Obviously, people have their own preferences.
Indeed. But to be honest, I say that there’s so, so much lacking across and in-between ALL the on-demand services it drives me batty.
All they’ve ALL been doing to date is looking at the other guy and punching the template clock. [more later on this point]
When I tell Siri to play music, it is the only app that responds on iOS. That made it better than Rdio ever was for my needs and I was a big fan of that service
Yep, Siri helped cut through a shit-ton AM's convoluted
cookie clutter. But the posthumous fact that rdio did not have the benefit of that parlor trick and kicked other ass speaks volumes on how great was rdio's point/click UI design. Clearly their team was actually
thinking different.
The way I interact with it is mainly via Siri,
Ayeup. For you (and many others) without a doubt AM's mobile UI with Siri is perty darn nifty. AM on iOS is where it's at without asking more and carries the bulk of the bang for you. For me, that's a fairly big consolation prize when considering a service's overall merit-- across all platforms. I use the desktop a goodly bit of the time and well, AM inside iTunes is both relatively and competitively pretty shitty presently. It's over-thunk and very, very gooey. For my day in-day out, the sniff & usability test says PU. It's so bad it borders on a deal breaker for me.
FWIW, AM comes in a solid third (in a scootch... maybe second) on the desktop. Any chance that has any ring of truth to you as to how bad things are overall in this space? LOL
[sigh] WTF
I have posted here and elsewhere the many enhancements I would like to see, but I have no idea if any of them will be addressed.
Aye. heh...you are much more polite & forgiving than I.
Yes. 'All in good time' as you infer. Of course it's all any of us can wait/hope for. But damn...and [rhetorically] just plain double why dayum on WTF are they ALL doing 9 to 5! What are any of them doing to stand out from one another!? Pop music exclusives? Contract deals? Uber tweaking the radius borders on album art? Ptooey! That's rat tail tit-fer-tat losing battles. As a consumer FUH!
I just joined YouTube Red for the summer for 99 cents. I still don't like the music service [YouTube Red/Google Music], but it is very basic/clean, so you might prefer it.
Ha ha. Nope. Red's pretty cool in it's own lean back happenstance way...but overall it and Google Music IMO is yet another second-thought clock-punch jumble. It has it's place but it's not the best way to enjoy or accumulate a modern music collection. Worse yet, GM leans way too engineered and stark. Looks exactly as I would envision a "coder" seeing things.
I've mentioned before that I have been fortunate enough to have full access comp accounts with Google Music and Spotify. Most recently I was offered a full ride with Tidal. But and up until their demise...
I paid for rdio. That's how much better overall rdio was (as a reference remains the high bar for design and non-group think).
Steve Jobs said:
“…. — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” .
Rdio was collection focused and far ahead of the staus quo today on several fronts. Clean & simple yet it out powered the crowd overall with..get this…useful & complex features without getting in your way. You may not have realized this so much since you mainly use iOS apps …but their desktop blew everyone out of the water speaking not only from a general user but to a music geek standpoint as well. It was brilliant compared to what was (even today) being offered. Their mobile app was nothing to sneeze at either.
Main point being…. They are ALL lackadaisically “ripping us off” so to speak relative to what’s possible in this space. “Us” being those that really give a shit about music, deep discovery, back catalog intel, etc.. Not to mention the extremely silly UI gotchas. For example, Tidal’s quick sand album catalog click . No placeholder nav back to results? Mash anything... sigh…back to the top of the que.
Jesus,!
There is so much room (along with no-brainer concepts) where they ALL fall short and apart. None of what I’m bitching about here is Moon shot shit. 50% is just fixing dumbass nav and "Hollywood" goofeyness. I’m only bitchily replying in the Apple Music thread here cause it’s the most current cusp of discussion. That said, given Apple's historical mantra to finesse, their bankroll, shortcut acquisition, and deep talent base…I did expect better. I break their balls with love short tempered horse-whip understanding.
Hambone and shove on all you ol’ nags.
-----Ooooo, WWDC 2016 was today. Film at eleven (July for hands on…Fall for the masses)
. I personally can not tell the difference between Apt-X streaming and WiFi Airplay or DLNA. A true audiophile that has testing equipment can probably show me why Airplay is far superior, but to these ears, it's identical. My BlackBerry 10 came with Apt-X architecture for Bluetooth so what the heck.
