What app do you use for your music and is Spotify better than Apple Music/Youtube music?
I may be an oddball. Typically I use pandora and youtube to find music, then I buy it on bandcamp or buy the CD.
Spotify and Apple Music both have similar-sized libraries; Spotify includes other things, like podcasts, that Apple Music doesn’t. But if you are into lossless audio, Apple Music includes it with its subscription, Spotify requires a more expensive tier (not even sure if it’s available yet).
The age old question. My band and I have music on both platforms.
Apple Music has a deeper collection as their business model actually started the music streaming industry as we know it today.
Spotify roots are from college kids music sharing platform. You originally had to have a .edu email address to even get it. (mid 2000’s)
I’ve had both for countless years.
Apple wins in my opinion from a audio quality perspective and catalog perspective.
Spotify wins with consideration to ease of use, playlist creation/sharing, Weekly Discovery (new music based on what you listen to).
I use both in their highest quality settings that are available. Most ears can’t tell the difference. You can tell a difference with a good set of headphones and specific track.
Apple will cut out more than Spotify when you get into poorer cell zones. Annoying enough for me to prefer Spotify.
There is no way to port playlists from one service to another. So if you are into playlist creation, then you may want to just sit in one camp.
I won’t even touch the religious battles of artists against Spotify for podcast and revenue issues.
I prefer pandora for the algorithm, but most of my friends like spotify. So I end up on there if I want to share playlists with them, or listen to playlists they send to me.
I get Amazon Music as part of the Prime membership. The interface is fine but, up until recently, they had a limited library. Plus, not all music was included in the Prime membership. Too complicated.
For whatever reason, I got a subscription to Pandora before Spotify existed. They’ve never raised my rate. I pay $4/month, so I have no desire to change it. If I changed, I would get YouTube Music, because I’m deep in the Google ecosystem. I use Apple Music but I have tried Spotify premium. I prefer Apple Music. I haven’t tried any others but I figure they mostly have the same content so it’s really about user interface. I landed on and use Apple Music. The interface is good (not great), they have millions of songs/albums in all genres, and I’m deep into the Apple ecosystem anyway. The Siri integration is fairly good. I have the student/educator account for $5.99/mo.
My thought is that this will get the most money to the artist. I’m not sure that this is backed up by facts. :) But it also means I don’t have to deal with DRM (same thing if I bought on iTunes, which I do occasionally.)
Spotify and Apple Music both have similar-sized libraries; Spotify includes other things, like podcasts, that Apple Music doesn’t. But if you are into lossless audio, Apple Music includes it with its subscription, Spotify requires a more expensive tier (not even sure if it’s available yet).
The age old question. My band and I have music on both platforms.
Apple Music has a deeper collection as their business model actually started the music streaming industry as we know it today.
Spotify roots are from college kids music sharing platform. You originally had to have a .edu email address to even get it. (mid 2000’s)
I’ve had both for countless years.
Apple wins in my opinion from a audio quality perspective and catalog perspective.
Spotify wins with consideration to ease of use, playlist creation/sharing, Weekly Discovery (new music based on what you listen to).
I use both in their highest quality settings that are available. Most ears can’t tell the difference. You can tell a difference with a good set of headphones and specific track.
Apple will cut out more than Spotify when you get into poorer cell zones. Annoying enough for me to prefer Spotify.
There is no way to port playlists from one service to another. So if you are into playlist creation, then you may want to just sit in one camp.
I won’t even touch the religious battles of artists against Spotify for podcast and revenue issues.
I prefer pandora for the algorithm, but most of my friends like spotify. So I end up on there if I want to share playlists with them, or listen to playlists they send to me.
I get Amazon Music as part of the Prime membership. The interface is fine but, up until recently, they had a limited library. Plus, not all music was included in the Prime membership. Too complicated.
For whatever reason, I got a subscription to Pandora before Spotify existed. They’ve never raised my rate. I pay $4/month, so I have no desire to change it. If I changed, I would get YouTube Music, because I’m deep in the Google ecosystem. I use Apple Music but I have tried Spotify premium. I prefer Apple Music. I haven’t tried any others but I figure they mostly have the same content so it’s really about user interface. I landed on and use Apple Music. The interface is good (not great), they have millions of songs/albums in all genres, and I’m deep into the Apple ecosystem anyway. The Siri integration is fairly good. I have the student/educator account for $5.99/mo.
My thought is that this will get the most money to the artist. I’m not sure that this is backed up by facts. :) But it also means I don’t have to deal with DRM (same thing if I bought on iTunes, which I do occasionally.)
