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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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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
Free tier:
Yes
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
320k
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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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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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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)
Price:
$14.99 Mo or $149.99 yr Studio premier / $249.99/yr Sublime+
Free tier:
30 days trial
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
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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128kbs
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Hype Machine
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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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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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Web, Android, iOS, Windows Phone
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
192kbs AAC
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Yes
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Songza
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Music based on mood or event
Songza will ask a series of questions to deduce what kind of playlist you should listen to.
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Playlists by music experts
What Songza calls “Concierge” is a service that will offer pre-made playlists created by music experts.
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Easy to use
The interface is super-simple and easy to understand.
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Free
Songza is free to use.
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No audio ads
There are no audio advertisements, only website banners.
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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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Web (Chrome only for HiFi), iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS
Number of songs available:
~60M
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Yes
HiFi Plus (19.99 US/Month) :
Up to 9216 kbps (MQA, Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio
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8 Tracks
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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.
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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.
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Advertisements in free version
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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.
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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.
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Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone
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64kbs AAC+
Offline Download:
No
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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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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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Poor audio quality
There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad.
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Curated playlists
Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music.
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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:
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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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Web, iOS, Android, Wear OS
Free tier:
Yes
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320kbs MP3
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Reddit's /r/kpop
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Find artists before they get famous
Many artists, such a Crayon Pop, gain popularity on Reddit before they're even picked up by a major label.
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Find new music before it even hits the charts
Users submit videos as they come out, often before they've even gained enough popularity to make it onto the charts.
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Very active community
Links to new music videos are posted daily.
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