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Spotify Users: First impression of Apple Music?
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No, it doesn't. The playlist on my iphone do not appear on my ipad. Yes, everything is set up correctly. Also, they need to add the option to create a new playlist when adding a song. Opposed to having to create a new playlist then add songs.
I am a Spotify user and I have really liked Apple Music, integration is great, and for me biggest advantage over Spotify are recommendations which are a lot more accurate than on Spotify. I have found the interface to be not quite as simple as I would expect from Apple but I like the design.
I am planning on canceling my Spotify Subscription only problem is i've encountered some bugs with some songs I've had to delete and redownload, another problem even though it not that importante is the lag in between songs, it takes longer to start playing songs which is a little annoying for me, finally one of my biggest issues has been the fact that on the App Store I normally use my father's account to download apps, but now with apple music, whenever I login to that account on the App Store, it logs me out of Apple Music and deletes all my downloaded songs, which means once I login again I have to star downloading everything again, this has been my biggest problem with the service.
I am planning on canceling my Spotify Subscription only problem is i've encountered some bugs with some songs I've had to delete and redownload, another problem even though it not that importante is the lag in between songs, it takes longer to start playing songs which is a little annoying for me, finally one of my biggest issues has been the fact that on the App Store I normally use my father's account to download apps, but now with apple music, whenever I login to that account on the App Store, it logs me out of Apple Music and deletes all my downloaded songs, which means once I login again I have to star downloading everything again, this has been my biggest problem with the service.
I'm a long term user of Apple products, and a big fan, but this version of iTunes, and Apple Music is absolute rubbish. I've spent the better part of a day and a half fixing problems created by it. Never have I had such a bad experience with a piece of software put out by Apple (in more than 13 years). I've had numerous crashes, playlists going missing, thousands of songs that have had local copies disconnected from my library (Apple WERE generous enough to allow me to download a DRM protected version of my OWN music when this happened). I started fixing all the problems, because I really wanted this to work, but the more I looked, the more issues I found. Now I've admitted defeat, blitzed my entire local library to hopefully get rid of all online copies and will stop using Apple Music entirely. I was very much looking forward to being able to use this, but this is completely ridiculous. It's Apple Maps all over again.
Had you never used iTunes Match before? It was a big prelude to all the issues many have been having since the launch of Apple Music. Once you figure out the servers take forever to load up and you've changed it 10 times I think they just get confused and it goes into breakdown mode. I've seriously had to walk away from a system updating your iTunes Match changes many times. It is unintuitive and slow, but when Match works it is great. It is the Jeckyll/Hyde of Apple!
i am just too used to navigating Spotify over all these years i just cant get the hang of AM. too much clicking and flipping around. my list of music is so long now because every single song from a playlist gets added there that i just cbf looking for something
If you are looking for your own songs why don't you just use the finder?
note: the normal one; not the one in the music app.
As with others I feel Apple Music needs too many clicks and attention as compared to Spotify. I primarily listen to music on several different computers (Mac and PC) and Spotify handles the transition between them in a much better fashion. It always remembers where I left off and preserves the mood a bit better.
Using Apple Music means using iTunes and dealing with its bright white on white interface. The dark look of Spotify is much easier on the eyes and better suited to late night listening etc. iTunes has all sorts of bugs as well, as an example on my Windows PC the Genre pulldown under the New tab doesn't work at all (see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7106680).
As for sound quality I would say Spotify has the edge and I am wondering if iTunes is streaming at a lower bitrate than 256 at times. There is a certain transistor radio sound to a lot of what we are hearing on Apple Music and it has more energy in the treble in general.
In any event it is going to be free all summer and I would say my impression of it has improved since doing some likes and getting some good suggestions. But it will have to be quite a bit better for me to cancel Spotify.
Using Apple Music means using iTunes and dealing with its bright white on white interface. The dark look of Spotify is much easier on the eyes and better suited to late night listening etc. iTunes has all sorts of bugs as well, as an example on my Windows PC the Genre pulldown under the New tab doesn't work at all (see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7106680).
As for sound quality I would say Spotify has the edge and I am wondering if iTunes is streaming at a lower bitrate than 256 at times. There is a certain transistor radio sound to a lot of what we are hearing on Apple Music and it has more energy in the treble in general.
In any event it is going to be free all summer and I would say my impression of it has improved since doing some likes and getting some good suggestions. But it will have to be quite a bit better for me to cancel Spotify.
Long time Spotify Premium user here. Definitely not ready to switch to Apple Music yet but have been enjoying playing around with it. I find Apple Music to be very counterintuitive. I don't mean to say that I find it confusing, I understand everything it does and how it's organized, I just disagree with the way Apple has done so.
My biggest pet peeve: Why can I "heart" songs so easily, but actually adding it to my collection is a 3 step process? Plus, doesn't the fact that I've added it to my collection signify that I like it? Is the heart feature really necessary at all? Regardless, we can have both, but I need adding music to my collection to be quicker.
My biggest pet peeve: Why can I "heart" songs so easily, but actually adding it to my collection is a 3 step process? Plus, doesn't the fact that I've added it to my collection signify that I like it? Is the heart feature really necessary at all? Regardless, we can have both, but I need adding music to my collection to be quicker.
I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that Apple Music suffers from having a significantly different experience on the mobile platform than on the traditional OS front. The mobile platform, while still seemingly suffering from being demanding on the device's resources and having an inefficient interface, requires little of the constant maintenance that the desktop/notebook iTunes does. Perhaps my observations are not quite true, because I was spending so much time trying to get traditional iTunes program to work with Apple Music, but it just felt like there was less frustration. I didn't feel like I had to keep going through the Genius/Match/iCloud process on iOS, meanwhile that was where I spent hours on my notebook computers. I wasn't constantly trying to remember if I click this little thing here or there, will I get to the view I want, will I go back to my search results, can I add, edit, or subtract from my existing playlists? That's what has been the problem since, what iTunes 11 some few years ago? As such, while iTunes on Windows or Mac feels like it's struggling to keep up with basic operations, the iOS counterpart functions more like Spotify in being able to remember what I was doing and how I am an authorized user.
That's what makes Spotify so powerful. It's got a nearly-consistent user experience across all platforms. It's relatively simple, it's consistent, and is unlikely to cause mayhem on one or more devices. That's not what I've witnessed with Apple Music, unfortunately.
That's what makes Spotify so powerful. It's got a nearly-consistent user experience across all platforms. It's relatively simple, it's consistent, and is unlikely to cause mayhem on one or more devices. That's not what I've witnessed with Apple Music, unfortunately.
Yup - agree with that completely.
I'd been using Spotify more recently, but really just to listen to albums so not that heavy a user.
The thing that bugs me most about Spotify is when you tap on an artist in Your Music - you get one long list of songs, rather than a list of albums, which is how Apple Music does it.
Admittedly I haven't played around too much with Spotify, but can you combine your own library with stuff you add to your Spotify music as seamlessly as Apple Music does?
So for me Apple Music seems pretty great in that I have all of My Music combined in one place, and I can go Artist > Album > Song.
AM does not have any advantages over Spotify for my taste and therefore i will stay with Spotify for the moment.
I am reading elsewhere also that getting recommendations for similar music you like is better on AM.
I am confused as to where to go and listen to begin with to get those recommendations.
I am confused as to where to go and listen to begin with to get those recommendations.
The downsides for me, so far, of Apple Music are that it takes me longer to make a playlist (I liked the drag/drop of Spotify) and that all the songs that I put in playlists then seem to appear in my music. Sometimes, I want a song in a playlist, but I don't really want it in my music, if that makes sense.
I switched from Spotify to Apple Music to give it a try. Besides all the issues everyone has named here, what I really enjoyed from Spotify was that they have a huge amount of playlists created by them or users and Apple Music seems really poor on that area (Like study playlists, mood-based playlists, etc.).
I would expect that to change going forward. I hope Apple provides a way to search for other user's playlists within AM.
There are playlists like that, but quite hidden away, and not in the most obvious place.
They're in the 'new' tab in iTunes - a little bit down there are three panels:
- Apple Music Editors
- Activities
- Curators
I'm using the iOS 9 beta just now, but assume they are lurking in the iOS 8.4 app somewhere.
I noticed that the album art for each (a square showing four albums) doesn't necessarily match a song in the playlist, which I guess is a bug.
They're in the 'new' tab in iTunes - a little bit down there are three panels:
- Apple Music Editors
- Activities
- Curators
I'm using the iOS 9 beta just now, but assume they are lurking in the iOS 8.4 app somewhere.
I noticed that the album art for each (a square showing four albums) doesn't necessarily match a song in the playlist, which I guess is a bug.
I really hope so, and also the ability to rank them by popularity.
Yes, they do have the same options than Spotify, where you can look for playlist based on mood or activity. But if you look at Study Playlists for example, they're not that good. Playlists that appear in "Study" are: "Intro to XX Artists", "Intro to XX type of music", etc. whereas in Spotify there's "Deep Studying", "Indie music for study sessions", and so on...
That's what the "For You" tab is for. When you "heart" songs the for you tab will spit out "curated" playlists including the artists and kind of songs you loved.
Yes, this was my biggest loss when i closed my Spotify, i'm crossing my fingers for a Roku app to come some day, i'm not really holding my breath. (Buy hey they did announce an Android app...)