I agree about the music quality but I wish AM would at least provide daily mix type lists. Their recommended lists are repeats over and over
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WSJ: Apple Music Has Overtaken Spotify in U.S. Paid Subscribers
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Counting every Verizon customer as an Apple music subscriber certainly helps.
Only if they subscribe after the Free Trial Period.
You can remove Apple Music from the phone and iTunes is not required on your PC. Spotify is a free app on the App store. How is that not fair?
Oh, and iPhone was an iPod before there ever was a Spotify, I do not believe the fact that Apple's music app was upgraded to include a streaming service changes this fact.
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Well I don't know what you're talking about. Obviously the more you use apple music and rate songs the better it gets. I'm not seeing the rap and hip hop others complain about and i'm discovering more music than ever before while spotify started getting stale by repeating so much. I only left spotify and returned to apple music a couple of weeks ago.
I've never been a fan of release radar in spotify nor the mixes which get weird at times with what's in there.
The for you section has been fantastic for me. I'm finding all sorts of new stuff. And again, it gets better the more you rate.
I'm not seeing any lag.
It's easy for me to find what i'm after. But I use it more than you do so that makes sense. I've always found spotify to be a mess when trying to find things. That was always my number one complaint with spotify, just too cluttered. The itunes program itself is a mess and needs an overhaul. In terms of navigation and finding stuff i'm only referring to the phone app.
To me this sounds like you just don't really use apple music, don't rate much, and thus you're finding it's not adapting to your tastes. Which of course makes sense. The more you use it and rate the better it gets.
Not sure why people are willing to pay so much for audio compared to video services. The cost to produce movies/series is an order of magnitude more than producing music.
Apple music's integration with Apple devices just makes it the better choice.
If you put a lot of work into your iTunes library and like creating smart playlist like I've done AM is better. If you like free music with ads and lower sound quality (yuk) free spotify is better. I don't think I know many people with a spotify subscription that aren't getting for free or discounted as a package.
Not sure if Spotify offers a yearly fee but if not technically a yearly AM subscription could be cheaper vs Spotify. 100 vs 120 a year. Even if I changed to an Android phone I'd stick with AM at this point anyway. If they really want to win over customers bring in a lossless file format.
Not sure if Spotify offers a yearly fee but if not technically a yearly AM subscription could be cheaper vs Spotify. 100 vs 120 a year. Even if I changed to an Android phone I'd stick with AM at this point anyway. If they really want to win over customers bring in a lossless file format.
The one metric I've noticed that seems to be a tick in the Spotify column is that anytime anyone wants to share a playlist online, like, "here's my playlist of songs from last night's episode of x" it's *always* a Spotify list. People rarely share Apple Music playlists, which is a shame for folks like me who have only ever been Apple Music subscribers. Well, I was an Rdio subscriber before, but they got eaten, alas.
Now wait’ll these users build up libraries and playlists and realize that they can get a speaker with the best sound in its price category built specifically for Apple Music.
I’m old enough to remember when MacRumors users pointed to the first and second generation Apple Watch and called it a flop and how “nobody wears watches”. I’ll be here in a couple more years when HomePod is in its third year and a must have gadget for the tens of millions of Apple Music subscribers who want better audio than a $30 tin can.
I’m old enough to remember when MacRumors users pointed to the first and second generation Apple Watch and called it a flop and how “nobody wears watches”. I’ll be here in a couple more years when HomePod is in its third year and a must have gadget for the tens of millions of Apple Music subscribers who want better audio than a $30 tin can.
You can search for user playlist in Apple Music itself. My “Cloud of Sils Maria” soundtrack playlist is great.
Search it and you’ll find it.I think the reason could be because Spotify exists way longer than Apple Music which is only 3-4 years old? So Apple Music users might not get used to share songs that much even though I saw people added my playlists all the time.
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How do you define “objectively worse”? Available track count? Apple Music takes it. Number of people willing to pay for it?Well, Apple takes that now too.
Quality of suggested playlists? Well, now you’re getting subjective. What I like and what you like are totally different. I love the songs that are played for me when I ask Siri to play something.
Even deciding which metric(s) to take into account is subjective in of itself.
So, no. It’s not “objectively better” other than in your own head.
I was fine with Apple Music until my promotional Verizon subscription lapsed (I was intending to renew). It was then that I discovered that Apple essentially took ownership of the previously created playlists on my idevices and when it lapsed Apple erased all playlists--built from *owned* music and which had existed prior to getting a subscription.
It was quite the drag to reconstruct them from my computer and bring them up to date. I'm trying out Spotify, since I don't like the merger of purchased and rented music. Though the writing is on the wall that none of us will be able to buy music in a few years--it will all be music services.
It was quite the drag to reconstruct them from my computer and bring them up to date. I'm trying out Spotify, since I don't like the merger of purchased and rented music. Though the writing is on the wall that none of us will be able to buy music in a few years--it will all be music services.
Turn on icloud music library in settings and all your playlists come back, just as you had them.
First time that happened to me I was pretty mad. Where are my playlists?! Turn on icloud music and they were all there again.
I also use songshift to keep my apple music and spotify playlists in sync.
You can search for user playlist in Apple Music itself. My “Cloud of Sils Maria” soundtrack playlist is great.
I think the reason is Spotify exist way longer than Apple Music which is only 3-4 years old? So Apple Music users might not get used to share songs that much even though I saw people added my playlists all the time.
i know! That's an excellent point. I have found so many good tracks listening to playlists curated by other AM users through a simple search. It's pretty incredible--makes me wonder if any of these people and I should go have a beer or something.
I treid to look up your playlist, but came up empty. Probably a regional thing, as I am in Canada. That might be a downside I hadn't considered.
I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe not underestimate their determination into this new focus. I just wish I had gotten the memo in some Tim Cook speech about how he sees the future as 'digital services' industry. Maybe I missed it.
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You need to update your Siri sucks firmware. Not sure why you think she’s dumb or the playlists are bad. Post something specific or it’s just generic hate.
I'm not subscribed to either service but listen to Spotify free daily. I don't even think about opening/subscribing Apple music. Apple's music selection just isn't there.