I disagree. Spotify keeps putting ads everywhere and sends you emails to use premium. And they add music for you on the mobile app, which is why I rarely listen to music on the go compared to before.
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Spotify Pauses Plans to Add AirPlay 2 Support to iOS App [Update: Spotify Clarifies]
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and Apple Music is more closed off. I can cast Spotify to my Chromecast devices where Apple Music on iPhone will not. Ironically it will on an android phone though.
Maybe I’m an outlier but I have an extensive network of google assistant speakers and Spotify gives me full home audio and Apple Music does not.
Maybe Apple tacked on lawyer costs to this year's license fee.That's odd, it doesn't seem that hard:
Supporting AirPlay in your app | Apple Developer Documentation
Set up your app to use AirPlay to send content wirelessly.developer.apple.com
It could be a licensing issue that they don't want to talk about.
Maybe because Apple Music is terrible, the app interface isn’t as nice as Spotify. The amount of songs that ‘aren’t available in your region’ is laughable, when they’re available in Spotify. Apple Music is far from superior to Spotify
What’s the use case for this anyway?
If I’m playing something on my phone then I don’t need AirPlay because I’m using my earphones.
If I’m playing something multi-room my Sonos connects to Spotify (or any other service) directly without tying up my phone.
If I’m playing something on my phone then I don’t need AirPlay because I’m using my earphones.
If I’m playing something multi-room my Sonos connects to Spotify (or any other service) directly without tying up my phone.
There aren't enough dumpster fire gifs on the internet to convey how garbage spotify is.
as someone who listens to tons of obscure metal and electronic music I've never had an issue finding anything I wanted to hear... plus I have my whole iTunes library in the cloud from decades past so I have access to local and rare stuff as well
I'm wondering if they're still going to once they introduce their "hifi" tier.
Spotify not having CD quality is the main reason I won't use it now.
I don't like Apple Music either because of the way it forces the "cloud library" on you, which I do not want to use.
Qobuz is the best option for me now.
They should at least say that. As of right now, you can start playing music via Spotify, then using the control center Airplay control, stream music to multiple Airplay 2 devices. Claiming it's too difficult when their entire app is built around streaming music, just makes them sound incompetent.That's odd, it doesn't seem that hard:
Supporting AirPlay in your app | Apple Developer Documentation
Set up your app to use AirPlay to send content wirelessly.
It could be a licensing issue that they don't want to talk about.
I’d imagine it depends on what country you live in. In the US, AM has as good as a selection as Spotify as far as I can tell. That probably isn’t the case in other countries.
Personally, I use AM over Spotify (even though their playlist sharing is great) because of iTunes Match. There are songs and artists I simply can’t get on either service but I can buy their music from the artist and upload it to my library. Plus, asking Siri to play X is a feature it’s actually competent at.
This. Also, Apple Music’s desktop app is horrifically slow. Speed is a feature and Spotify wins on that front—especially when it comes to search speed. Going to Apple Music from Spotify is like driving around one of those Fischer-Price toy cars with your feet after cruising in a Corvette.
I prefer Spotify because its better than Apple Music.
I did the 3 month trial of Apple Music, i went back to Spotify after that trial ended.
Because Apple won’t implement continuity/handoff/Spotify Connect for Apple Music and I regularly have a much slower and buggier experience on Apple Music than Spotify.
Apple Music has better recommendations, curated playlists, and plays better in the iOS ecosystem, but it’s so frustrating for me to use that I can’t stand to keep paying for it.
Spotify premium comes with my banking while apple would be a £10/month subscription. I use airplay 2 amd don’t quite understand the difference between ‘native app’ support vs what I have now - guessing native iOS support?
The recommendations are infinitely better than Apple Music, especially if you don't listen to a lot of popular music.
Spotify is good, but Apple Music has its advantages too, like lossless, Dolby Atmos and integration with HomePod.
AM also pays the artists more money, despite actually being cheaper than Spotify if you pay annually.
I don’t find much difference in the size of the catalogues to be honest.
Not as annoying as you think. I've used this service to transfer TXT file playlists from a defunct streaming service, and also from an old spotify account into Apple Music. It worked just fine.
Transfer Playlists Between Music Services | Tune My Music
Transfer Playlists From Any Music Platform to Any Other Music Platform! Including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, Google Play Music, TIDAL and more!
Spotify's curation and playlists are better than Apple Music's, but between the lacking free Hi-Fi, lagging adoption of full functioning apps to Apple's platforms (watch, TV, etc.), or little things like this, Apple Music really does have a leg up in certain areas. iOS 15 will make Apple Music a stronger offering too.
And then complain that it's all Apple's fault for "locking them out" of their ecosystem, even though they haven't.
I've been a Spotify user for many years and love their music discovery algorithms, which is the only reason I'm still with them. But I'd love to switch if I could.
Later in a month or two the real news will come out that this is related to apple and their monopolistic practices again.
Well.. You are using the free tier right? It is very clear that it is ad supported when signing up.. Or atleast it has been. But surely it can’t come as a surprise that a free service pushes ads?
I have both. Primarily because I love using Spotify in my Tesla. I can access Apple Music in the Tesla web browser ... but it's not ideal. It's also true that Spotify has -- in some cases for me -- music not on Apple Music. It's not much, but it's important for me personally. I have no problem using both. I will also say the quality of Apple Music audio at home sounds better (higher fidelity) than Spotify, which sometimes sounds like it's in a tunnel or slightly muffled. I'm no audiophile so I don't know how to better describe it. In my car they sound identical to me though. Spotify definitely wins with curated playlists ... I do like that a lot. All that said, I think they're both really good and probably one will appeal over another for specific reasons.
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