prwnrJul 12, 2023

Apple Music or Spotify? what do you use and why?

https://programming.dev/post/587908

Apple Music or Spotify? what do you use and why? - programming.dev

Just wondering out here, cause Im really torn between these two. With Spotify family and Apple One I use both alternately and in both Im missing some parts that the other one have. - for Apple Music I mostly lack good new songs suggestion algorithm, because it very often just plays me a song that I would never ever listen to - and that’s based on “continue playing” from current playlist. - for Spotify I lack Losseless and Spatialise. in terms of UI, both are somewhat not great - Apple Music is cumbersome and hard to navigate to song that is currently playing. - Spotify is just too much noise on the screen for me What are your thoughts?

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For me, the dealbreaker with Apple Music is that they nuke your library a few months after you canceled your subscription. I tried it back in the day when it was new and used it happily for some time, but the difficulty of finding new tracks that I like drove me back to Spotify. I then wanted to give AM another try recently, only to find out that my old library was empty. I immediately canceled the AM trial after that…

Also I found that Spotify has a greater pool of niche stuff that I listen to.

The other reasons why I prefer Spotify have already been mentioned:

  • better discoverability of new music
  • better cross platform support (I use both Mac and Windows)
Jul 12, 2023 at 11:02amWeb