I see the comparison, but I'll actually listen to Turn Blue and El Camino every so often. For Mechanical Bull and Come Around Sundown, once was enough.
In Rainbows and AMSP are obviously the lede here, but I just noticed all the B-sides that got wiped from Spotify in April are back, which is equally awesome.
I'll also add that another major reason I do Spotify over Apple is that my work laptop is on lockdown, but somehow Spotify seems to have immunity from this, meaning I can install it without administrator rights. I can ask one of our IT people to install iTunes, but they will only install version 7.0 because that's the most recent version they have gotten around to approving. So Apple Music would really need to blow me away to overcome that tactical disadvantage.
Ha, I'm probably not representative of the music streaming population, but what you described exactly matches my situation. I listen at work, need something I can "set and forget," and there are times where I prefer listening to albums front-to-back rather than a song-by-song shuffle of my library/playlists. It is such a simple feature though! And not like it gets in the way if you choose not to use it...
I would be careful, I've heard rumors on the internet that Apple's service where they upload your personal music library to the cloud actually changes the files, which may make them unusable if for some reason you decide to cancel the service and/or Apple Music in the future. I haven't verified this myself, and it's possible Apple changed this after the backlash, but something to think about if you don't have a backup source for those files.
Does anyone here use Apple Music? That's a stupid question... of course a ton of people use it, but my sense is the more serious, Stereogum-ish music listeners are all on Spotify. I did the free trial of Apple Music for a day and canceled it when I couldn't figure out how to make a playlist within two minutes. Spotify's interface seems to be the best right now, but there are some simple things that drive me nuts... the lack of a "shuffle album" feature, for instance. I don't know if Apple Music has that feature, I'm guessing no since it doesn't exist on the latest-gen iPhones/iPod touches. I'll probably eventually end up on what service has the best interface, but up until this announcement it didn't seem like the major players even realized that this could be a differentiator (maybe it's not... if your average music fan will go with whatever service Taylor sides with).
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