19 best alternatives to Earbits as of 2018 - Slant

Last.fm

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Low audio quality

Top Pro

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. See More

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Last.fm Tag/Artist radio

Play songs similar to "X" from Youtube. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android

Paid Plan Audio Quality:128kbs

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Slacker Radio

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Rather intrusive ads

While it's understandable that the free tier will have ads, between video, audio and banners, they can be quite intrusive. See More

Top Pro

Large music library

Offering such a large library ensures there is enough music of different kinds to appeal to anyone. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Low cost subscription

There's a mid-tier subscription of only $3.99 and a full subscription of $9.99 See More

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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. See More

Top Pro

Works on a large number of platforms

Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry are all platforms that Slacker will work on. See More

Top Pro

Streams for free on T-Mobile

Top Pro

Allows downloading stations locally

Easily save music for offline use by downloading the tracks that you enjoy. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Price:$3.99-$9.99/mo

Paid Plan Audio Quality:320kbs

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Mixcloud

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

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Totally Free

You're free to listen and upload as much as you like, unlike Soundcloud. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Sound Quality

Music sounds crisp and punchy when streaming/playback (if you're using quality headphones/speakers). See More

Top Con

Data charges by surprise

Watch out for those data charges if you're on the move. See More

Top Pro

Friendly Interface

It's easy to use the simple and beautiful platform, unlike the Archive.org. See More

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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Digitally Imported [DI.fm]

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Dozens of genre-specific channels

DI.fm currently lists 89 distinct channels, each representing a different sub-genre of electronic music. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

DI.fm has apps for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows phone. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Con

Electronic only

DI.fm is electronic-music only, so you'll be limited to exploring within that genre. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Android, iOS, Windows Phone

Paid Plan Audio Quality:320k

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Amazon Music Unlimited

Top Pro

Great web app

This service's web app works really well. See More

Top Con

Rips artists off

Amazon pays artists even less than Spotify! Per count, as of march 2018 Amazon paid $0.0040, Spotify $0.0044, Apple Music $0.0074 and Tidal $0.0125. See More

Top Pro

Discount for prime customers

Prime customers get a discount on the service. See More

Top Con

Clunky desktop app

This service's desktop app is clunky and nowhere near as nice as its web client. See More

Top Pro

Possible to transfer purchased music between devices with no limitations

Purchased music can be downloaded and transfered to other music players/file storage devices. See More

Top Pro

Mobile applications available

Mobile applications for Android and iOS. See More

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Supports uploading custom tracks

Upload your own music files with the option to buy more storage if you have more than the limit. See More

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Great recommendations

The built-in recommendations feature is great, since it uses both content purchased from Amazon and streamed music to calculate new suggestions. See More

Top Pro

Desktop client

Desktop client for Mac and Windows. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS

Price:$7.99/month (Prime) / $9.99/month (non-Prime)

Free tier:Only available to current Prime subscribers and has a significantly smaller catalog

Paid Plan Audio Quality:256 kbps AAC

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Pandora

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Free

Being available for free means anyone can try the service in order to see if it appeals. See More

Top Con

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). See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Limited artists

There are only 1 million songs on the service. This means there are a lot of artists missing. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Android, iOS, Windows Phone

Paid Plan Audio Quality:192kbs

Offline Download:Yes

Other Platforms:Sonos, Roku, Direct TV, Playstation, FiOS TV, Pebble Watch, TiVo, Chromecast, Amazon Echo, Apple TV

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Google Play Music

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Confusing to use

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Also offers streaming service

GPM can be used as a normal music player but also as a streaming service like Spotify. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android, Wear OS

Paid Plan Audio Quality:320 kbps AAC

Offline Download:Yes

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Deezer Music

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Huge collection of music

The Deezer music streaming service has more than 40 million songs, which makes Deezer one of the largest music catalogs available now. See More

Top Con

Sometimes skipped songs occurred

Some songs skipped even if you are a premium user. See More

Top Pro

Built-in lyrics

Deezer comes with a lyrics feature where users can see the lyrics when the selected track is playing. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

Personalised radio

The Deezer music streaming service offers a radio-like service called Flow which plays random music based on your favorites. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

Great choice of Musi Mixes

You can download mixes and save. See More

Top Pro

Inbuilt music ID feature

Specs

Platforms:Web, Android, iOS, Windows Phone

Paid Plan Audio Quality:320 kbps MP3 (Premium) / 1411 kbps FLAC (HiFi)

Algorithmic Radio:Yes

Offline download:Yes

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SoundCloud

Top Pro

Subscribe to artists

You can subscribe to artists to be notified the instant they upload a new song or give an update. See More

Top Con

Interface is full of bugs

The SoundCloud website has tons of problems, including issues with notifications, favorites, and uploading sounds. See More

Top Pro

Recommendations

Links to related music, based on what you're listening to, can be found in the sidebar. See More

Top Con

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.) See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

Pre-releases

Some music labels, especially newer ones, release on SoundCloud before anywhere else. See More

Top Pro

Creative Commons filter

SoundCloud allows for finding music that is licensed under Creative Commons. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Android, Desktop, Sonos, Windows Phone

Free tier:Partial

Paid Plan Audio Quality:Good

Offline Download:Premium (partial)

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Youtube

Top Pro

Large catalog of music

Huge variety of music to pick from including rare recordings, covers, mixes, etc. See More

Top Con

Lots of ads unless you buy a subscription

There are lots of ads on YouTube, even in the middle of long songs. Some of them can be skipped, however others cannot. Most of the time ads are only displayed between songs. See More

Top Pro

Community created mixes and remixes

Because anybody can upload to YouTube, it has content from remixes of popular songs to hour long mixes and everything in-between. Much of this content can't be found on other music streaming services. See More

Top Con

Rips artists off

YouTube pays artists $0.0007 / play, which is less than 6 times what Spotify pays ($0.0044), and Spotify itself is criticized for ripping artists off. See More

Top Pro

Really good suggestions

YouTube has some of the best suggestions around. Almost all of the suggestions are similar to the song you're currently playing, and allow for an endless music streaming service. See More

Top Con

Confusing service for music

There is a Youtube Music app, which allows one to stream music videos as well as just the studio audio versions of songs. This feature is not accessible on the Youtube website, or the regular Youtube app. In order to get ad free service on the site as well as the music app, ones needs to subscribe to Youtube Red for $9.99 a month. This nets the user features, such as Youtube (Google) created movies and videos as well as a way to save musical playlists for offline use, but only in the Youtube Music app. This makes for a confusing and fragmented service that requires using multiple apps, a website, and a subscription to a paid service that encompasses much more than just music, in order to get the full use out of music on Youtube. See More

Top Pro

Multiple frontends available

There are Chrome extensions (UpNext, Streamus), webapps (The Parade) and even native desktop apps (Atraci) that are all powered by Youtube. They provide additional functionality and convenience on top of what Youtube already offers. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Chrome OS

Offline download:Premium (Partial)

Top labels:WMG, UMG, SME

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8 Tracks

Top Pro

Individualistic and personalized user playlists

The site is human-curated not automated. This can give a more personal feel, as each playlist on the music streaming service has been curated by a user. See More

Top Con

Advertisements in free version

Top Pro

Great for discovering new music

Due to how the service works, listening to user created playlists allows for pretty good discovery of new or undiscovered bands. See More

Top Con

No way to find certain songs

8 Tracks allows you to search for a playlist based on keywords, then requires you to listen to most of that playlist without skipping. As such, it's not so good for hunting down a specific song, but is great for discovering new music. See More

Top Con

Poor music streaming service outside of North America

8Tracks has changed its policy for how it supplies music to those outside of North America by not using any of their servers for those users. This change resulted in using Youtube for those users in order to still have a way to add songs to playlists. Sadly using Youtube results in many songs just disappearing and many playlists becoming defunct. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Paid Plan Audio Quality:320kbs

Offline Download:No

Algorithmic Radio:No

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Spotify

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Free account have lots of ads

If you hate commercials, you would buy Premium or go on using something else. See More

Top Pro

Curated playlists

Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music. See More

Top Con

Discovery is terrible

The discovery algorithm is poor and does not learn fast enough. Not obvious how to train it. See More

Top Pro

Has a free version

A free, ad-supported account allows streaming from an extensive library of music. See More

Top Con

Poor audio quality

There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad. See More

Top Pro

Related artists

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web; Android; iOS; Linux; Windows; MacOS

Paid Plan Audio Quality:320 kbps Ogg Vorbis

Algorithmic Radio:Yes

Playlist Sharing:Yes

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TIDAL

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Expensive

At $19.99 per month, it's one of the most expensive streaming services out there (there is a cheaper subscription available at $9.99/month). See More

Top Pro

Built-in audio search

The Tidal music streaming service mobile app has a built-in audio search, similar to Shazaam and Soundhound. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Discounted student subscription

Tidal offers a 50% discount on monthly subscriptions for students with a valid university email account. See More

Top Con

Small music catalog

The music Catelog selection here is not that big. Other services have over 40 million songs. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web (Chrome only for HiFi), iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS

Paid Plan Audio Quality:320 kbps AAC (Premium) / 1411 kbps FLAC/ALAC (HiFi)

Offline download:Yes

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Groove Music

Top Pro

Available cross-platform

A Groove Music application is available for Windows 10, Xbox, Android, iOS and Windows Phone. There is also a web app that will open all of your music with a simple sign in. See More

Top Con

Poor music quality

Bitrate quality is not explicitly stated by Microsoft, but music is reported to be streamed at 192kbps WMA which is lower than most comparable streaming services. While music is downloaded at 256kbps WMA, an improvement but still lower than Google Play Music and Spotify. See More

Top Pro

Huge music library

Groove Music has a massive music library with over 40 million songs, more than Spotify, Tidal, Deezer and Google Play Music, See More

Top Con

Inconsistent updates to Android app

It's a lot better than it used to be, but the update cycle is a slow and painful process. See More

Top Pro

Integration with OneDrive

Groove Music integrates the music streaming service with OneDrive so that users can stream their own music files hosted in their OneDrive. See More

Top Con

No social network integration

This may be a huge pro or a con for different types of people. Groove Music does not offer comprehensive social integration like other music services such as Spotify. The only social feature Groove Music offers is the ability to a share a link to a song to Twitter, Facebook, or email. Groove Music will keep all your musical tastes strictly private unless you individually share it. See More

Top Pro

Modern UI design

The designs of each Groove Music application from the web application to the Windows Phone 8 application are all slightly different but they all share a modern and attractive design. Though the applications on iOS and Android are less appealing than on the other platforms. See More

Top Con

No song lyrics

Top Pro

Ability to request missing content

While other music streaming services simply suggest to contact the artist to add their music to their service, Groove Music allows you to easily file a request for missing content right from the Groove Music player. See More

Top Con

No family plan

Many other streaming services now offer a family plan, Groove is lagging behind. See More

Top Pro

Free music streaming on computers and tablets

The Groove Music web application and Windows 8/10 application offer free music streaming on demand or artist based radio stations with unlimited skips. Although there are occasional advertisements and after 6 months of use, free streaming is limited to 10 hours a month. See More

Top Con

No tablet specific app for iOS or Android

The exclusion of a tablet specific application leaves Android or iOS tablet users with an unoptimized feeling experience. See More

Top Pro

Over 92,000 music videos available with Groove Music Pass

Top Pro

Has monthly and yearly subscription plans

The Groove Music Pass offers unlimited on demand music and artist based radio stations with unlimited skips, no advertisements, and offline playback. A one month Groove Music Pass is $9.99 and (a better deal) a 12 month pass is $99.90. The 12 month pass is great for kids, those that do not want to pay for a continuous subscription, or those that do not want to use their credit card. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, iOS

Free tier:Free to stream user uploaded music

Selective downloading:Yes

Paid Plan Audio Quality:24/48 khz

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Apple Music

Top Pro

Syncs across devices

iTunes can synchronize playback information, podcast subscriptions & settings and automatically download purchases made on other devices. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Mediocre algorithms

Apple Music's algorithms are not very helpful if you are trying to find more music. See More

Top Pro

iTunes Store has a huge selection of media

iTunes has a huge catalog of videos, songs, and podcasts in the iTunes store. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

Family sharing for up to six devices

Top Con

Poor UI

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Some album have missing tracks / artists have missing album

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

No crossfade

There is no crossfade, or gapless playback, which is pretty useful for a party for example. See More

Top Pro

Siri integration in a music streaming service

Top Con

Requires an apple device

Apple products are expensive as hell, and you can't use Apple music without one or iTunes See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

It changes the default artwork of your music

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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). See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Apple Music has in some situations deleted user's local files

Top Pro

Great podcast integration

Top Con

The mobile app is known to crash from time to time

Top Con

Confusing onboarding process

Top Con

Apple Music is tied to iTunes

It is not tied to iTunes. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android, iOS, Windows, macOS

Paid Plan Audio Quality:256 kbps AAC

Algorithmic Radio:Yes

Offline download:Yes

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cmd.fm

Top Con

Limited genres

For the available genres the user can pick from, there are only so many listed. Any more fine grained controls of being able to play genres not listed is not supported. This means the eclectic and more niche genres can only be played by directly selecting the bands that play that style of music. See More

Top Pro

Easy music discovery

Just type in the command to play a particular genre you are interested in and it will play that style of music randomly. This allows for a way that you can discover new music you may not be familiar with. See More

Top Con

Only uses the Soundcloud music streaming service

There is no way to get other licensed music, you can only play what is available on the Soundcloud music streaming service. See More

Top Pro

Fun terminal-like interface

Using a terminal interface as the front end of the player is quite the unique twist for a music player on the web. It can be fun for those that are/aren't familiar with such an interface due to how original and easy it is. See More

Top Pro

Fast interactivity

A fast music service geared towards terminal users. The premise being, that you input specific "terminal" commands to listen to particular genres or artists. This can be a quick way of finding and playing music for those familiar with a terminal interface. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Chrome OS

Offline Download:No

Algorithmic Radio:No

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