What Music Service Do You Prefer?

Ink

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Based on my experiences with Spotify and YouTube Music, Spotify recommendations for artist discovery are most accurate.

Spotify
Positives:
+ Recommendations are top tier, most accurate to find new artists​
Negatives:
- Free version has many non-skippable Ads​
- No lossless codec for Premium subscribers​
- UI/UX can be confusing in the Free version​
- Account required for playback​

YouTube Music
Positives:
+ Ad-Free music​
+ Massive database​
+ No account required for playback​
Negatives:
- Recommendations are poor or non-existent​
- Your Liked ((y)) songs are saved in a private, non-shareable playlist​
- No standalone Premium for just Music. (YTMP is a bundle)​
 

Trident

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Negatives:
- Recommendations are poor or non-existent
For me it was the other way around. Because I am mainly dance/house/edm listener (these songs are not on TV) I really need recommendations. Whilst using YT Music Premium I discovered tons of new music. When they put something as similar, it really was.

Spotify wasn’t so good and Apple Music in terms of recommendations is ridiculous for my taste and music. Seems like Google with their gigabytes of information about me have cracked my code best 😂
 

Sorrento

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I still use Spotify mainly for background music or on the car, I've tried Tidal etc but as serious listening is done via FLAC I find paying more than Spotify pointless - I find Spotify handy to listen to new music such s a specific album then if I really like it I will still buy the album & rip it to FLAC Lossless which I can play on SONOS in here or stream to my NAD M10 amp/streamer in my lounge.
 

Shadowra

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For me it was the other way around. Because I am mainly dance/house/edm listener (these songs are not on TV) I really need recommendations. Whilst using YT Music Premium I discovered tons of new music. When they put something as similar, it really was.

Spotify wasn’t so good and Apple Music in terms of recommendations is ridiculous for my taste and music. Seems like Google with their gigabytes of information about me have cracked my code best 😂

I also listen to a lot of house/edm and Spotify has deleted a lot of music I used to listen to... whether it be music or remixes...
YouTube Music I rediscovered them 2/3 years ago now.
Apple Music I haven't tested, even if my iPhone invites me to it ^^
 

Captain Holly

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I use Pandora Plus on my laptop and in my car. It costs $5.00 a month but there are no commercials. I have been with Pandora for about seven years now so their algorithm knows my musical tastes very well. I also like how I can fine tune a station for more obscure songs that you don't hear that often.

I use Media Monkey to play my MP3 collection on my computer in Windows. In Linux Mint I use the Strawberry music player app, it is a lot like Itunes was back in the day. On the computer I use a set of One Odio A70 headphones, they sound very good and can get loud if I want. Sometimes I use Youtube Music to audition songs/albums/bands that I might run across online.

I have some of my MP3 collection loaded into the free Simple MP3 music player app and Pandora and on my phone. I use a set of Cowin E7 headphones and the free SpotEQ10 equalizer app to listen during the day at work.

C.H.
 

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