Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

Obviously just my opinion, but Apple Music is the superior product. Beats1 and the interviews/artist-hosted shows make it worth the price when comparing to Spotify.

 

I can never see myself using Apple Music, at least until they sort out their horrid UI.

 

I can't stand Spotify's UI so I guess this is fairly subjective.

 

I love Apple Music. If they want to fully take over spotify, I think they need to figure out a way to improve the I guess "social media" aspects of it? My friends who prefer it to Apple Music complain that it's not as easy to share playlists and that Spotify is better at putting playlists together and things like that.

 

Agree. Spotify has the social element down, and more partnerships. Apple has somewhat copied what Rdio did, where you can now see your friends' faces over albums/songs they've listened to, but there's not a real social feed which would be more helpful.

Aside from that, some dating apps even allow you to link your Spotify playlists/top artists to your profile, so I can't do that.

 

I use Spotify myself - I'm not really aware of the key differences that would sway a person one way or the other.

 

Yea that was the other thing I was thinking is Spotify has way more places you can link to, but I figure if Apple Music ends up bigger, that stuff will all come.

 

Album exclusives, for one. Beats1. But those are just the ones swaying me, not the same for everyone, obviously.

 

Maybe things have changed since I last checked out Apple Music. I'll try to check it out tonight. But moving all my playlists over after 3.5 years on Spotify would be a nightmare.

 

My god, yeah, that would suck. However it looks like there's services for that (your comment inspired me to Google it.)

STAMP - Move Spotify, Google Music playlists to Apple Music and others for free!

EDIT: here's another: Houdini Playlist Transfer on the App Store

 

I feel like Spotify's algorithm is much better. Way better.

 

What about Tidal, though? Jay Z has something cookin', right?........RIGHT?!

 

Thanks for this!

 

I use Stamp to make the playlists on chorus for Spotify. I make it in AM first and use that to transfer it over. It works great.

 

I'm not very articulate at times so I apologize if I don't get across my thought right, but it's interesting to me that the "verb product" is being overtaken. Like, when people refer to streaming in general, I often hear Spotify as the first name.

But I do like Apple Music a lot more and think it's more intuitive to my streaming desires so it does make sense, it's just interesting in a way like if one day we found out Vimeo is overtaking YouTube (obviously a more extreme example).

 

Spotify has a better Discover section, but overall I like Apple Music

 

Apple Music is very easily my favorite streaming service. But, I also never use playlists and I spend my time on a music forum so I never really need the “discovery” aspect

 

I used Spotify for over a year and just recently switched to Apple Music. I don't regret my decision at all. The that I consume music may different than most people though. I generally just find what I want to listen to on Apple Music, save/download it to my phone, then listen to it from the Library tab when I open the app. I don't do a lot of searching or exploring through it. I think Apple Music has Spotify beat when it's coming to a Library interface and accessing music stored on your phone, but Spotify's search function feels better. Just seems to come down to preference.

 

Apple Music is great. I can’t imagine using any other service

 

Completely agree. I wish more artists published playlists on Apple Music like they do on Spotify.

 

Hard to beat Hulu and Spotify for $5 as a student tho.
I bought my first iPhone last year and tried Apple Music. After two months I went back. I personally only found one friend that uses Apple Music everyone else I spoke to told me they use Spotify or YouTube. Love being on Spotify and seeing friends listening to music I had no idea they knew about. Also Spotify runs more smoothly on pc than Apple Music but no I’ll assume it probably runs great on Mac.

~2 cents

 

Funny enough half the reason I use Apple Music is so people AREN'T constantly seeing what I'm listening to hahaha

It's so much nicer being able to avoid dumb arguments about arbitrary taste

But for people who are more social about general music taste I'm sure it's better for getting recs and the like

 

I tried Apple Music for the free month or whatever, really didn't like it, back on Spotify.

 

Agreed. I used to work for Apple, and you'd be surprised how overwhelmingly people didn't use Apple Music.