Streaming, particularly music, is now a standard in society and as such, individuals want to share their listening habits. Receiptify gained popularity as a way of visualizing one’s music consumption in the form of a receipt.
However, there is no support for Apple Music in Receiptify any longer. In this article, we will discuss the history of Apple Music Receiptify and the features it has as well as the effects of its being taken down.
The Concept of Music Receipts
The application ever caught the public’s eye due to its innovative idea of presenting the user’s music streaming data in the form of a receipt. This made it possible for the users to check their top-played songs and post them to their social media platforms. The idea was simple yet powerful: offer a physical manifestation of one’s digital music use.
The Impact of Apple Music Receiptify’s Removal
Many people are now looking for a way to display their Apple Music listening history after discovering that Receiptify no longer supports it. The receipts offered by Receiptify not only became a cool tool for expressing one’s musical preferences but also could be considered as a kind of diary of one’s musical preferences.
Currently, there is no other application that can effectively generate Apple Music receipts like Receiptify for Apple Music apart from Apple Replay. Apple Music Replay gives the users the top songs they have played in the year but does not come with the same visual receipt style or the feature to check their habits over other periods as was the case with Receiptify.
Why Does Receiptify Have Limited Features with Apple Music?
The fundamental reason why Receiptify has limited functionality with Apple Music is that Apple Music’s API is quite limited. Here’s a breakdown:
- API Differences: Spotify has a more informative API which allows users to get deeper into their listening history while Apple Music’s is quite limited in this aspect. It is not as detailed as one would want to know concerning the songs that were played at certain time intervals.
- “Heavy Rotation” Focus: Apple Music mostly uses the ‘Heavy Rotation’ data in particular and provides it with the help of API. This displays the songs that you often play but it does not have the same time frame selection as seen in Spotify.
- Adapting to What’s Available: Receiptify struggles to properly interact with Apple Music, and mostly only gets data from the ‘Heavy Rotation’ feature. This implies that you will not be able to generate receipts for certain months or intervals in the same way.
Conclusion
This is because Receiptify has stopped supporting Apple Music, thus putting an end to the experience that was offered to the users to visualize their music consumption in a unique way. But it also equally creates room for development in the space. Over time, people will seek to interact with their digital music profiles and thus the creation of more sophisticated and effective tools will persist.