[techdragon]

Spotify -> Better discovery story, genre classification, and theme/mood/genre automatic playlists.

Apple Music -> Better integrated into my iPhone, iPad, etc, etc.

Is there really much beyond this? Other than some very niche/indie stuff or contract licensing oddities with an overseas market like mine (Australia) ... I don't see any difference in catalog. Can someone more familiar with the catalog dataset weigh in? I'd be interested to know if one of them actually has a more extensive collection.

[FumblingBear]

The biggest technical difference between the two that actually made me switch from Spotify to Apple Music is that Spotify has a 9,999 song limit for songs stored in your library, whereas Apple Music has no limitation.

My music library is around 18k songs, so not being able to store them all in my library on Spotify was not tenable.

[noahtallen]

Out of curiosity, how is Apple Music better integrated? Spotify seems just as well integrated, especially now that Siri can treat it like your default music app. (E.g. “Hey Siri, play Novo Amor” starts a song by that artist in Spotify.)

Curious if there are other things I’m missing

[techdragon]

Having never set Spotify to my default, I have no idea how well it integrates with Siri. Does it get any better integrated with the song identification features if you make it the default?

[WastingMyTime89]

You have to connect your Spotify account with Shazam in the Shazam app option and disconnect Apple Music for that. Then the integration is on par.

Apple makes it really annoying to avoid their subscription services and use alternative apps. That’s the main point on which they are clearly inferior to Android.

[jononomo]

Spotify works perfectly on my iPhone -- what you do is hit the icon to open the app, then hit the play button. Pretty slick integration, if you ask me.