{"id":4133,"date":"2015-07-16T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2016-11-22T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:10:57","slug":"user-habits-apple-music-and-biffy-clyro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2015\/07\/16\/user-habits-apple-music-and-biffy-clyro\/","title":{"rendered":"User habits, Apple Music and Biffy Clyro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, like any user of web applications, am a creature of habit.<\/p>\n<p>I like to do things my way no matter what, because I am comfortable with my habits and, often most importantly, faster at using my habits to get things done faster.<\/p>\n<p>Take my music.<\/p>\n<p>I love music. In the office, I have Spotify open and running just about every minute of the day. I&#8217;m more than happy to pay my $10 a month for unlimited streaming.<\/p>\n<p>I have my habits when it comes to Spotify and especially how I add music to playlists. I&#8217;m a playlist fiend and have literally hundreds of playlists.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot about Apple Music, the new streaming service looking to dethrone services like Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora. As a happy Spotify customer, I saw no need to learn this new way to find and listen to music. I like my Spotify. I like my habits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/RyqYMgc.jpg\" alt=\"Biffy Clyro\" width=\"272\" height=\"181\" \/>Curiosity finally got the best of me, and I started my free 3-month Apple Music trial last night. Signing up was easy, as I could use my iTunes account. Once created, I was asked a few questions and off I went to discover some music.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a simple test to see how easy (or hard) it was to accomplish a simple task in both services.<\/p>\n<p>For this experiment, I decided to add a track from Scottish rockers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biffyclyro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biffy Clyro<\/a> to a playlist called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=mon+the+biff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mon the biff!<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First up, my trusty companion, Spotify. I like that in Spotify, I can always see my playlists on the side of the main window. No matter what music rabbit hole I end up down, I can quickly and easily jump back out to my playlists.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-g6YlPMpIBA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For me as a user, the fastest way to get a track into a playlist is to drag it into the playlist I want. You can see my habit there &#8211; and how it requires me to sometimes perform an extra scroll or three if the playlist I&#8217;m looking for is not in the viewable area, but easy for me to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s the same process repeated at Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_1oyTNHGr-U?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apple Music doesn&#8217;t make it easy for me, the user, to add a song to a playlist.<\/p>\n<p>For an individual track, it&#8217;s pretty easy using the menus, but I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to drag a song into a playlist, either from an album or the currently playing area. Both of those things I can do in Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>That has to be challenging for software and web application designers and builders &#8211; the fact that users are set in their ways and something as petty as not being able to drag a track into a playlist has set off my relationship (and a potential tenner) off on the wrong foot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got 3 months to try out Apple Music. I will give it a fair shake, but I&#8217;m stuck in my habits.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: here&#8217;s the &#8220;Mon the Biff!&#8221; playlist in <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/mrichwalsky\/playlist\/6OibeV4uH90TSKP4XiJHei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/playlist\/mon-the-biff\/idpl.ec3b13994db641b5928b970e57d1b4a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users are set in their ways and something as petty as not being able to drag a track into a playlist has set off my relationship (and a tenner) off on the wrong foot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,931,932],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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