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Which one do you use and why?

Been trying all of them of late.

Deezer runs a promotion for premium which is £1 for 3 months then £10 a month
Spotify is a free month and £10 a month
Qobuz is £10 month for the full equivalent package. or £20 for lossless FLAC streaming.


Qobuz, spotify and Deezer claim 320kbps if you pay for premium but their is little evidence to support this and without the equipment it's hard to test and confirm.

Qobuz offers Lossless 16bit 44.1khz if you have their Hi-FI package and their desktop app.


Please advise if you use something else too
 
Used to use Spotify and now use Deezer Premium+ which is currently only £5 a month.

Audio wise I cannot notice much difference, but I just generally prefer Deezer. I like their 'Flow' button where is just plays random tracks from other artists based upon my albums. Plus is just runs from a webpage on my PC without needing an app.
 
Deezer is the cheapest in my experience, it also has the most tracks (50mil vs 40mil).

Most Deezer tracks are about 320kbps to my ears, when comparing to 320kpbs tracks in my own music library.
 
PapaLazaru said:
I like their 'Flow' button where is just plays random tracks from other artists based upon my albums. Plus is just runs from a webpage on my PC without needing an app.
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Spotify has both those features now.

Using Spotify myself but mostly thats due to them happening to have a fairly substantial catalog of the type of music I listen to and a large number of the tracks are in atleast 320kbit type quality. There are some that definitly aren't but so far thats been by far the minority but that might depend a bit on what type of music you listen (dunno).

One thing I really like about Spotify is the discover feature - don't use it all that often but when I'm tired of my normal music its not failed so far to find something I'd like that either I might have missed or is something to my taste.
 
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Personally Spotify...

The free version though (tight one me and I can stand the occasional ad).

It's simple to use, I like the interface on the laptop & mobile device and as already noted the discover part is great too.

It just works.
 
I mostly use free version of Spotify on my tablet (mobile is not limited) - great for hunting down hard to find old tracks :)
 
Rroff said:
Spotify has both those features now.

Using Spotify myself but mostly thats due to them happening to have a fairly substantial catalog of the type of music I listen to and a large number of the tracks are in atleast 320kbit type quality. There are some that definitly aren't but so far thats been by far the minority but that might depend a bit on what type of music you listen (dunno).

One thing I really like about Spotify is the discover feature - don't use it all that often but when I'm tired of my normal music its not failed so far to find something I'd like that either I might have missed or is something to my taste.
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Odd I hate the discover feature on spotify i find it irritating + it suggests things i have in playlists they aren't helping me discover anything.

Or it suggests really odd things that dont really follow my style.

the Flow feature and radio feature on deezer are much more my thing but then again I haven't had my deezer account for aslogn as i have my spotify so it may just be infected by the 3 years of abuse it had when we used it in our technical department.
 
Discover (and playlist radio) features don't really work if more than 1 person has used the spotify account much.
 
yes i figured that may play a part it just makes me chuckle when it says things like you listened to nofx, perhaps you'd like "insert fat wreck chords band from the same era here"
 
Deezer, I get it with my phone package (Orange/EE)

Offline mode when I am out and about though, munches through my data if I leave it in online mode.
 
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