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Compare this to Spotify Premium: - Syncing an album for offline play is a checkbox. - I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other de

Compare this to Spotify Premium: - Syncing an album for offline play is a checkbox. - I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other device logged into the account - Robust song discovery - Massive back-catalog - HD Playback It's absurd that iTunes, my phone's native media player, is worse than a third-party app.

threeseed 10y ago
Apple Music has ALL of these features. Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users. Apple is great because of Beats 1 and their curated playlists. But the core features are basically identical.
- krisdol 10y ago
  Spotify is great for many more foreign and obscure genres and artists. It's nowhere near complete, but it gets closest to having everything I look for.
- thirdsun 10y ago
  > Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users I guess you've never experienced rdio? There we had a real thriving community of music lovers. Albums were discussed in comments under the item in questions, comments were rated, replies could be added. Popular and recent comments of your friends were featured on your frontpage. The heavy rotation section revealed a single users' (or a group for that matter) current taste at a glance, I could start any user's personal radio station. Compared to that Spotify is a social tragedy - the activity tab has to be one of the most disappointing areas of the service. I can shout, but nobody can get back to me or discuss anything there.
  - subliminalpanda 10y ago
    I would love to try rdio, but since I do not live in the US I can't register at all.
    - thirdsun 10y ago
      Unfortunately you can't register from anywhere anymore. They closed shop (or have been bought by Pandora, which then closed the service) late last year.
      - subliminalpanda 10y ago
        Well that's unfortunate.
- developer2 10y ago
  >> the core features are basically identical Apple's UI for the Music app is practically unusable compared to Spotify's. They make it so bloody hard to find anything. One screen contains 4 different actions, with a tiny half-height panel being swipeable to get at critical functionality that should be on a dedicated screen. It's not a professional interface. >> Apple is great because of Beats 1 ... if I wanted radio I would subscribe to Sirius. I'm not going to pay $10+/month for a single radio station.
- kaosjester 10y ago
  You're blowing my mind. Apple Music's interface is so bad that I literally did not know it could do any of these.
joch 10y ago
> - I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other device logged into the account This is the only reason for me sticking with Spotify instead of Apple Music. It lets me have the Spotify app running on my htpc and I can easily control it from any device running Spotify. No need for AirPlay, Bluetooth etc.

threeseed 10y ago

Apple Music has ALL of these features. Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users. Apple is great because of Beats 1 and their curated playlists. But the core features are basically identical.

krisdol 10y ago
Spotify is great for many more foreign and obscure genres and artists. It's nowhere near complete, but it gets closest to having everything I look for.
thirdsun 10y ago
> Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users I guess you've never experienced rdio? There we had a real thriving community of music lovers. Albums were discussed in comments under the item in questions, comments were rated, replies could be added. Popular and recent comments of your friends were featured on your frontpage. The heavy rotation section revealed a single users' (or a group for that matter) current taste at a glance, I could start any user's personal radio station. Compared to that Spotify is a social tragedy - the activity tab has to be one of the most disappointing areas of the service. I can shout, but nobody can get back to me or discuss anything there.
- subliminalpanda 10y ago
  I would love to try rdio, but since I do not live in the US I can't register at all.
  - thirdsun 10y ago
    Unfortunately you can't register from anywhere anymore. They closed shop (or have been bought by Pandora, which then closed the service) late last year.
    - subliminalpanda 10y ago
      Well that's unfortunate.
developer2 10y ago
>> the core features are basically identical Apple's UI for the Music app is practically unusable compared to Spotify's. They make it so bloody hard to find anything. One screen contains 4 different actions, with a tiny half-height panel being swipeable to get at critical functionality that should be on a dedicated screen. It's not a professional interface. >> Apple is great because of Beats 1 ... if I wanted radio I would subscribe to Sirius. I'm not going to pay $10+/month for a single radio station.
kaosjester 10y ago
You're blowing my mind. Apple Music's interface is so bad that I literally did not know it could do any of these.

joch 10y ago

> - I can play music on any device logged into the account from any other device logged into the account This is the only reason for me sticking with Spotify instead of Apple Music. It lets me have the Spotify app running on my htpc and I can easily control it from any device running Spotify. No need for AirPlay, Bluetooth etc.