There's probably half a dozen reasons I prefer my problematic Swedish music streamer to the eponymous offering from Cupertino, and here's one.
If you like the music in a TV show like "Outer Range?" There's a pretty good chance someone has made a playlist of it. In this case, the playlist was made by the company that makes the show.
This is awesome, and everyone should do this.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5WpT0LRFI3q5GIC2hUXFq5?si=52847051bb8d4790
Another great one is the "Righteous Gemstones" playlist.
They've thought so much about what music can do for their story.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2lt8SdLmOC6ARmz7mwsKEY?si=b90731bbf0aa450b
How about an influential punk rock concert movie?
The actual ~soundtrack~ has been OOP since the late 80s, and, weirdly, the movie only streams on Kanopy.
But, somebody cared enough to make a playlist of the original songs and then shared it. They gave you a little piece of their heart.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3KC7Gl2kOqPW2y8GuS2tmy?si=f03bd1560ce94861
Apple Music is mostly a tureen for the squirty 808 fistulas of dysthymic 26-year-old boys with clip art face tattoos.
Not a ton of heart.
One time iTunes Match creamed my personally uploaded and matched actual personal copy of “The Blueprint.”
They replaced it with a lower bitrate *CLEAN* version. Wheeee!
Metadata matters, you dingalings.
https://open.spotify.com/album/69CmkikTHkGKdkrUZTtyWl?si=hdrDsJI6TKG-AD63gt9xPA
@hotdogsladies Awesome! I've really been enjoying it the past month.
Plus, I finally get to prove to the very long list of ex-girlfriends and store clerks how silly they were for making fun of me for meticulously hauling around these mp3s for two decades.
@hotdogsladies I had a song that was replaced with a song with a radio announcer in the middle of the song!!!
I moaned to support about it and they credited my account .99c to buy the proper version 😂
You've seen pappy's epitaph then?
@hotdogsladies I couldn’t tell you exactly how, but Fruit Company has made it so difficult to build and post and share playlists that all the music mags and sites and blogs noncommercial radio and social media posters can’t be bothered.
It’s highly telling that their own joke of ‘100 best albums’ linked to a website of carousel images, but never to any of the music in their streaming platform. What gives with THAT?
I recently realized that anything that team makes in slow motion becomes an instant classic.
“Let. The boy. Watch.”
That show is so goddamned funny. Just solely the antics between Danny and Walton but then—every thing else too.
The commitment is unreal.
"Pies on the windowsill, swimmin’ in the crick.
Catchin’ crawdads and playin’ with a stick.
I wore lipstick.
And I got caught shavin’.
Just two little country kids outside misbehavin’."
@hotdogsladies I may need to experiment with Spotify again.
I remember when they first came to the US in 2011 and the audio quality was not great, and I was won over by “Mog” due to their higher quality streaming (also Spotify lacked Pink Floyd and RHCP?). Mog eventually became Beats Music, which turned into Apple Music.
@hotdogsladies Oh how I miss the soundtrack playlists. If you haven't already, check out lists for “Breaking Bad” and “Legion.” There's some great music there! I rebuilt the Breaking Bad soundtrack as well as I could in Fruit Music.
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/breaking-bad-soundtrack/pl.u-PJPgCexZz8
This is 100% true.
Semi related. Have you used @viticci's ChatGPT shortcut to generate playlists? This is a -killer- feature. Tell the shortcut what you like, then say "generate playlist of _____" and boom, it makes an exportable playlist that opens in Apple Music.
Thanks for the tip!
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