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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
I'm one of the apparently uncommon people who really dug iTunes Match. I'm an extreme case though in the way I tag, categorize, and rate music.
I've been a huge fan of Spotify since it became available though and I was positive I'd not find anything in Apple Music that convinced me to switch. I was wrong. Beats1 can pound sand, and Connect is totally useless, but the curated playlist recommendations alone will make me ditch spotify. I spent a bit of time clicking "love" on all my favorite stuff in my iTunes library, which Apple Music uses to put together recommendations.
The result is that I've found more "new to me" music I love (from stuff I missed in the early 2000s to new bands I've never heard of) in two days with Apple Music than I would in weeks with Spotify.
The recommended curated playlists are the key I think. Great playlists around a theme that Apple Music detected a preference for from my library.
I'll keep both until the free trial is up, but today it looks like I'll be switching just for the "For You" tab in Apple Music.
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I should clarify, I loved the idea of iTunes Match, it just failed on me enough times that I became very frustrated with it. My assumption is that I had some corrupt files that were causing problems. I was experiencing the same problems with Apple Music and did some serious culling in my library and things appear to be much smoother.
I agree with you on the playlists. I heard Jimmy Iovine talk at length about the importance of the curated playlist, and I agreed with him. I didn't understand how Apple was going to be any different from Spotify and Rdio in that regard though, as they both had fairly good curated lists. What I've noticed since launch is that Apple has an incredible volume of them in comparison, which I'm guessing have been in development since the beats launch.
I had this idea a while back to organize all my phone photos and videos because they're just a 90 gig mess sitting on a hard drive. My idea was to make a yearly video combining photos and movies starting at the point I had kids. I wanted to use songs that were released in those years, and surprisingly spotify and rdio weren't great at providing a list of songs by year. They have the upload date, but those are obviously different from the song release date. Type 2009 into Apple music and you get multiple playlists broken out by genre for that year. It's very useful.
Then there's the company partnerships. Perusing through the Rolling Stone playlists is pretty fun. It feels a bit like John Cusack in High Fidelity took a bunch of adderall and made 100 playlists. "Songs about fire", "Songs about the 5 Senses" etc... odd stuff I realize. But there's also some gems like "Best B-Sides You've Never Heard" or "Bands that influenced Nirvana" that are fairly interesting.