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Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying::Competitors like Spotify and YouTube Music may be your first choice for music on Android, but you might want to reconsider

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[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. It’s an impossible fight, with all this magical thinking about Apple biasing any discussion. So much blind hate and no way to debate it.

Apple pays much more to artists - period. That’s why I use it.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s the fediverse for you! I’ve had better software discussion outside of it tbh.

Anyhow, library management on Apple Music is also way less annoying than on Spotify, especially when handling tracks you import from your local library.

[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I’d not just blame the fediverse - I’d call out all social media. Popularity reigns there, not accuracy or facts.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last time I tried apple music, i went to import my saved songs from Spotify along with my local songs. There were about 12000 of each at the time. Somehow I ended up with 40000 songs in my iTunes after it finished loading, and the interface was so slow it was basically unusable.. I will be sticking with Spotify for now.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spotify became so slow for me that I had to move the other direction.

I've manually handled my library, but I've used Playlisty for whatever playlists I wanted from Spotify.

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Tidal pays artists even more, and has some features Apple Music doesn't have for the same price (or cheaper if you're Military/First Responder)

But of course Apple Music is better for some people for certain features it has. And Tidal's hi-fi plan is more expensive. I get the knee jerk dislike of Apple, but nuance almost always gets lost online.

That being said, Spotify sucks lol