Which music streaming service?

413x · 11 Jul 2019 at 09:18

So I've no experience with music streaming services apart from YouTube

The ads now have driven me to pay for a service. On YouTube (which I listen to at work via work wifi) there are now ads every single song.
Often 2.

Out of principle I almost don't want to pay for the ad removal from YouTube.

I only have 5gb data allowance on my phone so I guess I'd need the ability to download as well as stream.

Options and suggestions? Don't need video really.

Biz.Kid09 · 11 Jul 2019 at 09:27

Spotify is the best imo.

You can download whilst on Wi-Fi also to save playlists/albums and so forth to save your data.

If you can it may be worth looking into getting hte student pricing or the 'family pack' and sharing the cost £15 for 6 accounts with others. If you hunt around you can normally find 90 day trials etc so definitely give one a go first then can upgrade when your happy!

ic1male · 11 Jul 2019 at 09:33

I think if you have an iPhone, Apple Music is better - there seems to be songs that are on that service that are not on Spotify (and maybe vice versa). I think both of them have 30-90 day free trials of the premium service for new users.

It's really cool when you see an advert on the TV for blah blah album and you can go and download it right there and then.

mid_gen · 11 Jul 2019 at 11:22

Spotify family account shared with a few people is good value.

Spotify Connect is great, most modern amps support it, or you can use an echo dot or something.

glenimp617 · 11 Jul 2019 at 11:58

I have google music/youtube music, spotify and amazon

Spotify is much, MUCH better

Fortunately I get spotify included within my mobile package which I think is amazing value, but have to run google music as well to sync to my watch. Managed to get a student deal on it so £5 a month, but still annoying. Amazon comes with prime but it's a bit crap.

cheesyboy · 11 Jul 2019 at 12:02

TheOracle said:
Amazon comes with prime, and it's a bit crap

You only get Prime music with Prime. It's a limited service (1,000,000 tracks or something) - the full Amazon service is Amazon Music Unlimited. It's fine, I've got it - but I've not used any others so can't offer an informed recommendation.

Glanza · 11 Jul 2019 at 12:02

Spotify

413x · 11 Jul 2019 at 13:14

Cool, was kind of hoping consensus would be Spotify. My gf has it, so can just expand it to the family option and tack onto that.

neviditelny · 11 Jul 2019 at 21:30

Some providers also have that if you pay about £5 extra a month on your phone you can get Spotify so it doesn't count in your internet data as well. Think Vodafone does it if I remember right

413x · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:34

neviditelny said:
Some providers also have that if you pay about £5 extra a month on your phone you can get Spotify so it doesn't count in your internet data as well. Think Vodafone does it if I remember right

That's worth looking at of its full contract length! Thanks for this

robj20 · 12 Jul 2019 at 11:04

Deezer for me better sound quality and more songs than Spotify.

Temujin · 12 Jul 2019 at 15:42

Another +1 for Spotify, been on a student deal for ages (4.99 a month) and the new phone contract comes with 24 months of free premium so i'll be moving onto that shortly. There isn't a lot of music i want to listen to that isn't available, it does the job fine.

McGray · 12 Jul 2019 at 15:43

Spotify is king.

Bun the rest.

Hades · 12 Jul 2019 at 16:05

Spotify family for the win.

explicit4u · 12 Jul 2019 at 19:33

Deezer for sure. I’ve tried Apple Music, Spotify and deezer, deezer has been the one I’ve stuck with. Never struggle to find a song and it has all the features I need that other platforms offer.

I’m also with Three and have go binge so none of it comes out my data (applies to Apple Music too).

Trial them all and go with whatever you seem to stick to. If you listen to some hard to find music then go with the one that has the most content you’re after.

Pawnless Endgame · 12 Jul 2019 at 22:29

Another +1 for Spotify Family. One of my friends is the account holder, then me + one other friend pay him £5 standing order on the billing date. So we all effectively pay £5/month each, which makes it the same rate as Spotify Student.

Just a warning though, you can link Shazam with Spotify so that the Shazam'd tracks can be played in Spotify, BUT Spotify doesn't capture all of the Shazams. Sometimes you have the manually type what Shazam found into Spotify and then it will find the track ok for you. Occasionally that doesn't work either and that will be because the song isn't on Spotify at all.

Also very occasionally, a song that you knew and loved for years will disappear off Spotify (will show as greyed out!) It must be something to do with record labels not making the songs available any more. So yeah Spotify is far from perfect but it's still probably the best bet for cross-platform.

silverblack · 13 Jul 2019 at 00:04

Also in a family Spotify group,pay £30 for the year.

robj20 · 13 Jul 2019 at 06:14

explicit4u said:
Deezer for sure. I’ve tried Apple Music, Spotify and deezer, deezer has been the one I’ve stuck with. Never struggle to find a song and it has all the features I need that other platforms offer.

I’m also with Three and have go binge so none of it comes out my data (applies to Apple Music too).

Trial them all and go with whatever you seem to stick to. If you listen to some hard to find music then go with the one that has the most content you’re after.

I tried all of them for the free periods had quite a big playlist going on Deezer tried to transfer it to Spotify and a fair few it couldn't find on there, that was the first nail.
I stuck with it for a while but just didn't get on with Spotify.
Same with Amazon unlimited just didn't get on with it, the option for FLAC on Deezer was a huge bonus as well.

Dyson · 13 Jul 2019 at 07:11

Only one I don’t like is Google Play Music, Spotify is good, but prefer Apple Music personally.

jpaul · 13 Jul 2019 at 17:42

robj20 said:
the option for FLAC on Deezer was a huge bonus as well.

isn't deezer then £20p/m with flac .. the same as tidal
look like amazon may offer flac soon https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/26/hi-res-streaming-music/ beating apple music too.

.. but yes need download the OP is going to burn through 0.3GB per hour with flac 6-700kb/s, or half that with 320aac

I assume none of the mobile providers gives flac streaming for £5p/m that would be a deal