Spotify vs Apple Music: 2 Years Later

It's been 2 years since I switched from Apple Music to Spotify, and I found plenty of upsides and downsides. Also, where does YouTube Music play into all this?

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[BosuDX]

The better music quality of Apple Music, plus the fact that Spotify pays their artists the least out of all the major platforms pushed me to Apple Music as my go to

[FilipeAbreu]

I use Spotify for many years now and I have the say, discovery has gotten worse with time. At least for me, artists can pay their way “into” your playlists and recommendations. Spotify is still better than all the other platforms (at least for me) but it could be better and it’s not from lack of feedback from users

[paolochicco]

Am I the only one using YouTube Music? With a YouTube subscription, it's the best solution

[NN]

Funnily enough, I’m actually thinking about moving away from Spotify to Apple Music. It mostly just comes down to the price of the Family plans of each service (Apple Music’s Family plan is noticeably cheaper in Canada compared to Spotify now) & features (we don’t really use the extra bloat like Podcasts & Audiobooks whereas I at the very least would make use of Atmos & Lossless audio). Even the discovery aspect isn’t that important to me as I mostly just listen to the same rotation of songs.

[numberand]

I dont want to go looking for all 10k songs again

[MylesInfocus]

I find that Apple Music has a bigger library of Japanese music over Spotify, especially with smaller artists.

[thetryhardgamer]

Personally, I prefer Spotify because of how well connected and synced between my devices also I love how the interface is laid out.

[davidRios]

I use Apple Music because their discovery is focused on albums rather than playlists, that being said, they curated music pages are really good, I visit Electronic one a lot, and noticed that depending on what you listen is different for each person, I listen a lot of left-field house and techno, other friend EDM, I get new Aphex Twin, Floating Points, Burial new releases in there, while my fiend get other totally different recommendations . I use the iCloud integration a lot, have a lot of albums not available on streaming , suddenly my uploaded album becomes available in all my devices for streaming .

[Aether-Entropy]

I'm still syncing my mp3s to my iphone via cable. Free > Subscription

[Tomiply]

13:09 Nearly two years later? My man, that's nearly four years.

[LeeTuaty]

I personally prefer Apple Music and Youtube music over Spotify.

[ThisMarv]

6:38 fun fact, Spotify wrapped is so popular even Google Photos now has wrapped

[Nooseance]

Spotify does a great job with niche content discovery IMO. If I’m looking for a specific sound, it usually shows me a mix of artists from big names to ones with as few as 10 monthly listeners. That’s what keeps me using it, the discovery aspect. YouTube Music tends to stick to popular artists in my experience, whether it’s official or unofficial releases. I usually have to dig deeper to find hidden gems there, but with Spotify, it’s just a few clicks, and I’ve found a new artist. I feel like I have what i want and need with Spotify so i don't personally have a reason to try apple music.

[JReybabay]

14:30 I use YouTube Music because I have a premium account. The only thing that drives me insane is when I am listening to music in my liked playlist it auto refreshes to the top of the playlist about 30 seconds into the song, so if I wanna switch songs that are near that one on the playlist, I have to scroll all the way back down through the playlist every single time I want to pick a song rather than it just staying at the position I was already at

[Jodeceii]

I use both Spotify & Apple Music equally.

I love Spotify for their fluid connectivity when i’m arround the house or at a friend’s house, simply pull up the app and I can join/start a jam and I can easily control what’s being played which ever device it’s playing from - something Apple Music severely lacks at current despite having Air Play.

Apple Music I use when i’m travelling or at the office and listening through headphones/Airpods - the sound quality with lossless audio and dolby atmos is incredible, it helps that i’m very fluid with what I listen to so I find switching between services very easy even with different genres being played

[jergalvan]

apple music, in my experience, has better recommendations once u start listening for a month or 2. you just need to give it time bc it doesnt crowdsource ike spotify. it gives more personal recommendations with just a slight mix of the heavily mainstream. gives me a better balance of popular and more specific music taste.

[cesarvarela]

The only reason I use YouTube Music is because it is included with the YouTube premium subscription. If it wasn’t it would do two things. It would make YouTube premium cheaper and it would allow me to use Apple Music.

[Entertainment-]

Spotify is trying to hard to be TikTok

[fizola]

I use Apple music (AM), because it is easier. When you ask Siri on your watch to shazam something, you can add it to library in your AM, when you tell your watch, drunk, what to play, it plays in AM and so on. If it was this easily implemented for Spotify, I would consider it, but I am lazy to configure anything. When this works "out of the box" I will use it.

[BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Man if I used YouTube Music (which isn't available in my country bc Premium isn't), my entire homepage would be meme remixes of 360 by Charli XCX and Weezer meme edits. So. Yeah Spotify for me lol