sluggish UI aside, I really don't like Apple Music's TASTE in music. Spotify's playlists are reliably more niche. Apple is far more "GRAMMY/Top 40"-oriented and that's just not interesting to me.
Also, Apple should have bought Rdio.
Also, Apple should have bought Rdio.
I'm with you there.
Apple (and really all the streaming services) are constantly crowing about how many millions of songs they have. How about some metric for how many good songs they have?
80% of my wife's record collection is not available on Apple Music, so I'm left ripping her records in what used to be my spare time.
The only reason we have Apple Music is for when an artist she follows puts out a new record, so she can listen to the album to decide if it's worth buying.
Also, Apple Music's Siri integration is horrendous. For example, no matter what request I shout to it, Siri can only play one particular song by Weird Al Yankovich. My guess is that there's something with the quotation marks commonly used in his name screwing up Apple's search mechanism.
I have high hopes for Apple's new classical streaming service. It has a chance to redeem itself there.
I'm really curious what kind of music is in her collection? I'm always amazed at the obscure stuff that is available... obscure jazz, klezmer, classical recordings, etc...
Thankfully music is mostly "search for that song", "play a mix from this playlist", or "play just this playlist" so no one needs to suffer through it for long.
Besides, perhaps your taste in music is not aligned with most others.
I managed to bring their auto generated playlists to an acceptable level by favoring enough artists, but it's still a very lacking experience.
[0] e.g. searching for Detroit house playlists gives me "Classic Rock Classics". Lofi house → "Epidemic Sound Christmas".