Every service feels like a compromise in some way. I kind of rotate through. Currently on Spotify.
So now we have streaming music stans.
I'm retiring from the species.
Nobody ever mentions Apple Music's killer feature. Smart Playlists that allow you to set rules to a playlist and have music automatically be added to it. It's hands down the best feature of either service. I feel like I should make a thread about it just to see what people think of it.
they give 5 reasons:
1. the background is black
2. there are too many menus
3. finding downloaded music is a pain
4. music requested with google home ends up in their spotify library
5. too many customization options
#savedyouaclick
Is this new? Because I never utilized this when I was subbed or even noticed it was a feature.Nobody ever mentions Apple Music's killer feature. Smart Playlists that allow you to set rules to a playlist and have music automatically be added to it. It's hands down the best feature of either service. I feel like I should make a thread about it just to see what people think of it.
Is this new? Because I never utilized this when I was subbed or even noticed it was a feature.
Interesting. Not gonna lie, I'll never put in the work required to make this worthwhile, but it's a cool feature to haveIt's been a feature I THINK, for many many years, even during iPod days. The catch is it's only done on iTunes. I know I know, iTunes is terrible blah blah blah. This feature is so good that it's worth installing it
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19487?locale=en_US
The rules you can create are super robust. From genre to date added or year recorded
FUCKING LOL
It's really easy. I have basic ones setup to have all EDM songs added to a playlist, and then I have another EDM favorites playlist that are those same songs, but that I have selected "Love" on. My friends just do simple ones like Seasons or Year addedInteresting. Not gonna lie, I'll never put in the work required to make this worthwhile, but it's a cool feature to have
Highly disagree. If you set your rules good enough it should be better than your manual playlists, unless of course your manual ones don't actually follow a pattern.Smart Playlists have been a thing for over 15 years. It requires you to set good rules and I almost always find it underused compared to my manual playlists like "Fabric," "Fabriclive," "recently added," and the good old faithful "iPhone." It's not that helpful, especially if you're in discovery mode and don't want to listen to the stuff you've already listened to.
EDIT: and to add genius is legit terrible. Some of those auto playlists are full on lol.
Highly disagree. If you set your rules good enough it should be better than your manual playlists, unless of course your manual ones don't actually follow a pattern.
Recently added? How is it not better to have a smartlist add your song to a "recently added" folder as soon as you add it to your library instead of going through menus?
Don't know what "discovery" mode is. But you could add a rule in your playlist to only include songs that haven't been played before.
There are numerous benefits of having Apple Music on an iPhoneLol
Spotify is the only good option.
Apple has an awful interface, a shitty desktop app, shitty music discovery features and a complete lack of community playlists. Google has no desktop app (lol) and the same downsides as apple.
No thanks. Literally no point in either of those services other than competition for Spotify. Using iOS as your main system helps but Spotify works with everything so not much of a benefit.