These rules can be almost anything, from your loved songs, genres of music, year of release, right down to a bracket of plays a song has. Smart Playlists allow you to set specific rules for the playlist to follow, to determine which tracks are included. One of my personal favourite features of Apple Music is Smart Playlists. For songs mixed in Dolby Atmos, spatial audio provides “a revolutionary, immersive audio experience that enables artists to mix music so the sound comes from all around and from above.” While the claims of a 3D surround experience might be a stretch, spatial audio does genuinely give a noticeably wider sound stage on compatible hardware. Whether or not you have the equipment or ears to hear the difference, the higher quality as an option is always appreciated.Īlongside the launch of lossless audio, Apple also introduced spatial audio. Apple on the other hand have fully transitioned their entire 90 million songs to at least 16-bit/44.1 kHz (CD quality), with some even as high as 24-bit/192 kHz. Sixteen months after it was announced and six month after it was due, Spotify’s HiFi tier is still yet to be seen. Being stored in Apple’s cloud means I can access what I want, when I want it, all integrated with my existing playlists. While you can upload music to Spotify and sync it to your device, this music isn’t kept in the cloud, requiring precious storage space. Until now I’ve kept them in YouTube Music as they have a free cloud music service, but switching apps to listen to my old music or something not available on Spotify was far from seamless. I have a large collection of digital audio files from before streaming was really a thing.

Here are my favourite things that Apple just does better.Ĭlick to below to jump to one of the following options: I’ve been using Apple Music as my primary music streaming service for around two months now. After recently making the switch myself, here are five Apple Music features that are still missing in Spotify.

Which is better spotify or itunes