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If Spotify doesn't finally use this to download songs without requiring me to open the app then I'm going to riot
by omni 7y ago
If Spotify doesn't finally use this to download songs without requiring me to open the app then I'm going to riot
- p2t2p 7y agoI stopped using Spotify exactly because quality of their apps is just not acceptable.
- ardit33 7y agoJust curious, What do you use instead?
- matt-attack 7y agoApple Music is pretty killer. No complaints.
- BadassFractal 7y agoIs the catalog comparable? Does it have anything like Discover Weekly?
- cachvico 7y agoThey're very comparable (I'm a paid user of both). I've discovered realms of amazing music through the recommendation engines of both of them.
- r00fus 7y agoI find more stuff on Spotify than Apple Music. I am a huge Apple fan, but Spotify is better in so many ways (Discover weekly and other lists like “piano ballads” - which while not perfect are better than I get on Apple Music) Maybe it’s because my wife and I share music lists or something but the recommendation engine in Apple Music is not good for me.
- p2t2p 7y agoI use Apple Music + bring a lot of my personal collection into it. Luckily it also is able to sync this collection across devices. I believe that the catalogue in Spotify is a bit better, at least I didn't see "this song is not available in your country" messages in Spotify. In Apple Music I see it all the time.
- david-cako 7y agoMy thoughts: Apple Music is so much more baked into the Apple ecosystem, isn’t a rip off (as I might expect), and doesn’t have crappy selection (as I was afraid of — it has pretty much all of the niche stuff I didn’t expect it to). iCloud and Apple Music are just part of the device purchase for me tbh. The whole thing is supposed to work together, and it does for the most part. Someone mentioned regional licensing issues on Apple Music, which makes sense. I have not seen that yet in the US.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoOn iOS? This feature is new in iOS 13, so there was no way Spotify could have offered this capability before, right? Of course, there is no such limitation for Apple's apps.
- p2t2p 7y agoI'm not complaining about this feature, I'm talking about overall feeling of their priorities. It took them ages to have an Apple Watch up with folks like VOX had it no time. Their priorities are unclear, highly voted feature take ages to appear in the apps, the apps itself look like compromise and attempt to save on developers and reuse as much of web version as possible. It just doesn't feel like a carefully designed experience. I'm not saying Apple Music is perfect or anybody else, I just choose the less annoying thing for myself.
- consistency 7y agoThey made a site to explain this: https://timetoplayfair.com/timeline/ https://timetoplayfair.com/timeline/.
- david-cako 7y agoBackground transfer service could do this. Also, background fetch and background notifications both allowed arbitrary background execution, but only up to 30 seconds. This feature replaces background fetch.
- omni 7y agoNetflix seems to make it work just fine with their Smart Downloads feature
- novok 7y agoI use apple music because of the homepod but i miss Spotify. Discover weekly was good, automatic genre stations were good and didn’t repeat themselves and it has a much better ecosystem of custom curated playlists compared to apple. Apple music ux is a bit clunky at times and Spotify buffered songs better
- saagarjha 7y agoSpotify has been somewhat deceptive when talking about the APIs they've been given before, so I'm not particularly hopeful.