Where are you getting that from? Apple Music has a catalog of 90 million songs whereas Spotify claims to have 70 million.
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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 was specifically talking about Airplay vs Spotify Connect here. Playing natively - whether it's Spotify or Apple Music - doesn't have this problem[*].
Spotify Connect is a far superior solution to the problem "play selected music/playlists on a device" (it's just a remote control, basically) - while Airplay is the superior solution for getting general audio (and video) to a playback device, no matter what it is.
[*] I wish that they would not stop playing if I have multiple streams open, though - or rather, if someone listens to it at home and I elsewhere. For both Spotify and Apple Music we have family subscriptions with less than the maximum amount of users, so they could just check if there is an available entitlement I could use.
Nice, I'll give it a try.
Probably not leaving the house, but the most common scenario is that I start playing music - and then just read some twitter (where there are small clips), newspapers, etc, and this ends up interrupting the music on the speakers in the background.
It seems you’re right but the issue I had was that AM search is utter trash and that’s why nothing shows like it does o Spotify.
Either way, still a lot of work to do on Apple Music with just the basic stuff while I appreciate lossless and Dolby atmos.
Thankfully now that Apple Music on macOS is a native app, the search is not nearly as trash as it was before.
Multiroom support is the big one. Either playing the same song to multiple speakers, telling one song to play to a specific speaker (or set of speakers), or having a song follow you on different speakers as you move through the house. I think there are also some improvements to playback control, if I remember (maybe metadata).
Yes, but Apple HAS implemented and documented those APIs, and Spotify hasn’t added support for them. Despite the hoopla Spotify makes about, especially, Apple Music, they don’t seem quick to add support for the very features they ask for. Either they can’t pay the devs (despite their market leader status), or adding that support isn’t a priority for them (despite their complaints about anticompetitiveness). If it’s the latter, then their argument seems disingenuous.
Honestly, Spotify seems to be unable to compete in the crowded streaming market with its current pricing strategies and, instead of changing its pricing regime*, it complains about anticompetitiveness in the hopes of driving competitors out of the market. I sincerely believe that they’re like Twitter, that both of them employed a monetization by acquisition strategy (get enough users, grow on VC capital, sell to a bigger company, cash out). Apple probably snubbed them (Spotify likely asked more than Apple was willing to pay, and Beats had the advantage of aligning with Apple’s long term interests**), so Spotify focuses most of its complaints on Apple. It doesn’t really help matters here that any of Spotify’s would be corporate suitors would have likely required regulatory and antitrust approval (especially in Europe, given the EU’s protectionistic tendencies towards [admittedly rare] European startups making it difficult for American firms to acquire them).
* Maybe by ending some of those bundle deals that ultimately cost them more money in the long run or eliminating the developing world discount that clearly prioritizes market share over profitability.
** The Beats acquisition led to the AirPod lineup, almost assuredly. The AirPods are one of those important strategic initiatives for Apple (they were no doubt working on something AirPod-like pre-Beats, but the Beats acquisition likely hastened the project), and it feels like the first gen AirPods probably should have launched with the Apple Watch (they compliment each other that well). No doubt the Apple Watch project is why Apple developed the AirPods, and the Beats acquisition brought Beats’ engineering team into the Apple fold. Spotify was a poorer fit for Apple since it didn’t have that hardware engineering team.
11 months on (17 months after promising the feature), Spotify still lacks AirPlay support, whereas every other platform offers it.
What a joke. My sub ended 6 months ago because of this. I know they don't care, but I'm curious to know how many others felt the same way as me.
What a joke. My sub ended 6 months ago because of this. I know they don't care, but I'm curious to know how many others felt the same way as me.
They don’t even have a decent miniplayer on mac or win. I caved and went Apple Music a while back.
The reason they don’t care is smart playlists and discovery. They know they hold all the cards in that respect because Apple can’t come up with anything decent. So don’t expect Spotify to do anything until Apple Music comes out with competitive discovery features (which will almost certainly never happen because Apple‘s software teams are a mess these days).
Wouldn’t exclusive or superior features be all the more reason for them to care?
Unless the cost of development outweighs losing monthly subscribers.
You would think that, but they both have basically a monopoly between them. So they stagnate. It’s like a race to see who can sit there the longest.
No I mean they probably calculated that users aren’t going to ditch them for Apple Music just for Airplay at the cost of losing all the discovery stuff. I could be wrong but it seems likely. Same reason they didn’t bother with an Apple Watch app until that guy made a third party one and there was buzz around it.
Not in the least.
Spotify supports Connect (cast), which is excellent and well supported on a huge range of hardware.
Apple Music on the other hand doesn’t, unless bizarrely you use an Android device.
Ah sorry I misunderstood your comment. Thanks for setting me straight on that. It makes sense.
They are too busy working on creepy HealthKit integration. No way I would let them look at my health data just to make exercise playlists.
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Spotify working on HealthKit integration for workout playlists
Spotify currently offers a variety of curated playlists for its users, but it seems that the company wants to take...
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WTF do they need your personal health data for to create workout playlists?!They are too busy working on creepy HealthKit integration. No way I would let them look at my health data just to make exercise playlists.
Spotify working on HealthKit integration for workout playlists
Spotify currently offers a variety of curated playlists for its users, but it seems that the company wants to take...
Remember that health data access is granular - what could be useful for workouts is access to current heartrate.
No. Just...no. They don't need it. Plain and simple. Just freaking creepy.
It's been a year since this was posted and now I can't connect spotify desktop to an apple TV still? The mobile apps works sorta, but desktop only shows Cast devices! Useless. They really are managing to make the platform worse every year somehow. Making me look at switching to Apple Music and migrating my playlists.
yeah, get comfortable, and dont hold your breath.
this is the same company that announced Hi-Fi (see: apple lossless, tidal master) service 2 years ago, and still has not delivered on it. rumor has it that it will cost extra $, while apple lossless *does not*.
spotify is also the company who notoriously either nixes existing features, or never brings them out at all. so in the time you were waiting for the features you mentioned, they both introduced and got rid of Car Thing.
spotify 2 years ago without explanation removed support for djay applications to have access to the spotify API. it was a reason why i used them in the first place.
I've just left for Tidal, purely out of spite towards Spotify. In the 'why are you cancelling' questionnaire I went to town.
I won't subscribe to Apple Music purely because of the amount of times I see particular song 'unavailable' due to licensing or region is ridiculous. Never had the issue with Spotify, not noticed it with Tidal yet either. Plus the AM app is trash. I will always prefer the Spotify (and now tidal) app.
I won't subscribe to Apple Music purely because of the amount of times I see particular song 'unavailable' due to licensing or region is ridiculous. Never had the issue with Spotify, not noticed it with Tidal yet either. Plus the AM app is trash. I will always prefer the Spotify (and now tidal) app.
How do you work around not being able to save some album tracks (without saving the whole album) on spotify & tidal?