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Apple Music is now becoming an experience totally unlike any other, what with this, lossless audio, spatial audio and the whole AirPods ecosystem -- nothing els
by igammarays 5y ago
Apple Music is now becoming an experience totally unlike any other, what with this, lossless audio, spatial audio and the whole AirPods ecosystem -- nothing else compares. When this classical service comes out I think it might be the last push I need to drop Spotify, because even though I'm not an audiophile, I want to be able to accurately find and curate classical music.
- dominotw 5y agoi have the whole setup but i cannot tell the difference. Their dolby demo kind of seems like its something but i honestly don't listen that actively to notice. I miss 'discover weekly', collaborative playlists , spotify curated playlists, on repeat ect.
- thom 5y agoNot sure if ‘discover weekly’ does more, and there are still huge unexplored areas of music recommendation, but the weekly recommended playlists on Apple Music have been wonderful for me. I add music to my library faster than I can listen to it at this point, and I’ve discovered bands in my 40s that I hold as close to my heart as those I discovered as a teenager.
- villasv 5y agoTo me, lossless is mostly like organic food. It's about knowing that its origin is pure, even though I can't really taste the difference.
- threeseed 5y agoOn revealing equipment you can absolutely tell the difference. I own a pair of Focal Clear and on a number of songs the previous AAC encoding would exhibit artifacts and sound a lot less crisp.
- simondotau 5y agoI treat claims that people can hear differences between lossless and high bitrate lossy compression with scepticism. I do not doubt anyone's sincerity, but it's unbelievably easy to fool yourself with audio signals. Expectations become reality even when the signal is identical. What you expect changes how you listen; and how you listen changes what you hear. (I work for a classical music label.)
- jabroni_salad 5y agoFor me it is the discography view that Spotify has. They buried it in the most recent update, but I recently found that none of the competition has it. That and it turns out that Apple's windows software is still a bit of a dog after all these years.
- yati 5y agoI gave up on it after the free trial. The search extremely shitty for anything except popular Western music, and oh the recommendations! You like some Shiv Kumar Sharma? How about also trying $random_hiphop_dude? YT Music has its flaws, but there is simply nothing that comes close to music discovery there.
- garyfirestorm 5y agoI second this. YTMusic has amazing recommendations. I am though more excited about the lossless and high-res lossless playback. I have a nice DAC and Sennheiser HD6xx that provide amazing listening experience in Apple Music. I have never found any other service that provided high res bollywood music. not even torrents!
- Synaesthesia 5y agoThe classical music on Apple Music is really awesome IMO.
- gwd 5y agoThey've got a good selection, but the Siri search leaves a lot to be desired. "Hey Siri, play Beethoven's 5th." "Okay, here's Beethoven, Symphony Number 6, Movement 3, Allegro Whatevero." ???
- simondotau 5y agoYes, Siri does tend to prioritise song names over album names. I've learned to say "Siri, play the album The Getaway" so that it plays the whole album.