At present I don’t know what’s worse AppleMusic or Siri, I presume AI/ML is unable to help out in the Music app.
I am unable to add music to the app, I need a computer to accomplish this smh.
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Spotify Still Doesn't Offer AirPlay 2 Nearly Six Months After Last Promising to Support the Feature
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I am unable to add music to the app, I need a computer to accomplish this smh.
I ❤️ Music. This morning I discovered this on Apple Music Hits, for you ABBA lovers:
https://music.apple.com/au/station/nile-rodgers/ra.1605850994 .
If you're a Huey Lewis fan like myself and in the 80's listened to, 'Huey Lewis And The News', 'Sports' cassette tape in the car, try, ' '80's Radio With Huey Lewis' which is at The Heart Of Rock & Roll. Jane Wiedlan from, 'The Go-Go's' is his guest in episode eight.
https://music.apple.com/au/station/nile-rodgers/ra.1605850994 .
If you're a Huey Lewis fan like myself and in the 80's listened to, 'Huey Lewis And The News', 'Sports' cassette tape in the car, try, ' '80's Radio With Huey Lewis' which is at The Heart Of Rock & Roll. Jane Wiedlan from, 'The Go-Go's' is his guest in episode eight.
The hate here against Spotify is crazy...it is faster , more reliable , bug free compared to Apple Music.
I'm pretty sur most speaker that do airplay also do Spotify Connect , wich is also much better.
Apple Music is far behind Spotify in term of users , despite the fact it is installed on every iOS device , that says a lot about how bad it is (and I've used it for years , "because it is apple" until I really tried Spotify)
I'm pretty sur most speaker that do airplay also do Spotify Connect , wich is also much better.
Apple Music is far behind Spotify in term of users , despite the fact it is installed on every iOS device , that says a lot about how bad it is (and I've used it for years , "because it is apple" until I really tried Spotify)
For me there‘s a delay when skipping songs (Airplay from my iPhone to my Homepod) that’s about half a second. I don’t have this problem with Apple Music…
This is one of the reasons why I switched to Apple Music. I was a Spotify user for many years. Last year when Apple introduced high-res lossless and Dolby Atmos for the same price switching was really a no-brainer. It sounds great on the OG HomePods. Also love the “play similar music” algorithm. Zero regrets.
Atmos music sound terrible, muffled and distant on my OG Homepods. Go figure.
Your HomePods may be broken. Or maybe it’s just a case of hear impairment. Who knows right?
Maybe I just dont like Atmos mixes, I dont know. I currently have Atmos off and lossless on.
As an owner of both, I think Spotify is way better. Finding music, finding playlists, musical diversity, podcast and suggestions are all better on Spotify.
Apple Music has lossless. But the app is just so much slower, more cumbersome and way less function in my experience.
But Spotify need to get off their backsides and upgrade to lossless and airplay 2.
Generally speaking Spotify works well with both sets of homepods at my home. Sound from one of the stereo paired homepod/homepod mini often cuts out but, to be honest, this also happens with Apple Music, equally often.
And they would be terribly wrong to see it that way. If their developers can't be bothered to lift a finger in regards to supporting major revisions by Apple, they will eventually get caught with their pants down when things start breaking.
No, it's just the way some of the songs are mixed.
Listen to "How Dare You Want More" by Bleachers on your HomePod with Atmos off and then with it turned on. It's so hollow and tinny. Not as bad when listening with headphones, but damn...on HomePod it sounds terrible.
That Airplay as it is currently implemented works perfectly well for almost everyone.
Streaming to multiple speakers at the same time might be a problem, but then hardware that is able to to receive this and play it in a non-stupid-manner - like Sonos - only need one stream anyway, and can play it that way.
Spotify's app and music discovery is lightyears ahead of Apple Music. That said, I wish I could remove all traces of podcasts in the app and get lossless audio. I don't recall any other new features I've really missed from Spotify other than lossless/atmos - it's more of "don't add more things to the app, keep it lean and mean unlike the monstrosity that is Apple Music". FWIW, I've got both - and I'm using Spotify for pretty much everything other than if I want to really listen to - and focus on - the music on my main system, where I use either Apple Music or my local music library.
I guess they, at the time, thought HomePod was going to be a major product line - rather than the fiasco it ended up as. If HomePod ended up everywhere, like the iPhone, having Apple Music as the only choice would be rather anticompetitive. Instead of that scenario happening, HomePod was a dud.
It does, via Airplay.
Granted, I think Spotify connect is superior - it doesn't get interrupted by me leaving the house to buy groceries, looking at web pages with maybe a quick video etc - but Apple Music does support Airplay, which is full resolution (well, up to CD quality).
Doesn't all of that, with the exception of the Apple gear, also support Spotify Connect - which is a better solution than Airplay for this specific use case? (playing music from a music app)
Apple music doesnt do that either, at least not with the homepods. You can remote control the speakers from IOS or Mac OS, without using Airplay. It works like Spotify Connect and Chromecast.
As an orchestral, jazz, blues, and film music lover who only listen to full albums and never to playlists, Apple Music is much better in terms of discovery, curation, and management of a digital library.
For starters, I can upload music to the cloud (ideal to fill missing gaps on their streaming catalogue), and can also edit the metadata of their content, which is not possible with Spotify.
The explore tab of the music app has a "genres" section that I find tremendously useful. I found that the recommendations inside each genre tab varies depending on what have you like or disliked and what you have on your music library. Very clever. I use this often to find new classical music recordings, for example, or new releases of film music.
The ability to fully edit the metadata of the AM content that I add to my library, in particular, is unmatched by any other platform. The metadata of many albums its often wrong across all the streaming services, and AM allows me to correct that.
Having said that, AM is quite atrocious in terms of bugs and performance, particularly on desktop.
Spotify is SO much better at this. Lightweight, blazing fast, ultra responsive. Its a joy to use.
Mac OS 12.2, which is due to be released this week, will bring a fully native, completely rewritten Music app. Lets hope it will improve things in that regard.
For Windows and older Mac Os version, we have Cider (currently in alpha, but still much better than Itunes and the current Music app).
For starters, I can upload music to the cloud (ideal to fill missing gaps on their streaming catalogue), and can also edit the metadata of their content, which is not possible with Spotify.
The explore tab of the music app has a "genres" section that I find tremendously useful. I found that the recommendations inside each genre tab varies depending on what have you like or disliked and what you have on your music library. Very clever. I use this often to find new classical music recordings, for example, or new releases of film music.
The ability to fully edit the metadata of the AM content that I add to my library, in particular, is unmatched by any other platform. The metadata of many albums its often wrong across all the streaming services, and AM allows me to correct that.
Having said that, AM is quite atrocious in terms of bugs and performance, particularly on desktop.
Spotify is SO much better at this. Lightweight, blazing fast, ultra responsive. Its a joy to use.
Mac OS 12.2, which is due to be released this week, will bring a fully native, completely rewritten Music app. Lets hope it will improve things in that regard.
For Windows and older Mac Os version, we have Cider (currently in alpha, but still much better than Itunes and the current Music app).
Go into the control center, go to the airplay platter, and tap on the thing that says “Control other speakers and TVs.”
I think you’ll find that this solves your problem, it basically turns your phone into a control over what’s being played on the speakers, while not actually AirPlaying to them.
So it won’t stop playing if you leave the house or anything like that.
I feel the same, AM just doesn’t have as big a catalog either compared to Spotify.
they always fail to move with the times and never update there product to take advantage of modern tech, they took 5 years to reach the Apple Watch and I’m still waiting for HomePod mini support.
if AM gets the same features and more music then I’ll move in a heartbeat.
