Listening to music is one of our major routines in daily life. This entertaining simple fun can be more attractive and enjoyable with some features. Most people listen to podcasts and radio programs in addition to music. One of the most popular tools that makes listening to music, podcasts, and radio more enjoyable is Apple Music. If you don't know What is Apple Music and what does it do, you can read our post about introducing Apple Music in Special Videos. We also have another blog post about ways to activate Apple Music. Today in this post we want to review best Apple Music features and its benefits over its competitors. So keep going on with Apple 98 in this post.

What does Apple Music offer?

Apple Music is from those services that Apple spent lots of energy on, to make it a full-featured world-class music streaming platform. From offline music listening to great archive of music, albums, playlists, and radio stations to full compatibility with Siri, etc. each feature has itself attraction for users.

Stream music via Apple Music

Just like Spotify, Soundcloud, Tidal, Deezer, and other music streaming platforms, Apple Music offers streaming function at the highest quality and less data consumption. Apple Music also lists all music tracks that you store on your device storage and loads metadata such as official cover arts, producer tags, lyrics, etc. for almost all of your local audio tracks. A feature that adds to the practicality and attractiveness of Apple Music.

The world's most complete music archive

Thanks to a huge music archive of over 100 million songs, you can find almost every music you're looking for in the Apple Music. Most music streaming platforms nowadays offer option to download audio tracks. Apple Music provides option to download tracks and listen to them offline too. So you can make sure that you always have access to your favorite music tracks even when you're on a trip or everywhere else on the go.

High audio quality and clarity

In order for users to enjoy listening to music, Apple offers all Apple Music tracks with Dolby Atmos and Lossless Audio technologies. Thanks to these technologies the songs in Apple Music are played with a very high and unique quality. This unique quality, along with the extraordinary clarity of the music presented on this platform, have made listening to music in Apple Music one of the best experiences.

One of the features that Apple has provided to create an exclusive experience in Apple Music is called Spatial Audio. This feature makes the music seem to be played in a space that's deeper and feels more alive. For example, when you hear the sound of drums, you really visualize it in front of your face. Or, for example, the sound of string instruments can be heard from the left corner behind you. The sound of the guitar rhythm can be felt from the left and right and with a close distance. The singer's voice somehow sounds as if he is sitting in front of you, etc. Definitely listening to music with such wonderful technology leads to a unique and lovely experience!

Apple Music playlists; Apple Music magic

One of the strengths of Apple Music is the unlimited number of playlists in it. These playlists are available to you based on style, mode, singer, year of production, time and place of use and many other categories so that you can play and enjoy the music you are looking for right away without having to search. The magic wand of Apple Music in this section is the smart playlists. During your use of this service, Apple Music examines your behavior and listening habits at different times of the day, month, and season of the year to provide you with playlists that are completely made for you!

Apple Music smart playlists are automatically prepared and adjusted based on your mood and and are presented to you so that whenever you enter Apple Music, you are just one touch away from listening to the music you're thinking about!

Sharing Apple Music playlists

Apple Music also offers you the possibility of sharing playlists. You can categorize your favorite songs in various playlists and share them with your family members. If you don't know what Family Sharing is, you can read the article What is Family Sharing.

Control Apple Music with Siri

Another Apple Music exclusive feature that completely distinguishes it from its competitors is full compatibility with Siri. You can control all parts of Apple Music with voice commands through Siri. For example, you can tell Siri to select and play a specific song or album or artist. Also, the ability to manage playback such as stop and play, previous and next song, and volume control are among the commands you can give to Apple Music through Siri.

Finding music and playlist with Siri

Thanks to Siri, there's an attractive feature in Apple Music which is finding music by singing it to the Siri! To do that, you sing a part of your favorite song to Siri and Siri finds it in Apple Music and plays it. Siri can also find and play smart playlists. For example, if you tell Siri "Hey Siri play a relax playlist" you will hear the sound of your favorite music in a fraction of a second.

See real-time lyrics in Apple Music

One of the beautiful yet not so much exclusive features of Apple Music is the ability to display real-time song lyrics. However, this feature is also available on other platforms such as Spotify and is nothing new. As the singer sings, Apple Music highlights the lyrics so you know what part of the song the singer is singing now. This feature greatly helps your language listening skills. Therefore, Apple Music can be useful for strengthening your language!

Full compatibility with iCloud

One of the exclusive features of Apple Music, which makes it several steps ahead of its competitors, is full compatibility with iCloud. In fact, Apple Music can detect and receive new data from your iCloud. This feature is useful when you want to transfer your music collection from Macbook, iMac, iPad, and even Windows and Android devices and have all your music in one place so you don't have to worry about losing them. iCloud plays a role in keeping your music library integrated. To get familiar with how to transfer songs from different devices to Apple Music, we'll write an article entitled "Learning how to transfer song files to Apple Music and iPhone".

Listening to radio stations with Apple Music

One of the advantages of Apple Music over its competitors is the ability to play radio stations. This feature allows you to listen to live radio programs. The quality of the radio you hear with Apple Music is much higher! Apple Music has made listening to radio stations a fun!

Listening to podcasts with Apple Music

Podcasts are also found in Apple Music. There are many podcasts published on Apple Music that can entertain and educate you for hours. Despite the fact that many Apple Music podcasts may be exclusively on Apple Music, but since services such as Spotify and Soundcloud also host many podcasts, it cannot be said that this feature is Exclusive to Apple Music only.

Using Apple Music in multi devices

One of the other attractive features of Apple Music, which some of its competitors have implemented in some way, is that you can activate Apple Music on multiple devices. Currently, Apple Music is available on all Apple devices, but if your device is old or does not have Apple Music installed on it, you can download Apple Music from the App Store. All activity records and changes you make in Apple Music are stored on your Apple ID. Therefore, you can have the same songs, playlists and even songs playing on Apple Music on any device. Just log in with your same Apple ID.

Summary

In this article, we tried to examine the most important capabilities and competitive advantages of Apple Music. Apple Music is a fun and attractive service. You should keep in mind that each music streaming service has different policies regarding user experience and features. So, in the end, you are the one who chooses your favorite streaming service. If you intend to buy Apple Music subscription, we suggest you choose the Apple One subscription. Because if you buy Apple One account, you can save money and, in addition to Apple Music, you can activate Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+, Apple News+, and 2 TB iCloud+!