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Bandcamp
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No "Monthly or Yearly" subscription plans
Once you buy (or support) a song/album from an artist on Bandcamp, you get to open a fan account and unlimited streaming and downloads from your purchases.
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Multiple filters
The Bandcamp discovery site has multiple filters making it easy to find exactly what you want. If you're looking for Best-Selling Electronic albums on vinyl from 3 weeks ago, Discover has you covered.
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Search or browse by tags
When artists upload their music, the can add their own tags to their albums or songs. This leads to some very unique finds and allows you to find interesting music.
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Audio fidelity is Bandcamp's name
Downloading songs (you bought) lets you download in multiple choices of codecs/formats, like MP3, FLAC, AIFF, AAC and many more to make sure you get to hear what you want to hear.
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Unlimited streaming
Listen to songs as many times as you want.
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"Fair Trade Music Policy"
Bandcamp's share is 15% on digital items, and 10% on physical goods. Payment processor fees are separate and vary depending on the size of the transaction, but for an average size purchase, amount to an additional 4-7%. The remainder, usually 80-85%, goes directly to the artist, and they pay out daily. Since they only make money when artists make a lot more money, their interests remain aligned with those of the community they serve. It’s a straightforward approach, and it works well.
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Web, iOS, Android
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Up to lossless
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Radio4000
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Calm and anonymous
No notifications, social pressure, branding. Just explore what people around the world really care about.
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No app
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Listen to selections from around the world
Everyone can create and share their selection of favorites.
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Easy media library management
It is possible to use #hashtags to manage your media library. In the default presentation mode, medias are organized by month, it gives a sweet overview of a radio.
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Free (as in tea and speech)
Free for everyone, no advertising, and free software
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Fresh alternative to the traditional and old music software
Music crisis, artists not getting payed, major softwares and labels controlling the ecosystem. With open alternatives it is possible to redefine interactions between artists, content producers, listeners, and everyone who cares about music, creation, culture, knowledge, societies.
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Open ecosystem (free software + API)
You can easily export and manipulate your data. All the website and software are free to copy, study, look at and share. It makes it possible to build other cool tools, with your music library data.
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Platforms:
Everywhere
Price:
Free
Free tier:
Everything is free
Selective downloading:
Yes (through ecosystem software)
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Anghami
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Curated, recommended playlists and weekly mixtapes
You get recommended playlists based on your listening preference, plus each week you get a mixtape with tracks that's unique to you.
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Ads
The app has many advertisements
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Create and share playlists
You have complete freedom to create and share playlists with your friends.
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Seamless listening across devices
You can continue where you left off from your PC to your Phone or any other device connected to your account, it's like Netflix for music.
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Synchronized lyrics
Lyrics are there for almost any song and they are synchronized with the song as well.
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Radar Songs Playing Around You
When you hear a song playing around you, and you can't know it's title, or you want it in your library. You can radar it. Just press and hold on "Search" option, and it will automatically open radar, or you can press "Search" option, and press "Tap To Radar" Button. It's a great feature for me, also it's faster than Shazam.
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Play More Like This
When you find a song you like, you can chose "play more like this" option and it will suggest pretty similar songs, it works for me greatly.
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Upload music from your devices
You can upload your offline music to add to your Anghami streaming library.
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SoundCloud
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Recommendations
Links to related music, based on what you're listening to, can be found in the sidebar.
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Can't do an advanced search
You can't search, for example, for Creative Commons music with the tag #trap. It could be useful to search for music you like that is under Creative Commons.
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Subscribe to artists
You can subscribe to artists to be notified the instant they upload a new song or give an update.
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Interface is full of bugs
The SoundCloud website has tons of problems, including issues with notifications, favorites, and uploading sounds.
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Explore tab has new music constantly
Explore tab on SoundCloud shows trending music that can be filtered based on genre/tag. There's a constant stream of new music.
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Audio ads in some uploaded content
Some content on SoundCloud includes audio ads, particularly sponsored podcasts. (Note that SoundCloud itself doesn't add these - all the audio you're hearing is exactly as it was uploaded.)
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Follow people
You can follow people with similar tastes or that often find new music. When they favorite a song, SoundCloud will notify you about it.
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Free to use
You don't even have to log in or sign up for an account if you don't want to. There are paid options for if you want to upload large quantities of audio (eg if you're a music label you'll need this), but it's free to download as much and as often as you like.
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Pre-releases
Some music labels, especially newer ones, release on SoundCloud before anywhere else.
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Creative Commons filter
SoundCloud allows for finding music that is licensed under Creative Commons.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, Desktop, Sonos, Windows Phone
Free tier:
Partial
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
256kbs AAC
Offline Download:
Premium (partial)
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Pandora
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Most personalized radio experience
The Pandora music streaming service is the best at predicting which songs the user would enjoy hearing. Unlike services which have rudimentary recommendation algorithms, Pandora uses over 400 selection attributes that are combined to form over 2,000 focus traits including rhythm syncopation, key tonality, harmonies, and instrumental proficiency. Not only does Pandora use this plethora of conditions to determine each song's inclusion in your station, but it also displays the specific reason that each song was played, as well as its relation to your input criteria.
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Not available outside the US
For those that live outside the US, the service is not available to them, which greatly limits users from around the globe.
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Easily learns what you like and dislike
The Pandora music streaming service allows you to rate each song played with a "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down" to signal your opinion of the song that is played. The station incorporates every single rating to intelligently learn your preferences over time, resulting in an extremely tailored station based on your input.
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Limited bitrate
Most songs played on Pandora Radio are 128 kpbs bitrate. That being said, the paid version of the service offers songs with a bitrate of 192 kbps.
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Extremely versatile stations
Unlike other music streaming services, Pandora allows you to create a station from a single song, artist, album, or genre, and the service has a huge library of over 800,000 tracks from 80,000 artists. More importantly, Pandora lets you mix and match an unlimited number of input criteria to create a station for any mood/style/occasion.
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Limited skips
Pandora makes it very difficult by limiting your playlist to only a specific song or artist. The player also does not allow you to rewind or repeat any songs. You are only granted six skips per station per hour, and even this is limited to 72 skips per user per day. This is often frustrating if you are trying to focus your playlist on a very specific music selection.
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Available on mobile and in vehicles
Pandora has an application on all major mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, and WP7. In addition, it is available in numerous vehicles as an add-on, many with voice commands.
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Rips artists off
Only Youtube pays artists less than Pandora. Spotify has been under fire for not paying artists enough, at $0.0044 / play (as of march 2018). Well, Pandora pays less than 3 times that! ($0.0013). Tidal pays artists roughly 10 times more ($0.0125).
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Predicts what you like with great accuracy
Pandora's music genome algorithms are eerily accurate to the point where it can be considered a personal DJ.
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Frequent advertisements
The free version of Pandora has frequent audio advertisements that are injected every few songs, making the service impossible to use in a party-type setting. However, these can be avoided by paying for the premium edition or by using other ad-blocking software.
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Free
Being available for free means anyone can try the service in order to see if it appeals.
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Limited artists
There are only 1 million songs on the service. This means there are a lot of artists missing.
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It's the digital version of that friend that knows music better than you and also knows what you will like
A go to source when you want to hear something new that you will like.
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Premium Streaming
Premium is just like any other paid streaming service for the same amount. It does the same things and has a a comparable library. With the personalized radio it makes it a force that is often overlooked.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows Phone
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
192kbs AAC
Offline Download:
Yes
Playlist Sharing:
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Spotify
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Huge collection of music and fast access to newly released songs
Spotify has over 20 million songs and arguably the largest collection out of its competitors and usually has the fastest access to new music. The Spotify desktop client allows local music files to be imported with the option of syncing with a mobile device which largely mitigates the issue of missing artists.
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Free account have lots of ads
If you hate commercials, you would buy Premium or go on using something else.
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Related artists
Helps to find new authors based on your previous picks
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Discovery is terrible
The discovery algorithm is poor and does not learn fast enough. Not obvious how to train it.
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Curated playlists
Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music.
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Poor audio quality
There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad.
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Client's functionality can be extended via third-party apps
Spotify desktop client allows for third-party apps. They extend the functionality of Spotify and many of them offer new ways of discovering music. Noteworthy apps include Moodagent, Last.fm, Swarm.fm, ShareMyPlaylists, The Hype Machine, We Are Hunted, Shuffler.fm.
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Has a free version
A free, ad-supported account allows streaming from an extensive library of music.
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Weekly Discover playlist uses a great algorithm
A playlist generated by Spotify based on your listening habits and released every Monday. The algorithm used by this playlist is great and stands out from its competitors.
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Platforms:
Web; Android; iOS; Linux; Windows; MacOS
Playlist Sharing:
Yes
User-Created Playlists:
Yes
Offline download:
Yes
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Google Play Music
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Free no advertisements
Google Play Music is a free service for storing and streaming ones library that has zero advertisements in the interface as well as the playing music.
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Confusing to use
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Instant mixes
Google Play Music can make smart recommendations for playlist by the user just picking an artist or song they want recommendations formed from.
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No folder support
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Also offers streaming service
GPM can be used as a normal music player but also as a streaming service like Spotify.
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Want credit card info before using "free" service
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Plays from any source
Plays local music as well as from DLNA sources, so I can play from my home servers as well.
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Status bar not sensitive nor customizable
There is no way to go easily go back a specific amount of time (for example: Audible has a button that allows you to go back 30 seconds). The status bar could be more time specific. If you want to go back to a particular segment of listening, there is no way to know exactly where you will land. You have to do some kind of guessing and it is annoying. Lot of time wasted in searching in a blind manner.
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Upload library through browser
Google has added the option of uploading songs through the browser with the help of a Chrome extension download as well as directly through the desktop Chrome app.
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Quality only as high as 320kbps MP3s
There is no option to listen to lossless music, even if that is what the user has uploaded. The highest quality is 320kbps MP3s. If a lossless track has been uploaded and the user then downloads the track at a later date the file will also only be a 320kbps MP3.
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No way to start the app in ones library
The app offers no way to actually start up in ones library, either in the desktop Chrome app or the Android app. For those that only use this app for listening to their purchased or uploaded music this is pretty annoying as there s no real need for the front page of recommendations and activity. This doe snot necessarily need to be some social platform but just a way to listen to ones music, really the user should have the choice, especially if they are paying for this service through purchased music or their streaming service.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android, Wear OS
Free tier:
Yes
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
320kbs MP3
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Yes
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Digitally Imported [DI.fm]
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You have to sign up
You can listen to DI.fm for half an hour before you're asked to sign up for a free account.
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Dozens of genre-specific channels
DI.fm currently lists 89 distinct channels, each representing a different sub-genre of electronic music.
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Advertizements with the free account
If you have a free account, the music stream is interrupted fairly often (every few songs) suggesting you upgrade to a pro account.
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Cross-platform
DI.fm has apps for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows phone.
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Occasionally the channels won't connect
Every once in a while, the channels won't connect and you have to wait some time and try again.
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Electronic only
DI.fm is electronic-music only, so you'll be limited to exploring within that genre.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows Phone
Price:
$8/mo
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Yes
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320k
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Qobuz
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High quality streaming
Music streams at 16 bit, 44.4 khz, Flac, CD Quality. Also, high-res is available.
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Officially available in a limited number of countries
Qobuz is only officially available in 10 countries (which does not include Canada and the US). You can use a VPN in order to pay for the service in an unsupported country. Some users have mentioned success with contacting the country and being added manually (you can read more here).
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High quality (CD+) streams; subscribers gain access to booklet, when available
Metadata, while better than many, still can't compete with physical media. New to N.A. at the time of this review so there are still some gaps in their catalog.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X (macOS)
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$14.99 Mo or $149.99 yr Studio premier / $249.99/yr Sublime+
Free tier:
30 days trial
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320 Kbps MP3/ 16-bit 44.1 kHz FLAC/ 24-bit ≤192 kHz FLAC (Studio/Sublime+)
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Last.fm
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Supports a wide range of platforms, music players and browsers
Last.fm scrobbles music from wide range of devices and music players, not just from official apps such as Scrobbler for Windows and Mac, Scrobbler for iOS, Last.fm for Android and Last.fm for Spotify, but also a wide range of 3rd party Last.fm apps that are available on many platforms, built using the official Last.fm API such as ScrobbleMe for Windows Phone, Simple Last.fm Scrobbler for Android, Last.fm Scrobbler for Chrome, FoxyScrobbler for Firefox and the built-in Last.fm scrobbling in Deezer.
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Lack of compositions
The most popular are there, but forget about something unique.
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Scrobbling
Last.fm checks what you listen to the most, they're calling it scrobbling, and streams songs based on that information. It works via your computer, smartphone, iPod and other music services.
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There is no one-time life subscription
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Last.fm Tag/Artist radio
Play songs similar to "X" from Youtube.
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Low audio quality
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, Android
Price:
$3/mo
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
128kbs
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Deezer Music
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Available to customers living outside the US
The Deezer music streaming service is available in 182 countries. There are 192 countries on this world, which means Deezer is available in all but 10 countries.
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Doesn't pay artists enough
Deezer pays artists significantly less than other similar services. As of March 2018 it was paying $0.0064 / play, less than Apple Music and Google Play, half as much as Tidal ($0.0125). Not as bad as Spotify or Pandora, but could certainly do better.
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Huge collection of music
The Deezer music streaming service has more than 73 million songs, which makes Deezer one of the largest music catalogs available now.
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Sometimes skipped songs occurred
Some songs skipped even if you are a premium user.
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Built-in lyrics
Deezer comes with a lyrics feature where users can see the lyrics when the selected track is playing.
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No settings to configure “Flow” to work as advertised
Flow is a great idea, but it fails to work as suggested. The idea is it listens to what you like and adds suggestion tracks. But mostly it just plays your track over and over, and pops in a random track, usually nothing you like. They need settings and better algorithms for it to work.
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Personalised radio
The Deezer music streaming service offers a radio-like service called Flow which plays random music based on your favorites.
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No Linux client
Compared to Spotify it has no native Linux client available.
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Outstanding CD quality (with Elite Service)
For those that subscribe to the Elite Service ($19.99/mo), the bitrate is hi-def CD-quality 1,411kbps at 16/44.1 kHz.
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Can only listen to 30 second song clips without a subscription
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Available on a large number of platforms
Deezer (with a premium subscription) is available on a wide range of devices such as those running Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, smart TV and a web app. You can see the full list here.
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A lot of songs are cut at the end
Many songs are not played until final chords, and many others are of very low quality records, showing audio distortions. This is frustrating.
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Great choice of Musi Mixes
You can download mixes and save.
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Can download and play selected music offine
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Inbuilt music ID feature
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Add your MP3
You can import an MP3 file to listen as a normal song and add it to your playlists.
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Browser Deezer
If you use Deezer on PC you don't need to download it, as the web version is the same as the desktop app.
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Also for podcasts
Deezer has started to include podcasts in 2015 for a few countries, and has since expanded it to all countries and with a dedicated section offering 160K podcasts.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Windows Phone
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320 kbps MP3 (Premium) / 1411 kbps FLAC (HiFi)
Algorithmic Radio:
Yes
Free Plan Audio Quality:
128 kbps MP3
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TIDAL
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Amazing quality
The Tidal music streaming service has a maximum streaming quality of 1,411Kbps bit rate with FLAC-formatted lossless files. This is quite an upgrade compared to most music streaming services, which go at about 320Kbps bit rate.
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Songs may take some time to load
the Tidal music streaming service may take up to 10 seconds of buffering to load and play a song, sometimes even stopping a song mid-way to buffer.
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Pays artists more
As of March 2018, TIDAL pays the artists 2/3 more than Apple Music and 3 times more than Spotify, for an equivalent catalog and subscription price. (40M songs on TIDAL and Apple Music vs. 30M on Spotify, $9.99/mo for all 3). Napster is the only service that pays the artists more than TIDAL.
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No free tier
The Tidal music streaming service has no free tier available. Only a 7-day trial. While the trial is helpful for learning what the service has to offer, it may not allow for a complete picture due to the time limit.
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Discounted student subscription
Tidal offers a 50% discount on monthly subscriptions for students with a valid university email account.
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Offline isn’t offline and mobile data is consumed in one song
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Awsome desktop app
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Hi-FI Can be expensive for some
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Built-in audio search
The Tidal music streaming service mobile app has a built-in audio search, similar to Shazaam and Soundhound.
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Military/veteran discount a BIG plus
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Get one-month free Hi-Fi (FLAC, 24-bit music)
Almost all if not most songs are 24-bit FLAC files, "Master" is an ever higher quality
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Platforms:
Web (Chrome only for HiFi), iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS
Number of songs available:
~60M
Offline download:
Yes
HiFi (9.99 US/Month):
Up to 1411 kbps FLAC/ALAC (HiFi)
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Apple Music
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Sleek interface
iTunes has a flat, clean design with playback controls at the top-left, search at top-right and a row of ways to categorize available media beneath that. Plus it can be minimized to take up much less space. The minimized interface is called the MiniPlayer and it can be set to display on top of all other windows. It's possible to show iTunes on top of all other windows when playing movies as well.
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No free plan
While there's a three month free trial that lets you test out features of the service, Apple Music is a subscription-only deal. There's no ad-supported free version or anything like that.
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Syncs across devices
iTunes can synchronize playback information, podcast subscriptions & settings and automatically download purchases made on other devices.
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Poor audio quality compared to other services
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iTunes Store has a huge selection of media
iTunes has a huge catalog of videos, songs, and podcasts in the iTunes store.
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Heavyweight
Appears to get bigger and bigger with each update, without really adding more value to someone who just wants to listen to and organize music.
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Playlists created by people
The Apple Music streaming service focuses on playlists selected by curators rather than intelligent radios in other streaming services. Choosing playlists selected by the curators improves the experience with another method of music discovery. Of course you can still heart or disheart any song on your own to improve the service's suggestions in the For You section.
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The mobile app is known to crash from time to time
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Family sharing for up to six devices
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Buggy iTunes app
Immediately after the launch of Apple Music worldwide with the release of the iTunes 12.2, once users upgrade to the latest version of iTunes, many users experienced issues with music list being mixed up, wrong metadata etc.
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Siri integration in a music streaming service
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Some albums have missing tracks / artists have missing albums
Due to copyright issues some albums on the service have tracks missing or some artists on the service have albums missing, which begs the question, why list the album if it is not complete.
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Internet radio
iTunes includes a streaming music service called Radio that creates stations based on chosen genre, song or artist. Requires Apple ID to access.
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Mediocre algorithms
Apple Music's algorithms are not very helpful if you are trying to find more music.
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Airplay support
iTunes allows streaming audio to all Airplay enabled devices within Wi-Fi range. It's possible to select more than one device to play a song at the same time.
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Poor UI
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Beats 1 Internet radio offers a shared audio experience
Beats 1 is a 24-hour radio station station run by Apple. It is hosted Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga.
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Doesn't pay artists a fair price
As of march 2018, Apple Music paid the artists $0.0074 per count. That's better than Spotify ($0.0044) and slightly more than Google Play ($0.0068) but way less than Tidal ($0.0125) or Napster ($0.019).
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Built-in parental controls
iTunes parental controls can be used to deny access to certain parts of iTunes such as podcasts, internet radio, store or shared libraries and restrict access to media that has a certain rating or warnings.
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It changes the default artwork of your music
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Connect feature allows closer communication with musicians
Musicians post on the Apple Music streaming service about news, ideas, new music etc. You can engage with them directly on the site.
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Confusing onboarding process
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Great podcast integration
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Apple Music has in some situations deleted user's local files
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Lossless at no additional cost
Includes streaming lossless formats as part of the basic subscription.
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Requires an Apple device
Apple products are expensive as hell, and you can't use Apple music without one or iTunes.
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Dynamic Crossfade
When crossfade is set to automatic, its length changes based on what's playing to keep the flow between songs.
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Programmed DJ Sessions
DJ sets can be listened to like it’s a set.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Windows, macOS,
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
Lossless ALAC up to 192KHz/24-bit
Algorithmic Radio:
Yes
Number of songs available:
~90M
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Upbeat
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No record label influence
Upbeat has no promotion deals, everything is decided by the community.
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Upload songs via SoundCloud
You can link songs that have been uploaded on SoundCloud.
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Community curated
Select a genre and vote on what you like alongside other people.
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Hype Machine
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Pros
4
Cons
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Scrapes almost 800 blogs
Hype Machine looks at content of hundreds of blogs and ranks songs by how often they are mentioned on these blogs.
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Not personalized
Music recommendations don't take your tastes into account, meaning this feed just shows what's trending on blogs in your country / in the genre you filtered by. This means you get a lot of false positives if your tastes aren't mainstream.
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In-depth tags system
The music's tagged based on genres, location, blogs, novelty and other miscellaneous information.
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Cross-platform
In addition to being available on the web, Hype Machine can be accessed via mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone & BlackBerry, through Spotify, using OS X & Windows clients and on Sonos.
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Personalized
Contrary to what is said in the Cons, one can personalize Hype Machine to the prefered music style. This can be done by following specific blogs writing on this style, then one will have newly discovered artists in one's feed. And it works pretty well, you can discover dozens of bands like this and buy their albums afterwards.
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Slacker Radio
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10
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Pros
7
Cons
2
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Curated music streaming service
Actual human beings take time to decide what should be played, and on what stations. Sometimes people curating these stations are professional DJs who have experience in curating music content. This makes the music streaming service feel much more organic.
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UI is too focused on social media
About half of the UI wastes space on social media info posted by Slacker Radio hosts and DJs. Basically advertisements (but different from their regular advertisements), but in a social media setting.
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Large music library
Offering such a large library ensures there is enough music of different kinds to appeal to anyone.
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Rather intrusive ads
While it's understandable that the free tier will have ads, between video, audio and banners, they can be quite intrusive.
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Algorithmically generated stations
Stations are created based on an artist, album or track. Slacker then recommends tracks to the user who can either upvote or downvote them, and Slacker will follow suit and recommend tracks considering how the user voted.
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Low cost subscription
There's a mid-tier subscription of only $3.99 and a full subscription of $9.99
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Works on a large number of platforms
Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry are all platforms that Slacker will work on.
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Streams for free on T-Mobile
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Allows downloading stations locally
Easily save music for offline use by downloading the tracks that you enjoy.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone
Price:
$3.99-$9.99/mo
Free tier:
Yes
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
320kbs
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Earbits
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3
Cons
3
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Paid for by the artists, not the users
The Earbits music streaming service has an interesting business model that allows the service to be complete free (and ad free) to listeners. Some musicians pay for added profile features or other different tools that aids in exposure for them. See the full explanation here.
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No app in other countries
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Great way to discover indie musicians
The Earbits music streaming service is open to independent artists only and does a great job of helping you discover lesser known music.
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Underdeveloped
Some areas of the service are lacking in polish and design. The user profiles are pretty sparse, making it difficult to customize. Navigation can be a bit unintuitive at times, which makes it a pain to browse the site. There are also issues with playback as well, adding up to many unpolished areas that leaves the user wanting.
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Available on Android, iOS and Chrome
Easily use the app on your preferred platform, as it supports Android, iOS as well as Chrome.
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Limited to independent artists
You won't find much of the Top 40 type music on Earbits as it's limited to independent musicians currently.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android
Free tier:
Yes
Offline download:
No
Top labels:
Indie
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TuneIn Radio
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3
Experiences
Pros
2
Cons
1
Top
Pro
Free version available
TuneIn Radio offers a free version of it's app with limited functionality.
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Free version has in app purchases
Ranging from $0.99-$9.99 the free version includes in app purchases that unlock extra features for the app.
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Does more than just podcasts
TuneIn Radio offers many different listening options inclusing AM/FM, Internet Radio and Podcasts. So while it does make a good podcast client, it also has more functionality than just a standard podcast player app.
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Spiff Radio
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3
Experiences
Pros
3
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Pro
social
You can create an account to save your favorite tracks & tracklists; and create new ones
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open source
Spiff is powered by WP Soundsystem, an open source Wordpress plugin, and has a Github repo. Which means that YOU can help develop it !
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discover new music
lot of tracklists & radios to dig into
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Mixcloud
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8
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Pros
4
Cons
3
Specs
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Wide & varied content
There is a massive and varied range of content across many styles, genres & vintages all easily found via tags and particularly effective recommendations.
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Ads even in paid Pro account
Free and Pro Accounts put ads in your content. If you don't want ads, you have to pay 6.99 USD/mo for the Premium account.
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Totally Free
You're free to listen and upload as much as you like, unlike Soundcloud.
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Engagement tools just for paid accounts
If you want to grow and monitor your audience in the platform, you'll need to sign the Pro account, which costs $15/month or $135/year.
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Sound Quality
Music sounds crisp and punchy when streaming/playback (if you're using quality headphones/speakers).
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Data charges by surprise
Watch out for those data charges if you're on the move.
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Friendly Interface
It's easy to use the simple and beautiful platform, unlike the Archive.org.
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Specs
Platforms:
Web, Android, iOS, Desktop
Price:
Premium $6.99/mo - $69.99/yr | Pro: $15/mo - $135/yr
Free tier:
Partial
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