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I switched from Spotify to Apple Music fairly recently and I am still shocked on the daily how poorly built Apple Music is. In the several years I subscribed to
by voisin 5y ago
I switched from Spotify to Apple Music fairly recently and I am still shocked on the daily how poorly built Apple Music is. In the several years I subscribed to Spotify I never had issues of content not loading or choppiness in the playback, but with Apple Music it is nearly every day.
The only thing Apple Music has going for it over Spotify (in my opinion) is that the recommendations are easily 10x better for discovering new content.
- Gigachad 5y agoI only tried music streaming last year and started with Apple Music and was shocked at how outright broken the platform is. Like I’d press play and a different song on the page would play. Or it would start lagging out really bad until I reload the page. Shocked and how poor apple did here considering I haven’t had issues with any other product from them.
- mullingitover 5y ago> Shocked and how poor apple did here considering I haven’t had issues with any other product from them. You must not have tried Apple Home.
- beebmam 5y agoI actually find apple music discovery to be far worse for my tastes than Spotify. But nothing even comes close to the SoundCloud Weekly and SoundCloud Upload discovery playlists. I've found such incredible indie musicians through those playlists. I can't rave enough about them.
- bradly 5y ago> The only thing Apple Music has going for it over Spotify (in my opinion) is that the recommendations are easily 10x better for discovering new content. Thank you! I spent the last few years working on improving the quality of those recommendations!
- sho_hn 5y agoYour post surprised me: I can't think of any other Apple employees publically talking about their work, other than the early years of the WebKit team.
- bradly 5y agoI’m ex-Apple, so that may help, but I was once told it’s fine to talk about anything that is in a job posting. People are working on almost everything, so I don’t feel like I’m giving away anything shocking. Apple is a big place, though. My experience may not be the same as others.
- pssdbt 5y agoGreat work!
- archagon 5y agoCan you tell me more? Last I tried (a number of years ago), the recommendations were completely mainstream and uninteresting, whereas Discover Weekly routinely dredged up almost-unknown artists that quickly turned into favorites. Can Apple Music do something similar today? Does it use a similar approach to Spotify or is it curated somehow?
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- DanHulton 5y agoI'm in the same boat, but one extra thing I found that Apple Music does better is sound quality. I'm not an audiophile by any means, but even I noticed immediately that music sounded _much_ better, like, very noticeably. But yeah, aside from that, it's kind of a miserable experience. Hard to believe it's _still_ so bad.
- philliphaydon 5y agoWow I moved from Spotify to Apple about… 6 months ago? My experience has been better than Spotify. Searching in the olddddd Spotify apple (pre electron days) worked so well. But then they broke it when moving to electron and never fixed it.
- jbergens 5y agoTry Tidal or Qobuz, they should work.
- strofcon 5y agoAnd weirdly (as tech tends to be), Spotify was terribad for me in terms of stability and playback continuity. :-D But yea, Apple Music is not great here either. Haven't had enough time with their suggestion engine, but Spotify's is indeed pretty awful.
- myko 5y agoYouTube music is by far the best about recommendations IME. Shame about the app and smart device integration, though - often telling a speaker to play music on the TV will just have audio and not video, for example.