Apple Music or Spotify

stoke1863 · 2 Oct 2016 at 14:04

Why not Google Play Music? The Family plan is great value

G-MAN2004 · 2 Oct 2016 at 15:46

Am I the only one that stills transfers music onto my phone?

Rifte · 2 Oct 2016 at 16:47

Apple music has been improved somewhat IMO with the recent IOS push.

Spotify is still better though.

Pawnless Endgame · 2 Oct 2016 at 18:44

Any thoughts on Amazon Prime?

Only used Spotify here, but I'm on a Family & Friends subscription with 2 others, so only paying £5/month. I like the dark interface too, as I over-ride my browser anyway to show white-on-black across the web.

Rexxar · 2 Oct 2016 at 19:16

Another vote for Spotify, Mostly because I get it as part of my phone package now, but was a Premium subscriber before that. It's reliable and most of what i want to listen to is on there.

Marky · 2 Oct 2016 at 19:32

G-MAN2004 said:
Am I the only one that stills transfers music onto my phone?

Yep! Freakin' Hipster

Rifte said:
Apple music has been improved somewhat IMO with the recent IOS push.

Spotify is still better though.

I agree that it's a little better, but it's definitely still not up to scratch - I'm back using Spotify, and it's perfect

Pawnless Endgame · 2 Oct 2016 at 21:05

G-MAN2004 said:
Am I the only one that stills transfers music onto my phone?

Yeah G-Man still copies his CDs onto tape via Mummy's hi-fi so that he can play them on his Walkman. Don't forget the double A batteries.

Marky said:
Yep! Freakin' Hipster

And what Marky said

G-MAN2004 · 2 Oct 2016 at 21:14

But what do you do when you're on a train and there's no 4G? Which is usually most of the time when I'm on them!

Rexxar · 2 Oct 2016 at 21:19

G-MAN2004 said:
But what do you do when you're on a train and there's no 4G? Which is usually most of the time when I'm on them!

Spotify Premium lets you download to Listen Off-Line . Only reason i got it initially was because i switched to commuting by Tube and not Overland.

G-MAN2004 · 2 Oct 2016 at 21:32

Ah, fair enough! That's pretty decent actually.

Marky · 2 Oct 2016 at 21:43

To be fair... I still have to add B-Sides and other unknown tracks myself

But otherwise, I just drag all the music into one playlist, hit "Download" on the playlist, and all my music is available offline

kona786 · 2 Oct 2016 at 22:31

can you download spotify music to an sd card rather than a phones internal storage?

I have just started using Spotify properly a few days ago (premium thanks to half price discount - used wife's school email address, teacher). Love it.

HungryHippos · 2 Oct 2016 at 22:33

stoke1863 said:
Why not Google Play Music? The Family plan is great value

I read into this, the Google Play Music subscription seems to do weird things with app purchases for the other Google accounts.

Google Play Music does let you upload up to 50000 songs of your own for free though, which is decent if you don't want to pay anything.

I use a student priced Spotify for £4.99 a month. It's worth that to me, I don't use it all the time, I'd not use it enough to warrant the £9.99 a month cost really.

Junglist · 6 Oct 2016 at 11:42

Apple music and Amazon Prime for me. Covers most bases.

Jono · 6 Oct 2016 at 11:50

kona786 said:
can you download spotify music to an sd card rather than a phones internal storage?

I have just started using Spotify properly a few days ago (premium thanks to half price discount - used wife's school email address, teacher). Love it.

Yeah you can tell it which storage to use

kona786 · 1 Nov 2016 at 20:16

Jono said:
Yeah you can tell it which storage to use

Thanks.

So much love for Spotify!

sparkymark75 · 5 Nov 2016 at 18:13

I got a free subscription for Deezer a couple of years ago when I got some Sonos Play 1s. It's basically just the same as Spotify but if you have Sonos gear, you get an exclusive FLAC streaming service.

Rimsy · 5 Nov 2016 at 22:56

Mrs is on Spotify, I'm on Google music. For metal at least Google is the better choice- way more obscure stuff than Spotify but not necessarily the case for all genres.

kona786 · 13 Nov 2016 at 15:08

http://arstechnica.co.uk/informatio...sed-users-storage-drives/?comments=1&start=40

Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives
Streaming used by 40 million writes hundreds of gigabytes of junk data per day.

update here - Spotify 1.0.42.151

http://www.filehorse.com/download-spotify/

Rifte · 16 Nov 2016 at 07:41

Still a spotify fan, but the Apple Music cost in Asia for a family package is tiny, so its my default now.

The only downside is that most of the streams and the radio stuff is Bollywood songs! The content though is the same as the UK one though.