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by michaelmarion 1617 days ago
I agree on the recommendation piece, but Apple’s playlist and library management is atrocious, especially on desktop. Why can’t I drag-and-drop music into a playlist in the sidebar? Apple Music also feels (to me, at least) much slower than Spotify. Most likely this is due to the more aggressive client-side caching that Spotify does, but it’s worth the trade-off, in my opinion.

These are solvable problems for Apple, though. They need to more cleanly separate the legacy iTunes Store and pay-per-song UX from the Apple Music streaming paradigm. Maybe even have separate apps for them.

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The most frustrating thing in Apple Music for me is that it's album-centric. I can't just say "put this artist in my library". No, I have to put every individual album, EP, and single that I want.
I just switched from Spotify to AM and that really frustrated me, too. They’re just trying to keep your library like a real world library, I guess.

Side note: I abandoned spotify simply because of this design change: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/AutoPlay-Option-...

Can’t toggle off autoplay in some circumstances! Totally unacceptable.