If someone is happy with spotify, why force them to use apple music, just because safari isn't working. Its far easier to use chrome then sign up to a new streaming service and re-set your preferences and likes
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Spotify Web Player No Longer Compatible With Apple's Safari Browser
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I just cancelled Spotify (again) and giving Apple Music a shot (again). Hope I don't regret it this time but I can't stand the Spotify iOS app. I find the UI clunky.
The Spotify desktop app is pretty nice though. I think Apple Music could potentially use its own stand alone app. I wouldn't mind that. The iCloud music library is nice but iTunes feels pretty bloated these days.
The Spotify desktop app is pretty nice though. I think Apple Music could potentially use its own stand alone app. I wouldn't mind that. The iCloud music library is nice but iTunes feels pretty bloated these days.
This strikes me as a bit odd, given Safari supports (and supported before Chrome) Encrypted Media Extensions, which I understood was the main API to be used for implementing DRM, (its used in Netflix streaming for example).
Further, I'd note that before this you could only use the Spotify web player with Flash, which many people refuse to install, so we're really sort of in a similar place re Spotify Web Player.
The option used to be installing Flash and reducing power efficiency and security, and now the option is installing Chrome and reducing power efficiency (and letting Google follow you around the internet).
Further, I'd note that before this you could only use the Spotify web player with Flash, which many people refuse to install, so we're really sort of in a similar place re Spotify Web Player.
The option used to be installing Flash and reducing power efficiency and security, and now the option is installing Chrome and reducing power efficiency (and letting Google follow you around the internet).
Well, at least in this thread number of Safari supporters (might switch the streaming service) and the other way round tie.
What kept me from using Apple Music was the flexibility of a browser-based experience.
I use Safari on Mac, Edge on Win 10 and avoid Chrome like a data-mining plague.
I use Safari on Mac, Edge on Win 10 and avoid Chrome like a data-mining plague.
I agree but I just don't get the hang up on which service has more songs available. I have no figures to back this but I would assume the vast majority of music fans that stream music, could probably find their music on several alternative providers.
Obviously the bigger music fans would be more picky but for the average Joe, it's just based on, as you say, the experience and the accessibility.
Because it answers your indirect question. There is nothing to wonder.
And so you read the article next time instead of shooting off some ridiculous uninformed comment based on a headline.
Or rather, what privacy controls does Safari have that that Chrome doesn't that makes Spotify less able to serve ads in the way their business model requires?
So Spotify requires a Chrome-specific extension, at least on Mac (Opera is just a reskinned Chrome at this point - and Firefox has moved to Chrome's plugins). Meanwhile, Pandora inexplicably still requires Flash.
Remember when HTML5 was going to save us from browser-specific shenanigans? Sigh... it's beginning to look like no one learned the lessons from the bad old days of Internet Explorer...
Remember when HTML5 was going to save us from browser-specific shenanigans? Sigh... it's beginning to look like no one learned the lessons from the bad old days of Internet Explorer...
I've been using the web player on my Macbook over the app because last year the Spotify app was found to excessively write to the SSDs and ruining the SSDs. They say it was fixed but I'm still concerned.
The Spotify web player demands that Flash be running, so that alone is enough to make me use the native app instead.
If you have a Mac you have an iOS device and the continuity between them means safari is the only real choice for a connected easy life. If you can't play Spotify the instant reaction is oh snap, I'll cancel this then. Most people won't bother looking or the app or might just use their phone app instead. I doubt there are many that would drop safari, most of the less tech savvy Mac users don't even realise there ARE other options to even be downloading in the first place.
So if you are in the Mac/iOS ecosystem:
- you need to install their dodgy app that stresses your SSD or the battery-draining Chrome
- you always get crappy sound and lower battery life over Bluetooth from your iPhone because their bloody Ogg Vorbis codec gets recompressed into SBC (whereas with Apple Music, the AAC stream is not decompressed by your phone but sent straight to your BT headphones - so the sound quality is better due to no double lossy compression).
At this point, they are pushing people towards Apple Music!
- you need to install their dodgy app that stresses your SSD or the battery-draining Chrome
- you always get crappy sound and lower battery life over Bluetooth from your iPhone because their bloody Ogg Vorbis codec gets recompressed into SBC (whereas with Apple Music, the AAC stream is not decompressed by your phone but sent straight to your BT headphones - so the sound quality is better due to no double lossy compression).
At this point, they are pushing people towards Apple Music!
Preferring a browser that has objectively less impact on overall system performance is not the same as "loyalty". Quite the opposite. If I used Chrome despite its issues, that would require loyalty.
You can't stream SiriusXM over Safari any longer either in High Sierra betas but you can still stream it using Firefox and other browsers. I can't get an answer from Apple as to when or if it intends to "fix" this or if it is intentional.
Yep, I've been an iPhone user for the past seven years and I recently switched to a Galaxy S8. Downloaded the Apple Music app and it works perfectly- it's a great experience. Apple Music may not have browser support (which would be nice) but just about everybody has a device that is capable of using the service.
The ability to track you without specific authorization. Isn't Chrome a WebKit browser? The same WebKit that Apple made open source so these problems would stop.
Try scrolling through a long list of tracks or album art. The slickness stops right there.
The Spotify app is a wrapped Chromium browser. Whether you have a third-party browser or this app, you pretty much end up downloading a browser now to listen to Spotify.
Indeed, one proprietary technology followed by another. Spotify simply decided to keep supporting one proprietary plugin only.
I won’t be forced. I will willingly do it. I don’t want many browsers on my computer. And I don’t like companies that play games with compatibility.
That is why Spotify has such terrible battery life on iPhone and Android. I listened to a album and my phone battery drained nearly 10% crazy with the screen off. Apple AAC and Play Music MP3 drained maybe one or two percent. I did complain to Spotify and I got a full refund.
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Where you can't install programs, public place or work place. However Spotify web player only streams at there crappy 160kbps OGG which sounds terrible while other web players max out at there expected bitrate.
