Apple Music has more filters that I don’t use. Libraryīoth AM and Spotify are fine at library browsing. But those AirPods Pro allow me to listen to some songs in Spatial Audio with AM, which, although it’s not a big factor, I do like and leave enabled for those specially mixed songs.
I listen to music almost always through AirPods Pro, so as long as it sounds good enough to me, which it does with both services, this stuff matters little to me. Dolby Atmos-enabled Music with AM, where I have HiRes Lossless (ALAC up to 24-bit/192 kHz) enabled makes a noticeable difference compared to what Spotify calls “very high” quality, which in reality is AAC 256kbit/s (not very high quality). AudioĪM (Apple Music) wins in audio, as in how much my ears like the sound. But not before I flippantly suggest that Apple and Spotify are colluding to make their (music streaming) services suck in uniquely different ways to get me to pay for both of them.īelow you should assume I’m talking about mobile software exclusively if a detail I mention isn’t correct about a desktop counterpart. All anyone cares about is UX (user experience), right? That’s a bit vague, so I’ll get more specific. Yes, that’s a slight hyperbole and no, I don’t care to elaborate more than Amazon Music Unlimited, SoundCloud whatever the fuck, and YouTube Music are jokes and I primarily listen to music through AirPods Pro so Tidal’s weird UI and inferable drawbacks because of its relative obscurity outweigh any marginal sound quality benefits over Bluetooth. I’ll only be comparing Apple Music and Spotify because they’re the only viable options for me. More recently, Spotify has managed to keep me just happy enough with the service not to jump ship, but after shopping around for a few days, back and forth over the railing. Apple Music debates with whoever dared to engage. For the better part of that time, I was a (cringely) die-hard Spotify user who would eagerly participate in Spotify vs. I’ve been a Spotify user for half a decade, give or take. Nothing but peace love for the builders of criticized software, who are talented people that are good at their jobs. The state of music streaming services in 2022
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