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5 Great Spotify Alternatives You Should Know

Updated on: September 21, 2024
Category: Spotify Tips

Launched in September 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, Spotify is the biggest platform of online music streaming service in the world. Spotify provides access to over 100 million songs, with more music being added approximately every day including albums, EPs, and singles.

However, Spotify is not that perfect, as it encodes its content with its exclusive format, which restricts users from playing Spotify music on more devices. So some may wonder if Spotify is the best fit for them. If you are one of them checking out different music streaming services for settling with the best one, here this article will introduce 5 great Spotify alternatives to help you do the best choice.


1. Apple Music

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Apple Music is a new member of pop music. Launched by Apple Company on June 30, 2015, Apple Music is a young but strong platform of online music streaming service. It uses the same music collection as iTunes Store; Apple Music subscribers will get access to a considerably large music library in the world, over 100 million songs. What worth mentioning are its special tabs. "For you" recommends music for the user. "My Music" section shows that both purchased songs and tracks available for streaming. "Radio" incorporates some aspects of iTunes Radio, such as ad-supported stations that play genre-specific or artist-related music, depending on the user's preferences.

Related article: Everything You Need to Know about Apple Music

2. Tidal

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Tidal is a music streaming service that combines lossless audio and high definition music videos with curated editorial, has over 100 million tracks and 350,000 music videos. The service gives the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters. And Tidal digital music streaming services, Tidal Premium (lossy quality) and Tidal HiFi (lossless CD quality). And the monthly subscription of Tidal costs $9.99 for the HiFi or $19.99 for HiFi Plus the lossless quality high fidelity quality.

3. YouTube Music

Google Play Music

Note: As of December 2020, Google Play Music has officially been shut down. And Google Play Music has now been replaced with YouTube Music, a revamped version of Google's music app.


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Google Play Music, launched by Google, is a music streaming service and online music locker, it allows users with standard accounts to upload and listen to up to 50,000 songs from your computer to online music locker at no cost, which is a great way to carry around your personal collection and stream them anywhere. The music storage service is free, but the streaming service is not. Google Play Music offers more than 50 million tracks for purchasing or streaming to "All Access" subscribers. And the subscription is sold in combination with YouTube Red for US $10.99 per month.

4. Deezer

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Deezer is a web-based music streaming service. Form Wikipedia, Deezer currently has 120 million licensed tracks in its library, over 32,000 radio channels, 12 million monthly active users, and 5 million paid subscribers as of of January 2024. There are three ways to stream Deezer music, the Free plan allows users to enjoy unlimited music on computer and tablet, but it is supported with advertisements, only has six skips per hour and no scrubbing; the Premium+ plan provides higher-quality music without ads, and users paying $10.99 monthly gains access to downloadable applications for computers, as well as Android, BlackBerry, and iOS mobile devices; the Elite plan, costing $14.99 monthly, users will get CD-quality music, but compare with the Premium, the TV, HiFi, Car, and Google Chromecast support are unavailable.

5. Pandora

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Pandora, also known as Pandora Radio is a music streaming and automated music recommendation service. The service plays musical selections of a certain genre based on the user's artist selection. Listeners can create their own stations, or tune into pre-made genre stations, other users' stations. Each track played can be responded to with favorable (thumbs up) or unfavorable (thumbs down) buttons, which determine if it should be played, and how much should similarly classified songs be played in the station. Pandora provides three plans to enjoy services, a free subscription with advertisements,a $54.89 USD/year or $4.99 USD/month subscription for Pandora Plus without ads and $9.99 USD/month subscription for Pandora Premium.

Extra tip: How to Stream Spotify Music without DRM Restriction

It is well-known that Spotify is proprietary and encodes its music with protection, which bring users with much inconvenience. Is there any way to break the restriction from Spotify music, so users can stream them freely? The answer is positive, there is a great Spotify Music Converter will help Mac users perfectly record Spotify music. NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter can convert all your Spotify music and playlists to MP3, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, or ALAC with keeping 100% original quality of Spotify music. Thus, you can enjoy Spotify music freely.

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The free trial version only enables you to convert the first 1 minute of each song. You can buy the full version to unlock this limitation.



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