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?

  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    There is one nit feature that is making me hold on to Spotify — sync “Now Playing” queue among devices. Also its extension, control music playback of a device from another device.

    These are features that I use day to day, and in the 3 months I used Apple Music, I was reminded of its absence every time.

    The discovery algorithm used by Spotify is also better but the aforementioned features inhibit Apple Music’s UX enough to make me not use it.

  • peanutyam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Spotify Premium - because firstly don’t care about paying for it as I use it literally every single day and after using it for nearly 10 years the algorithms are perfect when it comes to music recommendations - plus it has a better catalogue as I listen to some pretty obscure non-mainstream dance and jazz/funk music. As for the UI it’s fine as I guess I am used to it. As for music sound quality - if I want music sound quality I will listen to my CD collection but for streaming via Bluetooth buds out and about with ANC it’s a moot point really…

    • Kinobe@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Same. It doesn’t cost that much, for how much we (family) use it, it’s worth the price.

  • uhauljoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use Spotify.

    I used to go back and forth a lot but I think I’m sticking with spotify.

    I like the design of Apple Music but their recommendations suck.

    I find most of my new music by using a button on spotify that’s called enhanced shuffle or something. but you click it on a playlist and it will insert random recommendations that you can easily add to the playlist if you like it.

    i love it cause it just mixes it in with your regular music so you can really tell if it flows nicely in that playlist or if it kills the vibe a little.

  • Copper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve used both Spotify premium (for 3 years) then switched to Apple Music to try it, keep it for a couple of months, back to Spotify premium, then finally back to Apple Music. In my opinion Spotify has better suggestions, but it may be because I used it for longer, but I hate the app and if your privacy conscious it’s a nightmare. Apple Music has a superior audio quality in the base plan, if you are on an Apple system it’s worth the price for its integration and at least your not selling your data to others as much as spotify. I think both web interfaces works really well anyway, if you don’t like the apps

  • Noit@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    YouTube Music. Apple Music and Spotify are both technically better products, but YouTube Music is free with YouTube Premium and so I can save on a music subscription.

    Before I made that call I had picked Spotify as it gave me access to a web player, and just worked better on my Google Home speakers.

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Kind of in the same boat right now. I’m using Apple Music right now for the following:

    • Lossless should be the base level at this point, not a premium.
    • The library management in Apple Music is way superior to Spotify, especially for uploading local files. Going to upload some Bandcamp stuff to my Apple Music library in the future.
    • I have an issue on Spotify for Android where my 10k+ liked songs list slows to a crawl. This doesn’t happen to Apple Music. Yeah, it’s choppy when scrolling but I’d rather that than Spotify taking seconds to load the list.

    Though it’s not perfect…

    • there’s no Linux client at all, and though Cider is a great effort there’s some things that I miss using it (gapless playback is one, it’s essential for album listeners like myself) so I’m having to install a Windows VM to run Apple Music.
    • There’s some weird gaps in some artists’ libraries. I listen to quite a bit of Kaskade, and I find it weird that some of his music isn’t on Apple Music in the UK even though it is on Spotify.
    • Scrobbling is an issue. I actually coded a manual scrobbler plugin for MusicBrainz Picard to deal with this.