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On phones, the interfaces are much closer, but Google Play Music still gets the nod for its superior search and organization systems. Why can’t I be searching both all the time? It’s stupidly cumbersome to have to manually select whether I want to search Apple Music or my library. The rating system is not as intuitive or easy to access. It’s not quite broken or awful, and it has a modern feature set, but I always feel like it takes me too many clicks to get to something I want.

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It’s a breeze to find an artist and then listen to all their top tracks.Īpple Music’s interface is burdened by its connection to iTunes, a piece of software that’s needed updating for years now in my opinion. The search function is incredible, not surprising coming from Google. When I thumbs-down a track, Google Play Music instantly skips it and won’t show it to me again unless I go looking for it. I particularly like the thumbs-up/thumbs-down rating system for selecting tracks I like.

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It’s entirely web-based on PC and Mac, and quite fast and flexible. It’s incredibly easy to organize a library in a number of different ways, and set up shareable playlists. Both are missing tracks that I listen to regularly and have ended up buying outright. Apple Music has a better library for my personal tastes than Google Play music, but it’s pretty close. That’s a little frustrating, and happens on any service. But it’s good that this particular album is now fixed.Įither way, Apple gets the nod in audio quality!ĭigital music can come and go, just like titles on Netflix. Thanks to Wayne for pointing this out! I’m not sure if a new master was uploaded or if Google’s compression has improved in their efforts to further develop their backend to support the new YouTube Music system.

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UPDATE : A year and a half later, the above audio issue no longer exists. Or maybe it’s just a screw-up on Google’s part. I checked the whole album out after noticing this and confirmed that compression issues exist across the whole thing on Google Play.Ĭhecking the store page on iTunes, it’s not even part of the mastered for iTunes program, so perhaps Apple’s compression is indeed just better on certain tracks. Also, the dynamic range of the Google Play version is more compressed. When she hits the highest notes of the song, on Google Play Music, there’s some slight artifacting in the audio that sounds like a warble.

UPDATE 4/27/17: If you’re looking for a track on which an audio difference/compression difference is obvious, check out Hayley Westenra’s Danny Boy, off her Celtic Treasure album. They both have really good base compression quality, but sometimes Apple has better masters and better care for the final product. Lots of folks have speculated that Apple wants to eventually use these higher quality masters to provide lossless audio, but so far nothing has come of that. It’s also hard to see in Apple Music which tracks actually conform to these standards: you’ll have to go to the iTunes store page to find out. Also, not every album will be remastered for the Mastered for iTunes program. Some albums clearly had more work done than others. Having tested this across numerous tracks, it’s not always obvious. But due to the new nature of the program, you’re often hearing the latest master only on iTunes/Apple Music. Is there anything that prevents these masters from also showing up on other services? To my knowledge, no.

On some songs the difference is minimal and on others it’s instantly noticeable. Apple requires all Mastered for iTunes tracks to meet these guidelines, and this sometimes results in vastly different/improved audio quality. They set up mixing guidelines that would help producers get the best possible sound out of Apple’s platform and compression systems. The one big difference comes in when you’re listening to a Mastered for iTunes album.Īpple launched an initiative a few years back to try and improve the quality of their digital music. In general though, Apple is more committed as a company to good quality encodes. It’s pretty hard to tell any huge differences in sound quality between GP Music and Apple Music if you’re using the highest streaming quality. I use an iPhone and a 12-inch MacBook every day, along with a PC.

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I subscribed to it because I liked the trial enough to keep using it, was curious about Apple’s “Mastered for iTunes” program, and I’m deep enough in the Apple ecosystem that I enjoy its tight integration with Apple’s various operating systems. If you are a regular user of Youtube, I think 10 bucks is more than fair for the Red benefits, and getting Google Play Music as well means it’s probably the best deal in media streaming right now.Īpple Music is also $10 a month.

#Google play library song rating for free#

I got Google Play Music for free because it’s bundled with the YouTube Red subscription, for $10 a month.