Chill Mix - includes personalized songs to help you wind down.
New Music Mix - includes new releases by artists you actively listen to or ones the algorithm thinks you'll like.Friends Mix - includes the music your Apple Music friends are listening to.Favorites Mix - includes songs you frequently play.Get Up! Mix - includes upbeat songs that the algorithm believes you'll like.
Apple offers five personalized playlists that update weekly - excluding Replay playlists: When it comes to Apple Music - where do I even start?! The algorithm just never gets it. Anghami included the richest regional music library, Spotify had a smoother app, while Apple Music was the most integrated with iOS - after I moved to iPhone. At that point, I was hopping back and forth between Anghami, Spotify, and Apple Music. That was around the same time Spotify launched in the region. Eventually, they invited me to their headquarters to meet the software engineers and discuss my ideas with them.įinally, Anghami completely overhauled its app, but it still wasn't as polished as I'd like the app I use to relax and wind down to be. I would send the company endless bug reports, and they would fix them in the following releases. However, the experience was too buggy for my liking, despite the app's innovative features and active development.
I could subscribe to Anghami's premium plan as well, considering it was officially available there. It was my only decent option, after trying several services with VPN, such as Pandora, Deezer, and others. The free plan's restrictions were too annoying, and logging in every other week was inconvenient.Īnghami was founded in Lebanon, and it's the first legal music streaming service in the region. I had already fallen in love with the service for reasons I'll mention below, but it was time to say goodbye. Additionally, I had to log back in every two weeks with VPN enabled - once it detected I was in an unsupported region. However, that meant I couldn't subscribe to its premium plan. So I resorted to VPN to access Spotify's free service.
Streaming services only require me to log in, and they restore all of my preferences, listening history, and playlists.Īt the time Spotify wasn't available in the MENA region, and I was living in Lebanon. As someone who used to mod his phone's software a lot, factory resetting my device made backing up and transferring local music libraries a hassle. Cloud-based libraries were significantly easier to manage, and the latest releases were instantly made available. Eventually, that became too much of a hassle, and I decided to give official music streaming services a go. At first, I was using unofficial apps and services to build my local, offline library. I only started listening to music in my early teen years - when I bought my first Android smartphone. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Story Time: The first brush with online streaming
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