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by ghostly_s 2713 days ago
Personally I don't use Spotify because the interface is hostile to people who prefer listening to full albums, and I don't want to support a monoculture if I have an alternative (not that Apple is some great panacea for artists, of course).
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news_to_me 2713 days ago
I listen to music that way too, but I'm toughing it out on Spotify still. I'm curious, how do you feel Apple Music's interface is better in that regard?

I was too late for rdio, but from what I hear it sounds like the music service I really want :/

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publicfig 2713 days ago
Not OP: I really like how (especially on the mobile app) it's always pretty easy to see which albums each track is associated with no matter what direction I get to the Artist from. In Spotify, I have issues where from some directions, it just lists all of the songs that I have saved from an artist, ignoring the album information. It also will sometimes end up with the songs in alphabetical order, making it difficult to listen to the album. While there's always a way to end up seeing a view that I want, it usually ends up with me clicking though a bunch of links to get to the Artists default page, and on things like CarPlay, that's not really an option either making it more difficult.

That was one of my main reasons for switching to Rdio when it was out, and while I really liked Rdio for its UI, it definitely had enough bugs/delays in song starting that I ended up moving (reluctantly) back to Spotify until Apple Music was released. Now, with that handled along with cloud uploads of my local media (I buy a lot off of bandcamp), it feels like a much more whole offering. I wish social and discovery features were up to Spotify's levels, but I personally have moved away from those for various reasons anyway, so it's not as much of an issue for me as it is for users who really utilize those features.

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jdillaaa 2713 days ago
Yeah, I have found Apple Music to be better than Spotify for the curation of music libraries.

> it just lists all of the songs that I have saved from an artist, ignoring the album information

AM definitely has Spotify beat here. Click an artist, see their albums, choose an album to listen to. All in one view. It seems so natural ... I wonder if this is because I learned to curate my music on iTunes, and it is just a habit?

But for music discovery, open development practices (this is the biggest reason I switched from AM to Spotify - knowing that no matter what kind of thing I want to hack together, Raspberry Pi connected to BT speaker connected to projector, I would be able connect Spotify to it somehow), and social music experience, I think Spotify has AM beat.

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hackmiester 2713 days ago
> AM definitely has Spotify beat here. Click an artist, see their albums, choose an album to listen to.

Maybe I am missing something, but it seems like the flow you describe is exactly how it works in Spotify. Here is an artist page with the album list prominently featured: https://i.imgur.com/wNAjoCa.png

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jdillaaa 2713 days ago
Sorry, I was referring to your curated music library, not searching.

For example, in Spotify they just list all the tracks

https://i.imgur.com/Bse9J7z.jpg

In Apple Music, they list the albums, year, artwork, etc.

https://i.imgur.com/jyktt7R.jpg

I definitely prefer Apple's for browsing my current music.

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