Best Online Music Streaming Service? - Recommendations

duotone

My spotify subscription is soon to expire & I just wanted to know what services you lot use/can recommend? I keep seeing Tidal mentioned online, but is that just due to the buyout by Jay-Z? anyone use it? In the meantime I will use the free Spotify (with adverts) & Grooveshark services. Cheers!

monquixote

I've looked about, but Spotify always wins out. 

It's now backed by Sony on all their products including Playstation 3 and 4 so that's another bonus.

thomasross20

I just use youtube - ads are a pain but it's free. 

What's the benefit of Spotify?

monquixote

Offline caching of tracks, 320kbps vorbis, not having to piss about with finding a decent version of things.

duotone

monquixote said:

I've looked about, but Spotify always wins out. 

It's now backed by Sony on all their products including Playstation 3 and 4 so that's another bonus.

Cheers monquixote!

Fretwired

Spotify for me. Just bought a bit of hardware so I can stream Spotify all over the house .. cost me £40.

duotone

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/126892-which-is-the-best-music-streaming-service-in-the-uk-spotify-vs-rdio-vs-deezer-and-more Found this comparison of online streaming services, the majority of which I haven't heard of before.

duotone

Signed up with Google Play Music for a change. Costs the same as spotify premium (£10 a month) & has a vast library/playlists etc.

 Worth trying out if you fancy something different, & it has a 3 month free trial/cancel anytime offer on atm.

Iamnobody

@duotone - just wondered what made you want to stop using Spotify?

ToneControl

careful with apple music - they delete all your own recordings from your HDD if you are not careful

Sporky

thomasross20 said:

What's the benefit of Spotify?

As mentioned, higher quality, offline caching, better searching, better suggestions and more.

eSully

The offline caching is a big one if you use your phone as a music player. I use it a lot to save on my data allowance while out and about.

The weekly discovery playlist that gets generated against your tastes is pretty spot on too, I check it every week.

Lev

Really annoys me that Spotify won't allow filtering of explicit lyrics. Ordinarily it wouldn't bother me but I'd prefer not to have my 6 and 8 year olds singing along to the unfiltered version of Cake by the Ocean.

duotone

Iamnobody said:

@duotone - just wondered what made you want to stop using Spotify?

Got a new bank card & didn't bother updating it on my spotify account so it automatically cancelled. Spotify I can still use unlimited,listening on my iPad/PC although I can't download songs on my phone. 

GooglePlayMusic is on my Android phone & has no access to their library for free, so I was curious to see what it had on offer. 

TBH it's the same kind of set-up as Spotify but with a different colour scheme (White & Orange V's Green & Black). I would say you only need to use one or the other, no need for both.

Tbh if Amazon Prime had a bigger/better library I would have used that exclusively and saved myself £10 a month, but I find it a bit limited for music.  Although it does has a fantastic 'XRay Lyrics" feature, where the lyrics scroll along with the music, like karaoke.

Sporky

eSully said:

The weekly discovery playlist that gets generated against your tastes is pretty spot on too, I check it every week.

Mine definitely favours the mellower end of my listening!

octatonic

Spotify for users, but it is terrible for artists.

monquixote

octatonic;1106138" said:

Spotify for users, but it is terrible for artists.

That only really applies to the free version

octatonic

monquixote said:

octatonic;1106138" said:

Spotify for users, but it is terrible for artists.

That only really applies to the free version

Paid version is terrible for artists too.

Or is that not what you meant?

monquixote

octatonic;1106161" said:

monquixote said:

octatonic;1106138" said:Spotify for users, but it is terrible for artists.

That only really applies to the free version










Paid version is terrible for artists too.Or is that not what you meant?

I don't see how.

thomasross20

Just downloaded Spotify - brilliant so far. 

Ben8010

octatonic said:

monquixote said:

octatonic;1106138" said:

Spotify for users, but it is terrible for artists.

That only really applies to the free version

Paid version is terrible for artists too.

Or is that not what you meant?

Which one would you say is good for artists? I think that's the kind of thing that would swing it for a lot of people