Spotify overhaul for free users.

[Commodus]

47 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

I don't even use it, even paid ver. haves limits no. Why pay monthly fee for music you already bought/own though. Music as a service what. 

Because many of us like to listen to music we don't already own.  Why be boring and limit yourself to the familiar?

 

As an example: I'm a dance music fan.  Dance music artists love putting out a steady stream of EPs and singles.  If I bought every one that sounded interesting, I'd probably be dropping $50-60 a month on music.  And if you threw in the albums from other genres that I discovered... yeah, probably $100 a month.

 

It is odd to know that you have to subscribe to keep accessing this music, but I'd rather end my subscription and buy my must-have albums than spend several hundred dollars a year staying current.

[Commodus]

12 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

The only people I see using Apple Music are iPhone users.

 

People who listen to music on Android generally use Spotify or YouTube.

 

Oh, I'm not denying that most Apple Music users are Apple hardware owners.  However, I don't think Apple would be catching up to Spotify's paid user base if there weren't a significant number of Android users in the mix.

[xriqn]

3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Because I'm quite young? .

 

I may have owned like 1 or 2 CDs but they were disposed of a long time ago in a galaxy not very far away.

I'm 16 lol, the PS1 is 7 years before my time and CDs weren't a large part of my time either.

[Taja]

17 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Streaming is downloading... the data needs to travel from the server to your device... Just because you delete it as you consume it it doesn't mean there was no data transfer... But feel free to try this: switch off your internet connection and see how much spotify, youtube, or whatever you can "stream"...

 

That is a different story. You prefer to use Spotify than to manage your own media library. That is an actual difference.

I KNOW what stream and download is. Of course there is data transfer, just like a video call has data transfer, but no one says they are "downloading a call". Streaming =/= Downloading, unless you are strictly defining downloading as ALL data transfers, which would be ridiculous and not helpful. When talking about downloading, it was the process that I described, which is in part the media library management, and also the whole downloading process.

16 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Spotify is pretty worthless for my commute where half my trip lacks cell service.

No its not. Just download the songs from your house, in your quality of choice, and enjoy.

[Cheezdoodlez]

4 hours ago, Commodus said:

 

Oh, I'm not denying that most Apple Music users are Apple hardware owners.  However, I don't think Apple would be catching up to Spotify's paid user base if there weren't a significant number of Android users in the mix.

Biggest issue with Apple music is that the desktop application is iTunes. Pretty much the worst desktop app ever created. And the ios app is not much better.

 

 If apple had invested some time to create an actual useful app to use apple music with I could see apple catch up with spotify. But as it stands it will never reach outside the apple-bubble in any significant way. And I consider myself to be almost as pro-apple as our beloved Doctor. 

[Soonercoop]

I pretty much use the spotify free web player along with youtube exclusively for sampling new music and I then go buy the music I want to own in either digital or physical format for play in an offline player. Preferably, I do so through platforms such as Bandcamp so that my money actually goes to the artist. Honestly, nothing that they do will get me to use the free mobile version or to pay for the service. The only great thing imo about spotify as a player is cross platform playlists. There's no good way to sync playlists between foobar2000 and poweramp for instance. This is a major annoyance for me trying to manage a growing 200gb+ collection of music on both platforms.

[Commodus]

6 hours ago, Cheezdoodlez said:

Biggest issue with Apple music is that the desktop application is iTunes. Pretty much the worst desktop app ever created. And the ios app is not much better.

 

 If apple had invested some time to create an actual useful app to use apple music with I could see apple catch up with spotify. But as it stands it will never reach outside the apple-bubble in any significant way. And I consider myself to be almost as pro-apple as our beloved Doctor. 

I don't think it's the worst app... ironically, I'd say Apple Music simplified things a bit since you tend to stay in its interface if you're a subscriber, rather than wading through the library.  There are some things I much prefer about Apple's UI to Spotify's (for example, you can clear the song queue properly).  Not that Spotify doesn't do some things better, but it definitely has its problems.