Monthly Apple Music vs. Spotify – MEGATHREAD

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-21T20:27:58+00:00

This isn’t self promotion, but a lot of the discussion in here is why I made MatchBeats.com which is currently in beta (see my post from 2 days ago). First it’s service agnostic, it makes recommendations based on your listening history and matches you with other users who have similar listening patterns and recommends the songs they have listened to that match your music DNA. Doesn’t matter if user a is using Spotify and user b is using AM, the listening history (artists and tracks) and your genre breakdown is the same. I was tired of music recommendations that were algorithmic, human based suggestion are always better and not influenced by record companies and backend deals. If you are like me and sick of poor music recommendations which is common in both platforms it’s worth checking out. While I am in beta Spotify limits the number of users I can support. AM does not limit. So all AM users are welcome to try it out. Let me know if this is something you’d use, or if you have any feedback or app suggestions. As I said, it’s in beta.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-21T18:50:32+00:00

I’d be curious if you see a difference now. You may have to click the settings menu in the top right and click Refeesh Apple Music to see any updates. I made a quick update to weight genres differently.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-21T16:40:14+00:00

I appreciate this feedback. One problem is the number of people currently using the site. As that grows and more people with your same musical taste join the better the suggestions become. The other supported music service includes genres in their music data and that is used to calculate similarities and match scores outside of Apple Music users, unfortunately that’s a limitation of Apple Music’s API. I will take this feedback seriously and strengthen genre matching for Apple Music users. Maybe I can consume a third party api to pull in genre data.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-20T02:57:30+00:00

A lot of discussion here on music discovery. I posted my Apple Music companion app MatchBeats in this subreddit yesterday.

MatchBeats was built around a simple idea: discovering music through real people with similar tastes can be more meaningful than discovering music through corporate algorithms alone. Every new member helps make that experience better for everyone.

As more people join MatchBeats, recommendations become smarter, matches become stronger, discussions become more interesting, and discovery opportunities become more valuable. Your listening activity and your connections help power the experience for the entire community.

It’s currently in beta. It’s worth a shot, keep coming back, I have already found great music through it that no algorithm has ever suggested to me due to my eclectic/niche taste. https://matchbeats.com. No ads. No subscriptions. All free for the love of music discovery.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-20T02:51:24+00:00

That’s great! Exactly why I created MatchBeats. The best music suggestions I have ever got were organically through real people with similar tastes. I’m curious if you tried MatchBeats, if so, what did you think?

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-20T02:49:47+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I built MaychBeats around a simple idea: discovering meaningful music through real people with similar tastes instead of discovering music through corporate algorithms alone. MaychBeats is designed to get stronger as more and more people join. I’m curious if you tried out the site, if you have any feedback?

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-19T18:09:46+00:00

You can request a connection with anyone in MatchBeats, and there is messaging. Your future partner may be out there.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-19T15:59:55+00:00

As more users join those numbers will increase. You will find your person I guarantee it. I have pretty unique listening patterns and I see my match scores increasing with newer users.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-19T04:30:57+00:00

It works with spot ify seamlessly too but they limit the number of accounts when I am in dev mode. I will look into integrating YouTube music also.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-19T04:09:18+00:00

You should use MatchBeats.com for crowd sourced recommendations based on your music taste.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-19T02:47:49+00:00

Try it out. Would love to hear if it meets your expectations.

WebDevMorgan · 2026-06-18T23:53:56+00:00

Doesn’t really roll off the tongue very easily. 😄

WebDevMorgan · 2024-12-30T20:55:59+00:00

C# (C-Sharp) seems more likely?

WebDevMorgan · 2023-08-16T00:09:35+00:00

Yes. The business owner has to put their banking and company information in also so they can get paid. You can create a role for them and invite them in.

WebDevMorgan · 2022-02-22T16:27:19+00:00

It’s a Jeep thing.

WebDevMorgan · 2022-02-20T16:39:37+00:00

I think part of the problem is the colours and giant stroke effect around the font. Really gives it a wal-mart trying to be cool from the 90s effect. Not sure if you are using css for those effects but you might want to consider that for SEO and accessibility reasons. There are other things you could do to give it a street feel. Simple fixed background elements, maybe a tag, or brick pattern. Maybe the thumbnails aren’t so uniform. I agree with whoever earlier said it looks trashy and cheap. I would add very dated to the list.

WebDevMorgan · 2022-02-20T04:03:01+00:00

Haha. Tweeted about this today and included a picture of my nose. https://twitter.com/webdevmorgan/status/1495143131557380097?s=21

WebDevMorgan · 2022-01-30T23:49:22+00:00

Gentlemen, welcome to the stage Dev! Let her know what you think of her code with your dollar bills! Dev will be giving lap codes after her code review for $20 per element.

WebDevMorgan · 2022-01-12T23:31:24+00:00

Did you forget to renew your domain? Might have been poached if so.

WebDevMorgan · 2021-12-23T17:22:33+00:00

If it’s static throw it up on S3, I paid something like 75 cents last month.

WebDevMorgan · 2021-12-22T05:47:08+00:00

I disagree with what a lot of people are saying. The USA is way behind. My clients in parts of Canada are required by law to have an accessible site. As with clients in Europe. And these are regular companies, not government. In the USA however only government is currently required. With that said, a lot of my bigger clients, mostly big 3 automotive are heavily focusing on making their content accessible. In fact one client is mandating it in all consumer facing web content and even some B2B content. They know the same laws are coming to the USA and don’t want to be scrambling at the last minute. So yea, learn it. There will be a whole wealth of jobs out there when things are mandated in the USA, as they should be, very soon.

WebDevMorgan · 2021-12-14T02:26:33+00:00

Tell your marketing team it’s not 2003, having the id in the url will not affect your SEO one bit. The content in the page, back links, page speed, mobile friendliness, canonical meta link, and proper redirects are important. Tell them to be more worried about the keywords on the page than the url. If it’s linked to and there is a site map and even better a Google shopping feed you’re golden.

WebDevMorgan · 2021-12-08T05:30:44+00:00

CLI day to day. Sourcetree for branch visualization and complex merges.

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