Every service feels like a compromise in some way. I kind of rotate through. Currently on Spotify.
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“I switched to Spotify two months ago — and I miss Apple Music every day”
- Thread starter BAD
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People like different things and have differences preferences or requirements for a service. That's how the modern software industry thrives.
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.
I am happy to use either Google or Spotify but Apple Music is awful, don't even use the free trials I constantly get offered now.
Until Spotify allows me to add the fundreds of live bootleg albums from my favorite bands, it's useless to me. I also think it's UI is needlessly cluttered, and unintuitive, but that's probably because I spend so much time on Apple Music. I personally love Apple Music, but I agree that Spotify has it beat with regards to playlists. I'll usually fire up my free Spotify account when I have people over, it's better for those situations.
Is this new? Because I never utilized this when I was subbed or even noticed it was a feature.
It'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
I've been on Spotify for years and it's treated me fine, but have considered the move to Apple Music. Problem is, my house is loaded with Google Homes, which don't play well with Apple Music. But on iOS, you can't change the default music application, so if you want to ask Siri to play something (like, say, driving), you're screwed. Bleh.
Kinda unrelated, but is there any streaming service that offers a function similar to Sensme, where it shuffles your library songs according to certain mood categories?
I wish Rdio was still around. Two huge features I miss:
- Search by record label
- The social bits- The reviews, sending a song to another user etc.
Interesting. Not gonna lie, I'll never put in the work required to make this worthwhile, but it's a cool feature to have
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 added
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.
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.
Recently Added smart playlist is created by default for everyone who installs the app. Of course I see the value in that particular smart playlist. Spotify has discovery playlists that are automatically created on a daily and weekly basis.
Lol
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.
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.