Apple Music vs. Spotify in 2024 - Which is Better?

Spotify getting to expensive bye

I used Spotify for a long time. Its become sooo so bad at discovering new music. Their personalised playlists mostly have the same music I've been listening like since a a month. And their song radio also olay the same songs in the genre that i listen always. Literally started hating this thing after a point of time, then I got swayed by HiRes Lossless in Apple Music & I've been loving it since.....

I used to use spotify cracked version

I pay yt premium n have ytmusic, but im lazy to re download all my playlists

Do you watch the video of a song, whilst it plays?

In my car you can 100% hear difference on audio quality. It’s night and day difference. But I have nice speakers and subs.

Trying out Apple Music with their Apple One Premier trial and I already run into glitches. Selecting one of my previous stations during CarPlay it might play or not. Sometimes I get an error

ogs will always know that soundcloud was their main music app

This topic is sooooooo subjective

I tried Apple Music for a year. I was planning on sticking with it, but I hadn’t been enjoying listening to music as much. It hit me today that Spotify’s discovery algorithms is the biggest thing I love. Apple Music is for audiophiles that know what they want to listen to. Spotify is for casual listeners welcoming new sounds.

There is only one and most important reason I recently switched to Apple Music after using Spotify for 8 years , and that is the lossless audio quality. But I don't think fully embracing a single platform is not good. Maybe I'll switch back spotify later, So I'll keep experimenting.

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Adrienne Stream

So the issue I. Personally facing is
I use android
I downloaded apple music for android.
Now when I want to synch my playlist it won't let me log it to it . Some bug

Switched from Spotify to Apple Music today and I can already tell the difference. I'll be staying with Apple Music.

Opps ! Very poor music quality of SPOTIFY ! Not recommended streaming app for music. 👎

YT music is the best music streaming platform out there

With TV OS 18, you can end music from one of Apple TV+ shows or movies to your music library

One thing that keeps me on spotify is the yearly recap i get with how many hours of listening i other fun info that i can later compare with friends

Spotify's free tier is abysmal, if I'm going to pay anyway I'd rather pay for Apple Music.
It's a dollar cheaper, has lossless music and in addition to the music I stream on the app, I can also listen to my purchased music from iTunes and imported downloads.
I've been using Apple Music for a while and I've been enjoying it, the mini-player is also really nice when I'm listening on my PC while playing games. (It does get annoying when I accidentally click on it, causing the game window to lose focus though... probably my only real gripe to be honest.)

Apple Music❤❤❤

Apple Music Classical 😂😂

I don’t want algorithms feeding my music tastes. Ive always been able to organically grow my tastes. Algorithms are for lazy people who are just casual listers.

I really want to want to switch over to apple music but the overall vibe just isn't doing it for me

the only thing that beats the big 3 is the internet archive it has no ads its free and it has everything, they have complete albums that apple and Spotify dont have plus you can download

Apple Music lossless sound quality is way better than compressed spotify.
Apple also has dolby spatial audio surround sound.

I am old enough to have a music library. I use Plex for that. I don't share playlists with anyone. I don't care about lyric display.

Spotify has localized pricing for those of us outside the US. Spotify has introduced me to new music much more often than Apple Music or iTunes has ever done. I have a home network with a mix of Android phones and Mac/iPad devices. I can start playing in Spotify, on one device, and control from another. Apple Music can't handle that.

Podcasts? Apple needs a separate app for that. Spotify has a filter to separate music and podcasts within one app.

High quality, lossless music should be an advantage. With aging ears and bluetooth headphones, this is not an advantage!

I'm a current Spotify user and recommendations are shit already shows songs that I've already heard etc.

Tidal

I hope Spotify updates their app where it can detect its connected to Apple Carplay thus it will switch to the car’s equalizer preset (I can’t say for Apple Music, I haven’t tried)

Its just annoying when I need spotify’s equalizer at home for my airpods and speakers, but have to turn it off when I’m in my car. Spotify’s eq doesn’t mix right with my car, I prefer my car’s system eq. And when they’re both on, its awful.

If Apple Music doesn’t have this issue, I’m switching.

Just switched from Apple to Spotify definitely staying where I'm at

Someone should do an experiment with contestants to see which app is picked.They listen without knowing what app is playing.

Dont know if that covers most variables though
Would be interesting to see

Don’t know why Spotify sounds better than Apple Music on my cheap tws
Is it only me ?

used to use spotify then switched, now when i go on spotify it feels like “cheap,” apples design is way nicer and simple imo

Does spotify have lossless music?

I like that for us elder millennials who started adding music to iTunes in the early aughts, we can incorporate our downloaded/ripped music on our iPhones with streamed music from Apple Music.

I hate the video loop in spotify

share play does also work outside of the car, it is just hard to find and kind of annoying to set up

For me its not really a lot about the amount of music each one has, and features.
Its really all about the app design.
I dislike Spotify's design, which is just different than the industry standard.
For example, you can only tap the bottom bar to open the music page of what you're listening to now, when everywhere else, including Apple Music - you just slide it up.
Instead Spotify let's you switch the music by swiping around...I understand the point, but I think it's just worse than how Apple did it, and less intuitive.

I went Spotify b/c their catalog was much larger than Apple Music. Now that the whole fam is on it, switching would be a pain.