Apple Music Vs Spotify (2023)

FAQs

Is Spotify actually better than Apple Music? ›

Should You Get Spotify or Apple Music? Apple Music offers the best sound quality, has more exclusive features, and includes music videos, broadcast radio, and shows. Spotify includes music alongside audiobooks and podcasts, provides a free plan, supports more platforms, and has better social features.

Spotify may seem like the better option because it has a free tier as well as its premium subscription, while Apple Music is a paid-only service. The features that Spotify Premium offers are undoubtedly compelling: no ads, unlimited skips and the ability to play music offline.

Spotify currently has over 515 million users and 210 million Premium subscribers worldwide. Spotify offers a free tier option as well as a popular music-sharing experience. Apple Music was once the leader in all things digital music, but is currently behind Spotify with more than 98 million users worldwide.

Protected Songs: Apple Music has locked all your downloaded songs with Apple FairPlay Protection, which makes it inconvenient to enjoy these songs. You cannot keep your downloaded songs if you canceling the subscription. Also, you are not able to play the music on devices without Apple ID signed in.

That said, even when listening primarily on wireless earbuds while using an iPhone, I found that most songs sounded louder and brighter on Apple Music compared to Spotify. Lossless audio is eventually coming to Spotify via Spotify HiFi, but there still isn't a clear word on when.

Spotify is the best streaming service.

Spotify also offers the best free tier: Without paying a dime or providing a credit card number, you can listen to millions of tunes and even stream to numerous Wi-Fi devices.

It released its data on the global streaming music subscription market for the second quarter of 2021. While Apple Music is firmly in second place, it's still lagging far behind its biggest competitor — Spotify. Spotify has a 31% market share while Apple Music is only at 15%.

Best if you have a big existing music library and want lossless audio. Apple Music has a key advantage over Spotify in that you can combine the songs you already own with the Apple Music streaming catalog. Siri users also get more robust voice controls for playback.

Apple Music is a streaming service designed more for music lovers than casual listeners, and that's probably due to the Beats Music lineage. The feature set offered by Apple Music is rich, with curated content by experienced editors supported by an algorithm that takes into account your listening habits.

Spotify sits at the top of the list, as usual, raking in a total of 44.4 million paid subscribers in the United States. Meanwhile, Apple Music has 32.6 million paid subscribers in the same region.

Does Apple Music work offline? ›

After you add music to your library, you can download it to your device to listen to offline.

You're not going to get a consensus answer about this. I have both, and Apple Music does sound better to me. I understand that it could be several factors in play, but it consistently sounds better for most albums I listen to. You should try them both out though and see which one's best for your ears.

Streaming quality

Apple Music uses the company's own Apple Lossless Audio Codec for streaming. Every available track is at least Lossless, which is what the service calls files ripped at 16-bit/44.1 kHz. That's CD quality. They also offer Hi-Res Lossless, encoded at better-than-CD rates (up to 24-bit/192 kHz).

The songs may be DRM protected or in an unsupported format so Music cannot play them. > Songs Are Not Currently Available. If songs are not available in your country, then they will appear in gray text.

Is Apple Music worth it? While there's certainly no shortage of great options for streaming music, Apple Music is more than worth considering. It offers a larger selection of music than most of its competitors with millions of songs. And it comes in at roughly the same price.

Spotify offers everything that all of its music streaming app competitors have and more. Their bread and butter is a library of millions of songs (over 40 million) and a massive number of playlists. These playlists are created by mobile app users as well as Spotify's algorithm system.

Spotify Premium supports the compressed, lossy Ogg Vorbis audio format and streams at 320kbps when at the Very High setting. Other settings are Low (24kbps), Normal (96kbps), High (160kbps), and Automatic (adjusts depending on network connection).