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I switched to Apple Music for a couple years and recently switched back to Spotify. Two main reasons:

1. The Apple Music desktop app is utter garbage. Other than performance issues and crashing, which happened to me almost daily, the UX is a decade behind. It's dead simple things... like the artist's name on the currently playing track isn't even a link.

2. Spotify's recommendation engine is outrageously better than Apple's. With Spotify I find new music that I actually like almost weekly, with zero effort at all. All Apple does is pigeonhole you with whatever you've listened to recently, I had a day where I listened to "lo-fi chill" music and that's all it recommended to me for weeks.



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