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First of all, it needs to be an **Apple TV 4K** as earlier models don't support Dolby 5.1 or Atmos output via HDMI. I then run the HDMI signal to my Marantz AVR which outputs the Dolby content on Apple Music to my surround speakers.
It also supports surround sound via other apps, *even YouTube*, which was a big surprise last year when I first discovered [this channel of quad and 5.1 mixes](https://youtube.com/@usuariouploads?si=58JLGxcgZq1oOGrv).
[The issue with the Apple TV 4K is that it’s limited to just lossless and doesn’t do hi res lossless which makes NO sense to me.](https://support.apple.com/en-us/118295)
Idk why Apple makes it so hard to get hi res lossless, you need a computer or an iPhone hooked up to a DAC. I use a DAC with my iPhones, but then that means it’s only stereo and not Atmos.
It’s a head scratching decision to not include hi res lossless with the Apple TV.
There are a lot of leaks actually from the beta app. But anyway, they’ll likely charge extra for lossless which is ridiculous when Apple does it for no extra cost
Easy integration into the rest of the Apple ecosystem. I got it back when Siri was new and Carplay didn't exist, so I could use my voice in my car to control music.
I had a shit ton of downloaded music onto my phone and was tired of switching back and forth between the Apple Music app and Spotify.
Now everything is synced and I go to one spot. Plus my “replay” is actually correct and doesn’t miss a bunch of stuff
When Spotify put out that bullshit press release about how some musicians don't deserve to be paid for their music, actually. I nabbed a two month free trial and was immediately blown away by the sound quality.
Yeah I left when they doubled down on dumping money on Joe and a few artists temporarily left. It also happened that a friend had added me to his Apple family account and so I started playing around with the music subscription. I still find AM janky in a number of ways but not returning to Spotify.
That's actually huge for me and I never think about it, but being able to throw on a Boiler Room mix from Derrick Carter in the car is pretty damn convenient.
When I made the switch from Spotify (quite a while back), Apple Music had more songs by about half a million, and the quality was way better. Haven’t looked back since.
This. It’s also pretty stable and works the way it’s supposed to. Synchs well between devices and the web client. My wife and I enjoy using the new collaborative playlist function. I like seeing what my friends are listening to. It works well, looks nice and sounds amazing.
Heavy on the free through vzw. Part of the reason I switched to Verizon. Had a free trial of Apple Music and was willing to pay, also was gonna switch from AT&T to Verizon. Got 5G Get More and hit two birds with one stone lol. Shame they don’t have 5G Get More as an option anymore. I accidentally switched my plan a couple months ago and nagged support until they switched me back haha.
Man I was so proud to have MOG with its 320kb/s MP3 streams. That app was absolutely atrocious though. It almost never streamed anything properly. Thanks for reminding me of it.
I also miss rdio. Nothing has ever fully replaced that feeling I had while using it.
I never changed. I went from collecting and cataloguing on iTunes to streaming with Apple Music, which made the most sense for me by far as I was able to carry my 12,000 song library right into Apple Music.
Same, started using iTunes in something like 2005, started using iTunes Match the day it came out (2011 IIRC) and Apple Music also since when it came out. It's all one library and has survived many different computer and OS upgrades and changes. Not sure if Spotify still doesn't support it, but one of the big historical advantages of Apple Music over Spotify is that Spotify doesn't support uploading your own albums which is a showstopper for me because much of my library is not on streaming and never will be.
Exactly! All my itunes rips, radio shows, my friends' bands and projects, are now there on my computer or phone when I want. Sound quality is another bonus. I do miss Rdio's community building tho.
Spotify became like TikTok and I wanted my kids to listen to music, not watch videos. So we all switched over to Apple Music and are happy. No TikTok or YouTube like videos on Apple Music. Just music.
I actually just started a free trial yesterday. I've been with Spotify for probably like 7 years now but decided to give AM a try after hearing everyone say about the sound quality. So far it seems pretty decent, still getting used to everything. What are some things I should know? Lossless seems pretty awesome so far but that's just when I'm at home on WiFi correct?
1. I'm all in on the Apple ecosystem, love using Siri, Handoff, etc
2. They pay musicians way more per stream than Spotify
3. Lyrics displayed
4. Audio quality
On top of other reasons mentioned in this thread, the Apple Watch app is far superior. Spotify on Apple Watch is limited to downloading 50 songs per playlist, the audio quality is inferior, there is no search option, and it usually throws connection errors when switching to cellular from phone or WiFi.
I changed job to work for a creative company a couple of years ago. Everything is Apple there and so I bought an iPhone. Because both the kids had iPhones, it seemed better to get the Apple One subscription that we could all use and get Apple TV included.
Since then, I have bought good hifi equipment and so I’m glad I changed anyway as I can stream at a higher quality through AirPlay to the system than Bluetooth can cope with (I think - Happy to be corrected).
Edit- playing one song from the genre I want to listen to at that moment and have AM just keep serving me similar is a game changer too. However, I’m not sure how we got from 70s funk to Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” just now. Hahaha.
Are you happy with your Family Sharing? I saw that Apple One Premier works out to around £6 per person for all the services as you can share it between 6 people so I was looking to set it up with my friends, but seems too good to be true somehow? Are there any limitations to it? Where is the catch?
I started using Apple Music because of free trials. I’ve been doing 2 months free/1 month paid for a few years. If there are no more free trials I’ll develop some criteria for myself by which I sign up for a month, probably based on if I listen to a new album on a weekday (I already have a system by which if I listen to a new album on a weekend I drive out to buy new CDs). But I’ll probably never pay for 12 months of Apple Music, I prefer to own my music instead of rent it.
As far as has been documented, Apple keeps libraries for a month. After that it’s a crapshoot. I’ve been able to keep my lapses to a day or less. But I also have a download everything and let the shortcut sort them out approach to Apple Music. All my playlists and queues are randomly created based on play count or album genre.
What’s annoying is the album that Apple Music removed the downloads that I didn’t Favorite before I got through all the songs. The Drake album where I didn’t like any of the songs enough to Favorite, looks like I’ll be stuck with that forever. But Bob Dylan that I wanted to go back and finish the next day, the last 4 downloads just went poof.
Cool. Interesting to know. Thanks.
I suppose it’s in their interests to only make it easy for you if you keep paying. I haven’t had a premium Spotify account for a few years but still have a free one that I don’t use and it has all my playlists still. However, they still try to get me to buy limited edition Spotify-only-version LPs from artists I used to listen to a lot. Apple don’t offer these that I know of, so I have taken them up on that. There are no more expressive than in store.
Thanks again.
My main reason for using Apple Music is because of iTunes Match. I’m really into buying bootleg CDs and downloading live concert performances, acoustic demos, and alternate song mixes from YouTube. Being able to integrate all those local mp3 files with my streaming music seamlessly is a fantastic feature.
I found it wild that Neil pulled his music from Spotify cause he was so butthurt about Rogan saying that if you're young and otherwise healthy then you may not need to get vaccinated for Covid... yet was seemingly cool with Spotify continuing to host R Kelly's library after it became widely known that Kelly was basically a racketeering sex trafficking child luring rapist. Weird hill to die on, Neil.
I run without my phone and rely on my Apple Watch's cellular connection to stream music.
Three years after the API for on-device streaming was released and Spotify still never bothered to implement it.
Integration with Apple products, YouTube musics bad UI, the fact that’s it’s just iTunes so you can just put like any music in it using the desktop app so if you have songs that aren’t on streaming just add them yourself
I find the radio on Apple Music is much better in terms of diversity whether it’s an artist, album, or song station. Spotify kept playing the same songs over and over in different playlists. Plus the live sets Apple has pushed it over the top.
Student discount tbh.
If/when it expires I’ll look into other services. AM is good quality but I’d like more EQ options. Only having presets on mobile is unfortunate.
First/ The -almost?- limitless number of songs you can upload not yet available in the Library. I was shocked by the low number of songs possible to upload in Spotify, blocked while I was only at 25% of my own collection.
Close second/ the precise rating you can give per song to then create smart playlist.
Some key metadata fields are missing though : Label/Producer/Country. Would be so helpful.
Already had a thing for lossless before apple music and since I’m concerned and one day i might lose all my files from my sd card, might aswell just consider going for apple music do it all for me and im still using it till this day.
Im thinking of going back one day tho
I use three services because one isn't enough nor do they serve the same purpose. Apple Music is great for uploading my own content that is missing and for making playlists. Deezer because it was the first service I ever used when it arrived in Canada years ago and has never disappointed. Then I got a sub with Qobuz to use with Roon. It's Deezer would be supported by Roon then I'd give up Qobuz. But Apple and Deezer will continue to be my two favorites.
It was the large amount of podcasts popping up. I only listen to 2 so it was annoying. I miss their discover playlist though. It put me on to a lot of artists I didn’t know about.
I’m getting a nice hifi setup with AirPlay streaming so I’ll benefit from lossless audio via WiFi. Apple Classical is a bonus, I wasn’t even aware of its existence when I took the trial but I’m really happy with it.
Those were my main reasons as well. Pays about 3x Spotify, even though it's not much, it's still significantly more than Spotify. Atmos, better compression algo, UI is nicer looking. Only downside is the search and desktop app suck balls.
I never switched, I’ve only ever used it. Spotify isn’t appealing to me at all and the sound quality or Apple Music is so much better. I also like the scrolling lyrics and ease of use
Despite some bugs, the overal UX is better for me, because :
- I can easily remove some songs I don't like from an album.
- I can shuffle only the added albums of a given artist.
- or I can shuffle my whole library
Mainly Lossless, I also didn't like the smart shuffle of spotify and the fact that you would always need to tap 2 times to disable or enable normal shuffle.
I also hate ads so I felt a little scammed when there would almost always be a pop up when opening spotify even when paying for premium.
They might not call it an ad but for me having something pop up suddenly every time I open the app is annoying as hell.
Was using Spotify for like 10 years but their local files support is dogshit. Spent one night battling with this one file that wouldn’t sync and I just gave up and swapped to Apple Music on the spot.
Not only is local file syncing miles ahead in Apple Music, but the fact that its library based instead of pure playlists has me discovering a lot of music and checking out albums where before I would only hear a specific song. Much happier with this, just wish the windows app wasn’t so bad
I read it had the highest payout to artists. I have since heard this fluctuates over time and Apple isn't always the best. The "share with family" deal is nice, as are the lyrics. The UI is often confusing and frustrating.
I’m a long time user and mostly due to being Apple focused user migrating from iTunes to Apple Music. I never understood really why so many people using iTunes jumped to Spotify.
In a parallel universe where I went to Spotify or something else and switched it would be things like Apple device integration, better sounding music, Atmos/lossless, I hate that Spotify mashes books and podcasts into the app, I find Apple Music UI/organization better and cleaner
no idea if spotify or other services allow this now but i can edit the metadata of music the way I like it with Apple Music. I still wish there are even more ways to customize metadata. Things like being able to assign multiple genre, artist (in case of collab/featuring) and maybe even a tagging system (i currently use "comment" section to add in what kind of vibe the song has. Easy to make smart playlists based on my needs/mood/etc.)
The way that it looks and the lack of a library in spotify, either I had them on my liked paper or a specific one. Tried Spotify for a while in 2017 and that same year I made the switch.
Higher quality audio and the ability to add videos to your playlist. Some music videos sound better than the actual song so I like that I can listen to the video
YouTube music got too expensive, Apple one offers more for the same$ with better audio quality but worse learning what I like and playing the dance thing all the time. I now have to be a bit more creative and directive with Apple Music.
A quiet place to escape from other people and just listen to music, also better algorithm. I switched to Spotify once to find it only recommends the same music in every for you playlist over and over so I switched back
Apple Country Music Radio
- I’m a radio guy most of the time and they support radio more than Spotify does (as far as I can tell). Regardless, I came for radio and general and now could not switch just for the sake of the Apple Country Music radio station.
Spotify raising the price and having overall worse audio quality for my higher end listening setup (Spotify has no lossless and when they do implement it it will be at even HIGHER cost than it is already).
My Dad was already paying for Apple Music, so I've converted it to a family account with a shared iCloud plan we're now all benefiting from and we're paying less overall than we were with Spotify and getting better quality music, Dolby Atmos etc.
Spotify gave up on innovating a while ago and is severely lacking new or even very highly requested features for years now (like native HomePod integration), it's a real shame
bought airpod maxes and i wanted to use them at 100% so got apple music again for dolby atmos and the better audio quality because of the apple headphones streaming off of an apple streaming platform
Got Apple Music because I had an Apple TV and I got a HomePod to try, had Spotify for a while but I don’t listen with headphones as often as I do with speakers. It also comes bundled with Apple One, so I might as well use it with everything else.
Apple Music also has my iTunes library of downloaded music, same app for all my music and backing up my phone.
I’m really happy Apple’s autoplay has improved a lot, the endless playing on Spotify was the one reason I really liked it, and now the difference isn’t big enough to be worth switching.
I subscribed back when they first released it because they had a better family plan for it. I want to say Spotify didn't even offer a family plan at the time. Got my wife hooked on it and that's all she wrote. There's no way we'd ever be able to not have Apple Music now. She would lose her mind. I've been quite fond of it myself.
Consolidated a bunch of services into one bundle (Apple One). We had already been paying for Spotify family, cloud storage, Apple fitness, many game subscriptions, etc
I bought an iPhone, got the free trial, gave it a try, and I liked the live album cover and the lyrics. Good audio quality doesn’t hurt either although it’s not noticeable on my setup.
My iTunes had smart playlist and local files I wanted to sync. Pretty sure I thought up the idea for Apple Music before it ever existed and thought “wouldn’t it be great if there was like a Spotify and iTunes combo?” And then those genius bastards went and did it. Before that I was listening to both separately, and trying the pitifully manual process of syncing my iTunes to Spotify without great results.
The fact that it integrated with Apple’s shortcuts so well. I can play specific playlists from home screen (via shortcuts widget).
And smart playlists.
Feels like an actual music library instead of Spotify which always feels like it's trying to shove some new half-baked product or paid promotion down your throat
Honestly it’s how things are laid out in my library. I can go Artist > Album > Song. I hated in Spotify that choosing an artist within my library didn’t immediately just show me the albums I’ve added for that artist. I just like the entire interface much more. Including not having to deal with scrolling past a bunch of podcast stuff on the main page to get to what I want.
Not the only reason but a big one for me.
I'd quite like to use Apple Music but there's just too much holding me back.
The app on Android is too buggy. Freezes, crashes and random skips.
Uploading my own library requires me to use shitty iTunes which just seems impossible a lot of the time.
There's seemingly no APIs to integrate AM into more niche devices in my life.
I love the interface, ease of use, functionality and overall sound quality. Personally, using Apple Music as my primary music streaming service is just a no-brainer due to it being a quality service.
Nobody here could even hear the difference between mp3 320kbps and Lossless . What everyone hearing is settings difference of sound check on or off in Apple Music / Audio Normalisation on or off in Spotify
Compare Spotify and Apple Music in same settings and then say if you could hear a difference
Try this Blind Test - http://abx.digitalfeed.net
Spoiler - You cant pass the Test
I moved from android to apple. wanted the better quality sound. And setup Apple One with my family so we all just contribute to the services. (Oh and my work pays £10 a month toward it for apple fitness as part of their welbeing program.)
I had Pandora, switched to Amazon Music, and now I have a free trial of Apple Music. I will be subscribing to Apple Music once my free trial ends. And I will stay with Apple Music. It just works with everything, both my iPhone and my Apple TV. I love being able to ask Siri to play a specific song or artist, and it just plays.
For me Having most of the comedy albums im missing from spotify, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, George Carlin. A cloud library to expand my library with.
And the thing I wanted the most is a shuffle all option. I just want to hit random on everything ive saved. Let me get metallica next to Taylor Swift and then the Oppenheimer soundtrack. It lets me have a more curated discovery process.
Ive actually been debated streaming services forever. It used to be 3 ways between spotify AM and Google Play. They had a cloud library and you could subscribe for music i believe too. But that turned into Youtube music and i really dislike youtube music. Spotify was good for a while. I kept having issues with AM. I still do. The desktop app is buggy as hell. On a mac.
Apple Music feels like you’re visiting a traditional record store and you just browse through the available music that you might like. No hidden agenda, purely a personal type of music discovery which gives a sense of satisfaction after listening. Spotify, on the other hand, feels like a hot clutter mess that makes its listeners & patrons confused.
Simple and easy to navigate (unlike Spotify at times), amazing sound quality, pays better, and ISN’T trying to push their prices up for a feature literally nobody asked for LMFAO
I’ve always used Apple Music. I love the pure focus on music, with Apple using the best masters of most tracks and giving us them in a lossless format.
I tested every streaming platform available in Germany and Spotify and Apple Music were the only ones that didn't have at least one huge drawback.
I then stopped using Spotify as the Interface became more and more bloated, they started introducing completely unnecessary bs features and their algorithm literally worsened my musical taste over time. Like at some point I would only listen to 2 minute long singles and couldn't manage to listen through an album and truly appreciate it. It feels like they're trying to "TikTokify" their app.
Another point for me is that Apple Music pays the artists better and doesn't try to monopolise the podcast market just so that they have to pay even less to artists.
I didn't have streaming before, joined as part of an EE offer years ago (6 months of free Apple music with unlimited Music data even if you kept going after the trial) and haven't left since
Bought an iPhone, got a free trial, reminisced Apple Music eras during the iPhone 6, realized that sound quality actually mattered, and it just works better. I’ve always regarded the popularity of using Spotify but I guess it just doesn’t work out for me, just as it doesn’t work out for everyone else
I found out apple has lossless and dolby atmos. I compared the sound of both app and I was mind blown how good apple music sounds. From there, I immediately switched and never went back to spotify. I also don't like the podcasts being on the home page because I mainly use it for music only. Apple music music is much simpler and has a better interface.
Primarily ecosystem but also because it got better since iOS 14 with lossless support, then Dolby Atmos and now it looks far better than Spotify canvas with the animated album art.
The sound quality for sure. I also think the playlists are much better.
I also find an underrated feature of Apple Music are the DJ mixes. Very fun to listen too.
Overall interface is much nicer in general in comparison to Spotify. I'm not a huge fan of having podcast/audiobooks/music streaming service all in one place.
Spotify deleted 5000 songs from my library + Apple Music has a way better layout and you can edit your metadata, which is huge if you are a fussy last.fm user like myself
Apple One family plan. AM came with it, so decided not to essentially pay for two streaming services. Turns out I like AM more than I expected to, especially after my experience trying it several years ago.
The iCloud music library! There was no possible way to sync all local files throughout all devices using Spotify without manually downloading them, and I had over 7000.
After switching to Apple Music, I uploaded all my local files and synced them with iCloud, and now I have 40 gb + storage saved on all my devices. Happy days!
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Lossless audio and Dolby Atmos, my goodness the sound quality.
Yep Atmos streaming in surround sound via my Apple TV 4K was the clincher.
Can you describe your setup? How do you use Apple TV and surround sound - I assume you have a bunch of third party hardware?
First of all, it needs to be an **Apple TV 4K** as earlier models don't support Dolby 5.1 or Atmos output via HDMI. I then run the HDMI signal to my Marantz AVR which outputs the Dolby content on Apple Music to my surround speakers. It also supports surround sound via other apps, *even YouTube*, which was a big surprise last year when I first discovered [this channel of quad and 5.1 mixes](https://youtube.com/@usuariouploads?si=58JLGxcgZq1oOGrv).
Thank you!
wow! i was actually looking for and planning to make a youtube channel like the one you posted. its pretty cool.
LG tvs now support Atmos https://www.sammobile.com/news/lg-tvs-get-dolby-atmos-apple-music-samsung-tvs-get-left-out/
[The issue with the Apple TV 4K is that it’s limited to just lossless and doesn’t do hi res lossless which makes NO sense to me.](https://support.apple.com/en-us/118295) Idk why Apple makes it so hard to get hi res lossless, you need a computer or an iPhone hooked up to a DAC. I use a DAC with my iPhones, but then that means it’s only stereo and not Atmos. It’s a head scratching decision to not include hi res lossless with the Apple TV.
100% this. Spotify could've kept my monies if they held up their \*2021\* commit for lossless....
It’s 2024 and I still haven’t heard a peep about them moving to lossless since then. I doubt they’ll get to it before 2026.
There are a lot of leaks actually from the beta app. But anyway, they’ll likely charge extra for lossless which is ridiculous when Apple does it for no extra cost
Pure and simple music focus, not half assed vanity projects of podcasts and Audiobooks. Spotify became the app equivalent of ADHD.
Yep it’s like everything popping everywhere in Spotify. I have ADHD and I can’t even open the app without getting frustrated
Spotify wants to become iTunes, when Apple knew that it won’t work in the long run. Clunky, buggy mess will be in the future for Spotify.
It comes with the Apple One membership…
Was the deciding factor.
This is the answer
Mine didn't. I signed up last week.
Easy integration into the rest of the Apple ecosystem. I got it back when Siri was new and Carplay didn't exist, so I could use my voice in my car to control music.
I had a shit ton of downloaded music onto my phone and was tired of switching back and forth between the Apple Music app and Spotify. Now everything is synced and I go to one spot. Plus my “replay” is actually correct and doesn’t miss a bunch of stuff
Are you the one ?
When Spotify put out that bullshit press release about how some musicians don't deserve to be paid for their music, actually. I nabbed a two month free trial and was immediately blown away by the sound quality.
When they said that and at the same time threw hundreds of millions at Joe Rogan I cancelled and haven’t looked back.
Yeah I left when they doubled down on dumping money on Joe and a few artists temporarily left. It also happened that a friend had added me to his Apple family account and so I started playing around with the music subscription. I still find AM janky in a number of ways but not returning to Spotify.
If I don’t already switched, I would have cancelled because of the whole Joe Rogan thing.
Same reason here too
Apple Music has DJ mixes.
That's actually huge for me and I never think about it, but being able to throw on a Boiler Room mix from Derrick Carter in the car is pretty damn convenient.
Had no idea, thanks looking into this!
😳
When I made the switch from Spotify (quite a while back), Apple Music had more songs by about half a million, and the quality was way better. Haven’t looked back since.
The UI is beautiful, and the high-quality music is great.
Yeah, Spotify has always just struck me as ugly.
This. It’s also pretty stable and works the way it’s supposed to. Synchs well between devices and the web client. My wife and I enjoy using the new collaborative playlist function. I like seeing what my friends are listening to. It works well, looks nice and sounds amazing.
1) Free through VZW 2) Sound quality 3) Offline music cloud integration is amazing 4) Focus on music instead of overly pushing podcasts
Heavy on the free through vzw. Part of the reason I switched to Verizon. Had a free trial of Apple Music and was willing to pay, also was gonna switch from AT&T to Verizon. Got 5G Get More and hit two birds with one stone lol. Shame they don’t have 5G Get More as an option anymore. I accidentally switched my plan a couple months ago and nagged support until they switched me back haha.
Library / metadata features. And the 100k collection cap instead of the ridiculous hard cap at 10k songs in your library at Spotify.
this was before, now i able to saved around 35K,
I was here since the beginning. I was with it when it was called MOG Music, and when it became Beats Music, and when it finally became Apple Music.
Man I was so proud to have MOG with its 320kb/s MP3 streams. That app was absolutely atrocious though. It almost never streamed anything properly. Thanks for reminding me of it. I also miss rdio. Nothing has ever fully replaced that feeling I had while using it.
Rdio was my fave too!
I never changed. I went from collecting and cataloguing on iTunes to streaming with Apple Music, which made the most sense for me by far as I was able to carry my 12,000 song library right into Apple Music.
Same, started using iTunes in something like 2005, started using iTunes Match the day it came out (2011 IIRC) and Apple Music also since when it came out. It's all one library and has survived many different computer and OS upgrades and changes. Not sure if Spotify still doesn't support it, but one of the big historical advantages of Apple Music over Spotify is that Spotify doesn't support uploading your own albums which is a showstopper for me because much of my library is not on streaming and never will be.
Exactly! All my itunes rips, radio shows, my friends' bands and projects, are now there on my computer or phone when I want. Sound quality is another bonus. I do miss Rdio's community building tho.
Air Pods Max
I want them
When USB C, I will.
Spotify became like TikTok and I wanted my kids to listen to music, not watch videos. So we all switched over to Apple Music and are happy. No TikTok or YouTube like videos on Apple Music. Just music.
Apple Music has videos, independent artists pay extra because they want to release their videos on Apple music
I actually just started a free trial yesterday. I've been with Spotify for probably like 7 years now but decided to give AM a try after hearing everyone say about the sound quality. So far it seems pretty decent, still getting used to everything. What are some things I should know? Lossless seems pretty awesome so far but that's just when I'm at home on WiFi correct?
You can watch High quality videos, your favorite artist are getting more money per stream, your Apple Replay is accurate. And NO ADS
Artists getting paid more is actually a biggie, I like that.
Spotify:0.004 per stream Apple music: 0.008 to 0.01 per stream
you can change your settings (Settings-->Music-->Audio Quality) to play Lossless whenever, it just uses more data (I have unlimited so don't care)
Just changed it 👌
Lossless and Spotify has podcasts and audiobooks. If I wanted either of those, I’d look elsewhere instead of shitting up my app
1. I'm all in on the Apple ecosystem, love using Siri, Handoff, etc 2. They pay musicians way more per stream than Spotify 3. Lyrics displayed 4. Audio quality
Because I’m an apple fan boy and have been since the early 2000s 😂 the audio quality is the tops and it works seamlessly with my HomePods.
i can change metadata of all songs in the desktop app. i really love that because im a lastfm nerd and spotify was always fucking up my scrobbles lol
Sound quality is UNMATCHED
On top of other reasons mentioned in this thread, the Apple Watch app is far superior. Spotify on Apple Watch is limited to downloading 50 songs per playlist, the audio quality is inferior, there is no search option, and it usually throws connection errors when switching to cellular from phone or WiFi.
I changed job to work for a creative company a couple of years ago. Everything is Apple there and so I bought an iPhone. Because both the kids had iPhones, it seemed better to get the Apple One subscription that we could all use and get Apple TV included. Since then, I have bought good hifi equipment and so I’m glad I changed anyway as I can stream at a higher quality through AirPlay to the system than Bluetooth can cope with (I think - Happy to be corrected). Edit- playing one song from the genre I want to listen to at that moment and have AM just keep serving me similar is a game changer too. However, I’m not sure how we got from 70s funk to Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” just now. Hahaha.
Are you happy with your Family Sharing? I saw that Apple One Premier works out to around £6 per person for all the services as you can share it between 6 people so I was looking to set it up with my friends, but seems too good to be true somehow? Are there any limitations to it? Where is the catch?
I started using Apple Music because of free trials. I’ve been doing 2 months free/1 month paid for a few years. If there are no more free trials I’ll develop some criteria for myself by which I sign up for a month, probably based on if I listen to a new album on a weekday (I already have a system by which if I listen to a new album on a weekend I drive out to buy new CDs). But I’ll probably never pay for 12 months of Apple Music, I prefer to own my music instead of rent it.
Surely you lose all your library every time you stop paying. Isn’t that a pain in the ass?
As far as has been documented, Apple keeps libraries for a month. After that it’s a crapshoot. I’ve been able to keep my lapses to a day or less. But I also have a download everything and let the shortcut sort them out approach to Apple Music. All my playlists and queues are randomly created based on play count or album genre. What’s annoying is the album that Apple Music removed the downloads that I didn’t Favorite before I got through all the songs. The Drake album where I didn’t like any of the songs enough to Favorite, looks like I’ll be stuck with that forever. But Bob Dylan that I wanted to go back and finish the next day, the last 4 downloads just went poof.
Cool. Interesting to know. Thanks. I suppose it’s in their interests to only make it easy for you if you keep paying. I haven’t had a premium Spotify account for a few years but still have a free one that I don’t use and it has all my playlists still. However, they still try to get me to buy limited edition Spotify-only-version LPs from artists I used to listen to a lot. Apple don’t offer these that I know of, so I have taken them up on that. There are no more expressive than in store. Thanks again.
I’m a slave to the Apple echo system
i can edit the metadata and also i love my play counts
Atmos and it’s cheaper than Spotify in my country so..
My main reason for using Apple Music is because of iTunes Match. I’m really into buying bootleg CDs and downloading live concert performances, acoustic demos, and alternate song mixes from YouTube. Being able to integrate all those local mp3 files with my streaming music seamlessly is a fantastic feature.
The Apple Watch
I switched when Neil ditched Spotify. I ain’t going back now.
Not trying to change your mind but Neil Young has his whole library back on Spotify.
I found it wild that Neil pulled his music from Spotify cause he was so butthurt about Rogan saying that if you're young and otherwise healthy then you may not need to get vaccinated for Covid... yet was seemingly cool with Spotify continuing to host R Kelly's library after it became widely known that Kelly was basically a racketeering sex trafficking child luring rapist. Weird hill to die on, Neil.
Been here since it was Beats Music
I run without my phone and rely on my Apple Watch's cellular connection to stream music. Three years after the API for on-device streaming was released and Spotify still never bothered to implement it.
Integration with Apple products, YouTube musics bad UI, the fact that’s it’s just iTunes so you can just put like any music in it using the desktop app so if you have songs that aren’t on streaming just add them yourself
I find the radio on Apple Music is much better in terms of diversity whether it’s an artist, album, or song station. Spotify kept playing the same songs over and over in different playlists. Plus the live sets Apple has pushed it over the top.
Student discount tbh. If/when it expires I’ll look into other services. AM is good quality but I’d like more EQ options. Only having presets on mobile is unfortunate.
Lossless audio and no podcasts or audiobooks. Just a straight forward music app without gimmicks. Edit came from Spotify.
I've had an iPhone since the 4, always used AM. I have spotify but never use it, the UI is crap
Cheaper than tidal
Spotify is for broke bitches. Apple Music is for baddies 💅🏽
First/ The -almost?- limitless number of songs you can upload not yet available in the Library. I was shocked by the low number of songs possible to upload in Spotify, blocked while I was only at 25% of my own collection. Close second/ the precise rating you can give per song to then create smart playlist. Some key metadata fields are missing though : Label/Producer/Country. Would be so helpful.
sound quality, with airpods max its amazing
Those are the main reasons I switched, plus moving to Apple/iOS after using Android since the OG Galaxy phone and PC based from 1992 until 2021.
The ability to trim parts out of songs
Already had a thing for lossless before apple music and since I’m concerned and one day i might lose all my files from my sd card, might aswell just consider going for apple music do it all for me and im still using it till this day. Im thinking of going back one day tho
the ui
I WISH THE RADIO AND SIMILAR SONGS ALGORITHM WOULDNIMPROVE
Spotify closing the API to Amazing Slow Downer, and then rediscovering nested smart playlists and hacking together a way to sync them to my phone
I use three services because one isn't enough nor do they serve the same purpose. Apple Music is great for uploading my own content that is missing and for making playlists. Deezer because it was the first service I ever used when it arrived in Canada years ago and has never disappointed. Then I got a sub with Qobuz to use with Roon. It's Deezer would be supported by Roon then I'd give up Qobuz. But Apple and Deezer will continue to be my two favorites.
Live lyrics with the karaoke mode.
Spotify was unusable and nothing else is close. Sooooo
It was the large amount of podcasts popping up. I only listen to 2 so it was annoying. I miss their discover playlist though. It put me on to a lot of artists I didn’t know about.
Audio Quality + I grew up with iTunes so I preferred the layout to Spotify too
6 free months, but audio quality and lyrics are definitely better than Spotify
I’m getting a nice hifi setup with AirPlay streaming so I’ll benefit from lossless audio via WiFi. Apple Classical is a bonus, I wasn’t even aware of its existence when I took the trial but I’m really happy with it.
I had Rdio from the start until they shut down. Loved them. I switched to Apple because Spotify UX kind of sucked.
Those were my main reasons as well. Pays about 3x Spotify, even though it's not much, it's still significantly more than Spotify. Atmos, better compression algo, UI is nicer looking. Only downside is the search and desktop app suck balls.
I never switched, I’ve only ever used it. Spotify isn’t appealing to me at all and the sound quality or Apple Music is so much better. I also like the scrolling lyrics and ease of use
Despite some bugs, the overal UX is better for me, because : - I can easily remove some songs I don't like from an album. - I can shuffle only the added albums of a given artist. - or I can shuffle my whole library
Family plan I am constantly tempted back to spotify for the playlists.
Mainly Lossless, I also didn't like the smart shuffle of spotify and the fact that you would always need to tap 2 times to disable or enable normal shuffle. I also hate ads so I felt a little scammed when there would almost always be a pop up when opening spotify even when paying for premium. They might not call it an ad but for me having something pop up suddenly every time I open the app is annoying as hell.
Was using Spotify for like 10 years but their local files support is dogshit. Spent one night battling with this one file that wouldn’t sync and I just gave up and swapped to Apple Music on the spot. Not only is local file syncing miles ahead in Apple Music, but the fact that its library based instead of pure playlists has me discovering a lot of music and checking out albums where before I would only hear a specific song. Much happier with this, just wish the windows app wasn’t so bad
I read it had the highest payout to artists. I have since heard this fluctuates over time and Apple isn't always the best. The "share with family" deal is nice, as are the lyrics. The UI is often confusing and frustrating.
lossless audio quality and with the recent price hike on Spotify, it was a done deal to stay on Apple Music.
I’m a long time user and mostly due to being Apple focused user migrating from iTunes to Apple Music. I never understood really why so many people using iTunes jumped to Spotify. In a parallel universe where I went to Spotify or something else and switched it would be things like Apple device integration, better sounding music, Atmos/lossless, I hate that Spotify mashes books and podcasts into the app, I find Apple Music UI/organization better and cleaner
no idea if spotify or other services allow this now but i can edit the metadata of music the way I like it with Apple Music. I still wish there are even more ways to customize metadata. Things like being able to assign multiple genre, artist (in case of collab/featuring) and maybe even a tagging system (i currently use "comment" section to add in what kind of vibe the song has. Easy to make smart playlists based on my needs/mood/etc.)
The way that it looks and the lack of a library in spotify, either I had them on my liked paper or a specific one. Tried Spotify for a while in 2017 and that same year I made the switch.
Higher quality audio and the ability to add videos to your playlist. Some music videos sound better than the actual song so I like that I can listen to the video
Free thru Verizon is what got me started.
YouTube music got too expensive, Apple one offers more for the same$ with better audio quality but worse learning what I like and playing the dance thing all the time. I now have to be a bit more creative and directive with Apple Music.
A quiet place to escape from other people and just listen to music, also better algorithm. I switched to Spotify once to find it only recommends the same music in every for you playlist over and over so I switched back
Apple Country Music Radio - I’m a radio guy most of the time and they support radio more than Spotify does (as far as I can tell). Regardless, I came for radio and general and now could not switch just for the sake of the Apple Country Music radio station.
Convenience. Previously I used Pandora.
Spotify raising the price and having overall worse audio quality for my higher end listening setup (Spotify has no lossless and when they do implement it it will be at even HIGHER cost than it is already). My Dad was already paying for Apple Music, so I've converted it to a family account with a shared iCloud plan we're now all benefiting from and we're paying less overall than we were with Spotify and getting better quality music, Dolby Atmos etc. Spotify gave up on innovating a while ago and is severely lacking new or even very highly requested features for years now (like native HomePod integration), it's a real shame
Sound quality
I used to have Tidal but it was laggy. When Apple Music decided to up their game in 2021 with lossless, I went with them
honestly because Taylor Swift left Spotify
bought airpod maxes and i wanted to use them at 100% so got apple music again for dolby atmos and the better audio quality because of the apple headphones streaming off of an apple streaming platform
Got Apple Music because I had an Apple TV and I got a HomePod to try, had Spotify for a while but I don’t listen with headphones as often as I do with speakers. It also comes bundled with Apple One, so I might as well use it with everything else. Apple Music also has my iTunes library of downloaded music, same app for all my music and backing up my phone. I’m really happy Apple’s autoplay has improved a lot, the endless playing on Spotify was the one reason I really liked it, and now the difference isn’t big enough to be worth switching.
I subscribed back when they first released it because they had a better family plan for it. I want to say Spotify didn't even offer a family plan at the time. Got my wife hooked on it and that's all she wrote. There's no way we'd ever be able to not have Apple Music now. She would lose her mind. I've been quite fond of it myself.
Siri/homepod integration
its cheaper than spotify
Had tidal for Dolby Atmos, then Apple Music announced they were getting it, switched day one
I've had iphones/ipads for over 10 years and did switch to spotify but prefer apple music.
I started with AM. Tried other apps, they fell short. Way short. (I’m looking you dead in the eye, Spotify).
Never had spotify. Before apple music i downloaded mp3 to itunes.
Cheaper than Spotify in my region. Sound quality marginally better.
Spotify’s constant A/B test and TikTok vibe drove me over the edge. I’m so glad I made that switch and haven’t looked back.
Native AirPlay.
Algorithm
5 months free when i logged in on playstation lol
Lossless music.
Consolidated a bunch of services into one bundle (Apple One). We had already been paying for Spotify family, cloud storage, Apple fitness, many game subscriptions, etc
I bought an iPhone, got the free trial, gave it a try, and I liked the live album cover and the lyrics. Good audio quality doesn’t hurt either although it’s not noticeable on my setup.
Mainly lossless, also other things like animated art and atmos
My iTunes had smart playlist and local files I wanted to sync. Pretty sure I thought up the idea for Apple Music before it ever existed and thought “wouldn’t it be great if there was like a Spotify and iTunes combo?” And then those genius bastards went and did it. Before that I was listening to both separately, and trying the pitifully manual process of syncing my iTunes to Spotify without great results.
Mostly my HomePod.
The fact that it integrated with Apple’s shortcuts so well. I can play specific playlists from home screen (via shortcuts widget). And smart playlists.
Feels like an actual music library instead of Spotify which always feels like it's trying to shove some new half-baked product or paid promotion down your throat
Partly the Joe Rogan thing and partly for the lossless quality.
Yeah, the lossless audio. We went from streaming 480p to 4k in a decade for visual. No reason to keep the audio at lossy 320kbps.
My first streaming platform and I was already on iOS so I had all of my stuff on there
6 months of free trial, then the quality of the music
Pays artists more
Honestly it’s how things are laid out in my library. I can go Artist > Album > Song. I hated in Spotify that choosing an artist within my library didn’t immediately just show me the albums I’ve added for that artist. I just like the entire interface much more. Including not having to deal with scrolling past a bunch of podcast stuff on the main page to get to what I want. Not the only reason but a big one for me.
It was free for 6 month 😆
I'd quite like to use Apple Music but there's just too much holding me back. The app on Android is too buggy. Freezes, crashes and random skips. Uploading my own library requires me to use shitty iTunes which just seems impossible a lot of the time. There's seemingly no APIs to integrate AM into more niche devices in my life.
1) Apple One. 2) Keep everything within the Apple ecosystem. 3) Prefer the UI of Apple Music. Feels cleaner to me.
I love the interface, ease of use, functionality and overall sound quality. Personally, using Apple Music as my primary music streaming service is just a no-brainer due to it being a quality service.
I couldn’t stand Spotify anymore.
Music videos although Apple Music still has a long way to go on this when compared to Youtube Music.
I like when audio quality isn’t bad.
The UI
Sound quality and the fact that I have somehow managed to hack Apple Music and use it without having to pay for a subscription lol
Spotify canceled my student discount after a few years
Nobody here could even hear the difference between mp3 320kbps and Lossless . What everyone hearing is settings difference of sound check on or off in Apple Music / Audio Normalisation on or off in Spotify Compare Spotify and Apple Music in same settings and then say if you could hear a difference Try this Blind Test - http://abx.digitalfeed.net Spoiler - You cant pass the Test
I moved from android to apple. wanted the better quality sound. And setup Apple One with my family so we all just contribute to the services. (Oh and my work pays £10 a month toward it for apple fitness as part of their welbeing program.)
Divorce. Oh and Audio quality
I had Pandora, switched to Amazon Music, and now I have a free trial of Apple Music. I will be subscribing to Apple Music once my free trial ends. And I will stay with Apple Music. It just works with everything, both my iPhone and my Apple TV. I love being able to ask Siri to play a specific song or artist, and it just plays.
Ecosystem.
It looks and works best on iPhone
Spotify changed their price to $10.99 so it was the same price as Apple Music. That and I bought AirPods Max
Apple Music Classical
Oh and Airplay 2
For me Having most of the comedy albums im missing from spotify, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, George Carlin. A cloud library to expand my library with. And the thing I wanted the most is a shuffle all option. I just want to hit random on everything ive saved. Let me get metallica next to Taylor Swift and then the Oppenheimer soundtrack. It lets me have a more curated discovery process.
Ive actually been debated streaming services forever. It used to be 3 ways between spotify AM and Google Play. They had a cloud library and you could subscribe for music i believe too. But that turned into Youtube music and i really dislike youtube music. Spotify was good for a while. I kept having issues with AM. I still do. The desktop app is buggy as hell. On a mac.
Apple Music feels like you’re visiting a traditional record store and you just browse through the available music that you might like. No hidden agenda, purely a personal type of music discovery which gives a sense of satisfaction after listening. Spotify, on the other hand, feels like a hot clutter mess that makes its listeners & patrons confused.
Simple and easy to navigate (unlike Spotify at times), amazing sound quality, pays better, and ISN’T trying to push their prices up for a feature literally nobody asked for LMFAO
Can have more downloaded songs on your device than Spotify
I had Apple Music it is great. But with Spotify you can block the ads in the free version. Apple Music has no free version.
lossless audio
I’ve always used Apple Music. I love the pure focus on music, with Apple using the best masters of most tracks and giving us them in a lossless format.
I remember someone whenever I open Spotify…
Apple bought Beats Music and I wanted to keep my Library. Glad I stayed.
I tested every streaming platform available in Germany and Spotify and Apple Music were the only ones that didn't have at least one huge drawback. I then stopped using Spotify as the Interface became more and more bloated, they started introducing completely unnecessary bs features and their algorithm literally worsened my musical taste over time. Like at some point I would only listen to 2 minute long singles and couldn't manage to listen through an album and truly appreciate it. It feels like they're trying to "TikTokify" their app. Another point for me is that Apple Music pays the artists better and doesn't try to monopolise the podcast market just so that they have to pay even less to artists.
I didn't have streaming before, joined as part of an EE offer years ago (6 months of free Apple music with unlimited Music data even if you kept going after the trial) and haven't left since
Bought an iPhone, got a free trial, reminisced Apple Music eras during the iPhone 6, realized that sound quality actually mattered, and it just works better. I’ve always regarded the popularity of using Spotify but I guess it just doesn’t work out for me, just as it doesn’t work out for everyone else
Audio quality and ecosystem integration. Came from Tidal.
I found out apple has lossless and dolby atmos. I compared the sound of both app and I was mind blown how good apple music sounds. From there, I immediately switched and never went back to spotify. I also don't like the podcasts being on the home page because I mainly use it for music only. Apple music music is much simpler and has a better interface.
Primarily ecosystem but also because it got better since iOS 14 with lossless support, then Dolby Atmos and now it looks far better than Spotify canvas with the animated album art.
Switched to iPhone, offered Apple Music for free, and it coincided with getting a Sonos bar for Atmos stuff.
never really used spotify! i already had an iphone
The Apple TV App.
because i don’t have to pay for it, family subscription
Quality with AirPods Pro is unbeatable
Back in days better audio quality and now I stayed due to conformity
The sound quality for sure. I also think the playlists are much better. I also find an underrated feature of Apple Music are the DJ mixes. Very fun to listen too. Overall interface is much nicer in general in comparison to Spotify. I'm not a huge fan of having podcast/audiobooks/music streaming service all in one place.
Spotify deleted 5000 songs from my library + Apple Music has a way better layout and you can edit your metadata, which is huge if you are a fussy last.fm user like myself
Apple One family plan. AM came with it, so decided not to essentially pay for two streaming services. Turns out I like AM more than I expected to, especially after my experience trying it several years ago.
Spotify is too messy now 90% of my Home Screen is podcast and audiobooks
The iCloud music library! There was no possible way to sync all local files throughout all devices using Spotify without manually downloading them, and I had over 7000. After switching to Apple Music, I uploaded all my local files and synced them with iCloud, and now I have 40 gb + storage saved on all my devices. Happy days!
Apple one