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No you dont, every streamer from spotify to apple music to qobuz and deezer allow for a full import. I switched to apple music and it pulled everything.
It is a worse service though which says a lot, spotify does suck but AM has a terrible and boring UI and UX
My wife and I ditched streaming for just owning music through bandcamp or CD. We've exported her Spotify playlists. If anybody has a link to a tool for generating local playlists from exported Spotify JSONs (for tracks you own, and a list of tracks you need to complete them), I'm all ears.
I'd try to write one in PowerShell, only to lose interest halfway through the project, but I don't have Spotify, sorry!
I actually prefer the Apple music interface. Easier to navigate, and their queuing system isn't horrific. Having play next be different from add to queue is essential. Spotify's "add to queue" feature playing what you add next instead of the album you started playing was infuriating.
In Spotify, add to queue adds to the end of the queue for me. But the queue is always ahead of whatever you were previously listening to. I prefer it to be this way, for me. The queue is the additional songs I want to listen to, ahead of the main thing ive selected, which I eventually want to return to.
When I want to listen to first this, then that, then that, etc., I "add to playlist" instead of add to queue.
Now, if I do have a queue already but I want to select a new song to jump to the front, I do have to go into the queue and move the song I want next to the next spot, so I'd appreciate a play next button also.
In apple music, does play next always become the next song, and pushes the other "play nexts" further back? And does add to queue add to the very end, or is the queue a special list in front of your main playback like in Spotify?
Yes exactly. Apple Music play next puts the song or album next always and add to queue to the end always. So the way you prefer is possible with play next, and how I prefer to queue after albums is possible with add to queue. It makes it much easier for DJing on the fly too when you find a song that would be perfect next. I missed this feature from Google Play Music for years while I used Spotify in its place once Google shut it down and folded into yt music.
It is still not to hard to DJ on the fly, but it does take a few more taps to move a song from the back of the queue to the top. IMO it encourages you to organize the play next queue every time you are adding a song though which is nice. A lot of times when I'm on aux I end up removing a bunch of songs from the queue because the vibe has changed since I added them, but if I leave it alone for awhile, it gets back to my playlist on its own.
I think in apple music I'd miss the ability to add to the end of the "play next" queue but ahead of the playlist, but I would like the play next button!
Oh interesting. Except I hate apple and never heard of the others
Qobuz is awesome, still growing though.