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Guides
Practical, no-nonsense guides to the things people actually struggle with — written to genuinely help, and to show you how Spinworthy makes each one easier.
How to stop Apple Music playing other songs when an album ends
5 min →The last track fades out, and before the silence can land, Apple Music starts a song you didn’t pick. One button stops it.
How to play an album in order on Apple Music
5 min →You pressed play on an album and got track 7, then track 2. Two things cause it, and both take a few seconds to fix.
Gapless playback on Apple Music: why albums blend, and how to hear them as made
6 min →On some albums the space between two songs is part of the music. A setting you may never have touched decides whether you hear it.
How to listen to a whole album, start to finish
6 min →Forty minutes, one record, no skipping. It sounds simple, and it’s surprisingly rare. Here’s how to make it a habit.
Album a day: how to build a listening habit that lasts
6 min →One record, every day. It’s the simplest listening habit there is, and the details decide whether it lasts a week or a year.
How to listen through Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums
8 min →Two editions, two different number ones, and about 375 hours of music. Here’s how the lists differ and how to actually get through one.
How many of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums are on Apple Music?
6 min →We checked every entry on both editions against Apple’s US catalogue. Nearly all of them are there, and most of the gaps are compilations.
Catching up on the best albums of the year: Pitchfork vs Metacritic
6 min →Every December brings a pile of best-of lists, and nobody has time for all of them. Two lists cover a lot of ground, and they disagree more than you’d expect.
Album players for Apple Music: Albums, Longplay and Spinworthy compared
7 min →If you think in albums, Apple’s Music app keeps nudging you towards songs and playlists. These three apps put the album first, in quite different ways.