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Even I hope so. Discover Weekly and their curated playlists are some of the best I have seen across all music services. Even their cross platform support is the

Even I hope so. Discover Weekly and their curated playlists are some of the best I have seen across all music services. Even their cross platform support is the best. Play Music has a terrible app and web UI. Even Apple Music doesn't fare any better.

foepys 9y ago
> Even their cross platform support is the best. Even if it's based on Electron, their Linux desktop client at least exists and this is reason enough for me to keep being a subscriber. The web player is working but is missing features and has some major bugs (e.g., I cannot "dislike" a song on a playlist). My one wish would be for it to get on the same level of playlist management that Amarok, Foobar2000 and similar music players were on like 15 years ago... Amazon Music's desktop client, despite also being Electron-based, is only available on Windows and Mac and its usability is so bad, I cannot even describe it. There is a reason why Amazon Music is a lot cheaper: it's worse in every metric beside costs that I were evaluating.
- arghwhat 9y ago
  > despite also being Electron-based, is only available on Windows and Mac Electron does not make cross-compilation easy. It's about as cumbersome as building any other C++ project for multiple platforms.
- diggan 9y ago
  Since when is Spotify a Electron application? I recall it having the UI made with JavaScript, HTML and CSS but all the rest is handled with C++. Think they were using Chromium Embedded Framework.
  - foepys 9y ago
    Oh, I were under the impression that it's electron. Even better then.
- kristianc 9y ago
  As far as I know the Ubuntu port was made by Canonical and is a Snap package, not an Electron app.
H1Supreme 9y ago
What's wrong with Play's UI? Seems easy enough to use. I can find music and stream my library without much fuss.
8ytecoder 9y ago
Google Play Music is the best deal out there - ad-free Youtube TV is bundled in the plan and allows you to upload your own music that you can stream from anywhere. That said, it's the absolute worst in terms of UI and cross platform support. I kept switching between subscriptions because Spotify still doesn't allow uploads (which I really need). But gave up on everyone and decided to just sync my personal music to my phone and use Spotify. The Discover Weekly and other playlists combined with a really solid cross-platform support I'm not moving to anything else. I have a windows computer, an xbox one, iPhone, Alexa, a Macbook and chromecast and Spotify works on every one of them. No one's ever going to beat that. That said, I'd very skeptical of investing in Spotify. Apple Music has a real chance of becoming the default service everyone subscribes to on their iPhone without thinking twice. Apple Music just have to be good enough.
- lotsofpulp 9y ago
  Google play all access comes with Youtube Red, which is YouTube without ads. YouTube TV is a different product, which still has ads since it's just delivering TV channels over internet.
- wesd 9y ago
  >ad-free Youtube TV is bundled in the plan Only in US.
- Orphis 9y ago
  What kind of phone do people have in emerging countries? Certainly not an Apple one. I wouldn't worry about Apple too much, the market will become saturated in some countries after some years where they are popular. But in other countries, where they only use Android, who do you think will win the market?

foepys 9y ago

> Even their cross platform support is the best. Even if it's based on Electron, their Linux desktop client at least exists and this is reason enough for me to keep being a subscriber. The web player is working but is missing features and has some major bugs (e.g., I cannot "dislike" a song on a playlist). My one wish would be for it to get on the same level of playlist management that Amarok, Foobar2000 and similar music players were on like 15 years ago... Amazon Music's desktop client, despite also being Electron-based, is only available on Windows and Mac and its usability is so bad, I cannot even describe it. There is a reason why Amazon Music is a lot cheaper: it's worse in every metric beside costs that I were evaluating.

arghwhat 9y ago
> despite also being Electron-based, is only available on Windows and Mac Electron does not make cross-compilation easy. It's about as cumbersome as building any other C++ project for multiple platforms.
diggan 9y ago
Since when is Spotify a Electron application? I recall it having the UI made with JavaScript, HTML and CSS but all the rest is handled with C++. Think they were using Chromium Embedded Framework.
- foepys 9y ago
  Oh, I were under the impression that it's electron. Even better then.
kristianc 9y ago
As far as I know the Ubuntu port was made by Canonical and is a Snap package, not an Electron app.

H1Supreme 9y ago

What's wrong with Play's UI? Seems easy enough to use. I can find music and stream my library without much fuss.

8ytecoder 9y ago

Google Play Music is the best deal out there - ad-free Youtube TV is bundled in the plan and allows you to upload your own music that you can stream from anywhere. That said, it's the absolute worst in terms of UI and cross platform support. I kept switching between subscriptions because Spotify still doesn't allow uploads (which I really need). But gave up on everyone and decided to just sync my personal music to my phone and use Spotify. The Discover Weekly and other playlists combined with a really solid cross-platform support I'm not moving to anything else. I have a windows computer, an xbox one, iPhone, Alexa, a Macbook and chromecast and Spotify works on every one of them. No one's ever going to beat that. That said, I'd very skeptical of investing in Spotify. Apple Music has a real chance of becoming the default service everyone subscribes to on their iPhone without thinking twice. Apple Music just have to be good enough.

lotsofpulp 9y ago
Google play all access comes with Youtube Red, which is YouTube without ads. YouTube TV is a different product, which still has ads since it's just delivering TV channels over internet.
wesd 9y ago
>ad-free Youtube TV is bundled in the plan Only in US.
Orphis 9y ago
What kind of phone do people have in emerging countries? Certainly not an Apple one. I wouldn't worry about Apple too much, the market will become saturated in some countries after some years where they are popular. But in other countries, where they only use Android, who do you think will win the market?