If you turn on iCloud Music Library within Apple Music, you can access your personal library of tunes across all your devices (from the PC to the phone). Both offer early access to certain albums from time to time and Apple Music sometimes offers exclusives for certain music videos. Spotify says it has a catalog of over 70 million songs while Apple Music is over 75 million. See all photos Apple Music has more tracks, Spotify has podcasts You can also adjust the equalizer in both to suit your preferences, although you'll find Apple Music's EQ outside of the app in the Settings app.

To find out more about bit rate and audio quality, read this in-depth comparison of sound quality between Apple Music and Spotify. Spotify will soon add a HiFi subscription for lossless audio later in 2021. Users will need to opt-in to lossless audio by going to Settings, then Music, then Audio Quality on the iPhone.

If you listen on Spotify's web player, it streams in AAC at 128Kbps for free users or 256Kbps for premium.Īpple Music streams 256Kbps AAC files and now has lossless and spatial audio on select songs. On mobile you can choose what bit rate to stream, in increments up to 320Kbps, which is handy especially if you're worried about using up too much mobile data. Spotify uses the Ogg Vorbis format or AAC. Winner: Spotify Does Apple Music or Spotify have better streaming quality?

And if you're a student, you'll get access to Hulu and Showtime (ad-supported) as part of your Premium subscription. Spotify also offers a Premium Duo subscription for two users who live at the same address for $13 (£13, AU$16). The caveat (aside from the interruptions) is that many albums and playlists require you to listen in shuffle mode rather than sequential play and there's a limit of six skips per hour.Īpple Music lets free users stream Beats1 Radio, or you can listen to songs from your iTunes library. Spotify is the only one of the two music services with a free, ad-supported tier, so even if you don't want to pay for the premium version you can still listen.

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