaming giant.
Spotify reveals HiFi tier, 80-country expansion, new exclusive podcasts
The company shared details Monday at its first big news event in nearly three years.
how long have we known about Apple lossless? according to this very website the earliest report was 17 days ago:
Rumor: Apple to Announce Third-Generation AirPods and HiFi Apple Music Tier in 'Coming Weeks'
Citing sources within the music industry, Hits Double Daily reports that Apple is preparing to launch a new HiFi Apple Music tier in the "coming...
so they aren't copying Apple's every move. In fact in this case Apple is the one who should be doing the copying. Apple Music is inferior to Spotify (i'm using Apple Music on my iPhone so not just hating).
you mean the apps that are on ios, android, mac os, windows, linux, playstation, xbox, and even some TVs (LG for example)?????
meanwhile, i'm waiting for Apple to put out a dedicated Apple Music app for Windows so i can stop using the web player which is a buggy mess lol. "jUsT uSe ItUneS!!" ... no. it's old and archaic. it's so outdated and was designed for the iPod era.
i've used Spotify for 12 years (currently using Apple Music) and let me tell you the apps are fine and Apple has a lot of work to do before they can catch up with Spotify.
Spotify: great recommendations, great UI, some bugs on iOS, some bugs on Windows 10, works great on web, buggy "up next", OK audio quality, could be better;
Apple Music: weak recommendations, great UI on iOS and Web, awful UI on Windows 10 (iTunes), a few bugs in iOS, awful slow experience on Web, really buggy experience on iTunes, lots of memory leaks etc., great "up next", great audio quality.
I'm subscribed to Apple Music because even though Apple Music is awful on Web and Windows 10, the experience and audio quality is superior on iOS. This could change if Apple updates iTunes so I can stream on my Windows 10 laptop. I currently have local files on it with iTunes not logged in. Once you log in the bugs start.
The music recommendations are so weak that I have to look for new artists to listen on Reddit. Spotify wins here.
For anyone curious, you will still benefit from HiFi on low/medium budget speakers and headphones. It's true that the better the speaker, the more you will notice, but it's a nice upgrade for anybody regardless of what equipment you're using, except maybe super-low-budget speakers found on smartphones, laptops and and TVs.
Very much looking forward to Spotify HiFi. Now if only they could get their Credits right like Tidal, I'd be able to use it for everything.
Very much looking forward to Spotify HiFi. Now if only they could get their Credits right like Tidal, I'd be able to use it for everything.