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Apple has long had a much better experience when it comes to offline use and private media. With iCloud, tracks you add to your library are automatically uploa
by atombender 7y ago
Apple has long had a much better experience when it comes to offline use and private media.
With iCloud, tracks you add to your library are automatically uploaded to Apple's cloud and become available on all devices. That helps a lot because you don't have to resort to using some other player for that those obscure albums that aren't streaming anywhere. After all, while Apple and Spotify have a lot of music, there are still many holes in their inventories.
Apple has always been much nicer about offline track availability. Just click the download icon and the tracks will stay on your device. Spotify has had this feature, but it's been flaky. After Apple Music launched, they eventually added a "Download" toggle to albums, but only in the mobile app (it's there for playlists in the desktop app, for some reason).
Spotify has a 10,000 song limit that applies to adding (or "liking" as it's now called) to your library. You can keep more in playlists, but you can't "like" more than 10,000 songs, which is crazy. It's not a lot of songs. My jazz collection alone is more than that. Apple's limit is 100,000, as far as I can tell.
- NetOpWibby 7y agoAs I read your comment I'm listening to "I Learnt Some Jazz Today", haha!
- saagarjha 7y agoAnd to bring your musing full circle, Apple used that in a recent AirPods ad: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yyNtm0LZiKc https://youtube.com/watch?v=yyNtm0LZiKc
- NetOpWibby 7y agoYes, and that's why I was listening to it! They have a playlist for music they use in ads https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/heard-in-apple-ads/pl.b28c3a5975b04436b42680595f6983ad https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/heard-in-apple-ads/pl.b2...