You’ll rarely find a playlist on Spotify which isn’t several hours long. Often, they’re the first results with which you’re presented, and I’m always amazed by how lovingly curated they are once you dive in. Search for anything on Spotify and it’ll happily show you user-generated playlists alongside its own. I’m aware that you can create and share your own playlists on Apple Music, but Apple doesn’t appear to surface these playlists as readily as Spotify during searches. Spotify also offers curated playlists from the platform’s team, just like Apple Music, but it places an even greater emphasis on user-generated playlists – and those are the playlists I turn to most often whenever I open the Spotify app. This is where Spotify scores really high for me. One of Apple Music’s selling points is the fact that Apple has built a team tasked solely with creating playlists for its users.įirstly, what a cool job! Secondly, it means we’re putting an awful lot of trust into this team to create an incredibly wide range of playlists for the multitude of genres and listening preferences out there.īut it isn’t just genres that dictate playlist curation there’s mood, activity, and even the listener’s current task during that listening session. Spotify’s crowning glory: user-generated playlists That’s the fundamental difference between these two services and Apple Music. I’ve realised that I simply prefer the playlists on both Spotify and TIDAL, and the way those platforms foster exploration. I think this is because of the playlists on offer. You can lose yourself for hours exploring.īut there’s something about Apple Music that somehow makes it feel less explorable. But so too is the Spotify library – and the one on offer from Apple Music. The library on TIDAL is wonderfully deep. This is a surprise because I’d previously kept away from TIDAL due to an unfair assumption that it simply didn’t have enough music within its library.Īs it turns out, that was incredibly shortsighted. I genuinely don’t think that’s a differentiating factor for any music streaming platform. The fundamental differenceĪt some stage, I’m going to undertake a more comprehensive review of Apple Music versus TIDAL and Spotify, but let’s get one thing straight – they’re all incredibly similar when it comes to the library of music on offer. Admittedly, this is at the exact same time I’ve ditched my iPhone and Apple Watch, but I promise the two aren’t related.Īfter a bit of deliberation, I think I’ve worked out why Apple Music is no longer the default music app in my life. The net result of this seems to be that I’ve inadvertently given Apple Music the cold shoulder. About a month or so ago, I signed up to Spotify and TIDAL as part of a desire to expand my audio horizons and build my first ever audiophile setup. I only realised yesterday that I’ve pretty much completely stopped using Apple Music.
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