Why Apple Music?

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0:00 Intro
1:04 Why not Qobuz? (Because people are *still* asking)
3:37 Reason #1
5:01 Reason #2
7:04 Reason #3
8:20 Reason #4

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[nevatear]

And here we are another year has gone by and we still have nothing but a dial tone from Spotify for a HiFi tier. Wow!

[budgieishere]

The DJ Mixes has been a terrific addition and I appreciate being able to add tracks from the middle of those mixes out to another playlist

[christopherviers]

Reporting from Taiwan... where Tidal is not available... Apple Music comes in at 150NT = $5.00 US dollars... Great video...!!! I subscribe to Apple Music out of Hi-Res necessity and Spotify to discover new music, etc. I grew up in the 50's and 60's when AM radio was the thing, so this streaming scene never ceases to blow my mind...!!!

[m_DT]

Similar for us too. Qobuz is my main service, and my wife and I also have Apple Music. She solely uses Apple Music and I use it for my car’s CarPlay and to fill in the gaps that are in the Qobuz library. But when I’m in front of my system, if I’m not playing CDs or LPs, it’s mainly Qobuz via Roon.

[MetalJesusRocks]

So Apple Music…it just works. 👍 Makes sense. That’s kinda Apple’s thing. Funny how so many other tech companies just don’t get that.

[simob]

I basically stopped paying subscriptions last year I was blown away by how much it actually adds up, iTunes, Spotify and all the rest, I mainly get CD, Vinyl now. I rather own my own music and collect if I want to spend extra and get a special edition or coloured vinyl I can and it worth it to me.

[yorkyoh]

What a good, thorough explanation. Thank you! (So I know even better, why I love Qobuz, but still stick to Apple, especially since Classical, which is really, really great!)

[GD-thgu]

Don’t know if you will read this, absolutely love your informative and insightful reviews. Can you please do a tour of your record collection, I am sure I am not your only viewer that appreciates your taste in music and have discovered new artists from the small snippets we occasionally hear or covers flashed on screen

[ansan]

Another good reason is the cloud upload for songs not in my region.Better than Spotify where the songs have to be on your device.

[joshi-toshi]

thank you for mentioning the DJ mixes! their catalog keeps increasing which is incredibly impressive. they also have live recordings of DJ sets from current and previous electronic music festivals as well, which is really great too if you like keeping up with that stuff. now if only they could get the entirety of the Global Underground / Renaissance / old Ministry of Sound mixes on there too! oh and also Northern Exposure by Digweed and Sasha.

[GrindCityGuitars]

I subscribe to both Apple and Tidal, for largely the same reasons as John describes in the video. I am fortunate to receive discounts on both, as I work in education. Each runs me $5 per month, with the bonus that Apple Music includes the TV+ streaming service. So, I essentially pay the cost of one streaming service for two music services and a streaming video service. Not bad. Current use case is Apple Music for multi-room music via HomePod, CarPlay use, and syncing music to my Apple Watch for exercise. I use Tidal connect to deliver FLAC files directly to my streamer and DAC in my two-channel system.

[bruffyb]

I use Amazon music, it has the digital versions of vinyl I've already bought and hi res files once auto is selected. Love it.

[dawaynecleckley]

Question: I've never heard you talk about Amazon Music HD. Why? Is it not a great service (streaming quality/library)? Or is it not available where you are?

[Splendrous]

Thank you for sharing Reason I have been a massive fan of ALL of those mix outlets for many years and have used SoundCloud to listen to them. This is so cool.

Huge fan. Thank you for all the wonderful content.

[budgetaudiophilelife-long]

🤗AS ALWAYS, THANKS JOHN, FOR ENLIGHTENING US 🧐 ON THE DIFFERENT STREAMING SERVICES 💚💚💚

[thetakeout]

Great Video John. Bring on Apple Connect! I agree with almost all that you said in this video. Streaming is both convenient and absolutely frustrating if you value quality and simplicity.

[DaveInLAS]

I’m in the US & just switched to an Individual plan on Apple for $10.99/month. Top notch job on on your productions 🙌🏼👏🏼🎯

[nickyvanoort]

Thank you so much for this video! I couldn't get ROON to work without it cutting out from time to time running on Ubuntu.

[andreaswoehler]

Absolutely agree John. Apple for me has the best library and UI. But I really like Tidal Connect and MQA. Tomorrow I‘ll get an HDMI extractor, hoping to get bit perfect out fo the Apple TV 4K, as the TV is upsampling everthing to 48 khz. I love navigating Apple Music on the Apple TV 4K over the big TV Screen.Great video, kepp going! 😊

[sultantoure]

10.99€ in France 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷. Thank you and take care!!!