![]() While the layout may be considered too subjective to compare the two, I believe that it can make or break an app. All in all pricing-wise, because they have a wider variety of payment plans, I believe that Spotify wins this round. Additionally, Spotify’s student plan is one dollar cheaper than Apple Music’s $4.99 per month vs $5.99 per month respectively.Īpple Music, however, does offer a family plan for $14.99 for 6 accounts while Spotify offers the same deal for $15.99. Spotify also offers a joint “Duo” subscription plan for $12.99 per month for two accounts, a plan that Apple Music does not offer. And while the features of Spotify’s free version are far more limited, the option is available. But Spotify also offers a free version whereas Apple Music does not. Starting with pricing, both Apple Music and Spotify Premium have the same price of $9.99 per month, making them equally priced for ad-free listening. So that begs the question: which app is the better option? Soundcloud, Amazon Music, and even Pandora are all apps that provide a well-rounded selection of music, but the two most popular in my mind are Spotify and Apple Music. Spotify premium streams at 320 kbps and this gives better sound than AM (and louder as many users have noticed).In this day and age, pretty much the only way to listen to music is through streaming apps. But the bad thing is that it streams 256 kbps AAC stream. For non-apple devices AM streams AAC, a lossy version of the song (beause only apple devices can play ALAC codec). Both are independent of each other.Īnother big advantage of spotify over AM is if your end device is not an apple device. I haven't tried his, but I'm pretty sure that if you run AM on phone1 and on phone2, AM doesn't synchronize between the two phones. With AM if you quit the app, the song will stop playing. If you switch to phone 2, you will see the same song being played and the same information. Phone isn’t needed any more.Īnother difference is with spotify connect you can play a song from phone 1. With Connect, the phone tells the end device what to play and the spotify service running on the end devices goes and gets the stream directly from spotify server. The stream quality is highly dependent on your's phone's network connection. Primary difference is that with Airplay, the sound is being piped through the phone to the end device. For Spotify, you will most likely get much better quality sound from Connect. Spotify Connect devices all stream from the internet on their own. The main difference between them is Airplay streams data from the device you are using to the selected device. Your phone is just a dummy giving commands to the end device to select the tracks to be played. When you select a track in spotify app to play on your a device which has the DAC connected, the song data directly goes from the spotify's server to the end device. Spotify works very differently from airplay using AM. Don't know why this feature has gone.Ĭlick to expand.Bang on. Itunes had the feature to start from the song which was being played after you quit. Next day when I again open apple music, I go to last.fm to see the song that was being played yesterday. So in case I use apple music, I use last.fm to record what song was being played. The biggest reason I have stopped using apple music is because after carefully selecting the playlist and I start playing and quit the apple music, it totally looses the track that was being played. The music playback on the end device can be controlled from any device. But I prefer spotify because it has a better app. I have written about this issue in many of the posts and the internet is full of the mess that apple music is as of now. Even my macbook pro, macbook mini doesn't play lossless even though apple music app shows lossless logo. Apple TV is the worst possible method to hear music. Apple music is losless only if you connect an external dac to either an iphone or ipad through apple's proprietary cable known as CCK (camera connection kit).
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