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I switches to Apple Music more than a year ago. It isn’t as good as Spotify (yet?), but I had some bad experiences setting up a legit family account with Spotify, so that got me angry enough to switch.

What I do like about Apple Music is being able to use Siri and my car’s radio can see all my music when I plug in my phone.

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Those are features of Apple Monopoly rather than Apple Music.

Siri can access Spotify and also be used in CarPlay

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/siri/

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/can-i-use-spotify-in-...

With Apple Music, I believe you can say:

"Hey Siri, play X".

Can you do this with Spotify? Or do you have to always say "on Spotify" for every request ever?

"on Spotify". Amazon at least lets you set a default music platform for Alexa devices that isn't their own.

I recently bought a iPhone SE and forced myself to use it as my primary phone. This "on Spotify" is really annoying and really summarizes the whole iOS experience. If you dont fully by into their walled garden you will have to deal with a lot of minor annoyances. I was thinking about switching over to Apple Music for a bit to see if I like the whole user experience a bit more even if apple music on its own is inferior.

They've only just added a default browser setting, give them a moment on this one

> I was thinking about switching over to Apple Music for a bit to see if I like the whole user experience a bit more even if apple music on its own is inferior.

I’m not sure what part of the service you consider ‘inferior’ to Spotify (I personally dislike Spotify’s UI/UX), but  Music’s iOS integration is really great. I can also use it in my android devices and Sonos stuff too.

I also find Music’s professionally-curated playlists (and radio stations now that there are a variety) to be far superior to any algorithm I’ve come across for music discovery.

Yes, this is the difference for me too. Apple's curated playlists look like an actual human made them with some forethought. Spotify's playlists are just autogenerated.

On the other hand Spotify's "Discover Weekly" is vastly superior to Apple Music's "New Music Mix".

Siri support must be new. I don't have CarPlay. I have one of those old school iPod radios. Apple Music's playlists, artists, podcasts, etc all show up fine. Spotify didn't work when I tried it.

That doesn't change anything to me though, does it?

Yeah I tried switching to Apple Music and it just doesn't feel as good.

The radio feature is nowhere near as good - recommendations are not great and you can't save stations (or queue up radios - they immediately start)

Search isn't very good, the UI is clunky, sharing playlists is confusing.

The only thing that might be going for it is being able to add our own music. I'm trying to persevere with it but I don't see any real value to switching.

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