The audio quality is reportedly not as good as other services but it does have playlists and radio stations and other features you would see elsewhere.Īs with Apple Music and its ecosystem, if you’re already an Android user, this is an easier option for you.

It has about 60m songs and you get access to YouTube videos along with it. If you pay for a YouTube premium subscription – A$14.99 (£11.99) a month – you get YouTube Music for free. Photograph: Thiago Prudencio/Dax/ZumaWire/Rex/Shutterstock 2. YouTube Music doesn’t have the audio quality of other services but, if you’ve already got YouTube premium, it’s not the worst deal. There are also bundled subscription deals with Apple’s other services, such as iCloud storage and Apple TV+. If you’re already in the Apple ecosystem this is definitely the best option, but there is also an Android app.Īpple offers three months for free to new users but after that subscriptions are A$11.99 (£9.99) a month or A$119 (£99) a year, with family plans at A$17.99 (£14.99) a month. Lossless audio is something Spotify promised in 2021 but has not launched. Apple also has launched lossless and spatial audio for a better quality of listen. The user experience now seems much closer to Spotify. But it has come a long way in the past few years, with vast improvements to its functionality, music selection (75m songs), radio, playlists and other features like music videos which Spotify doesn’t have. When Apple Music launched, it felt clunky and limited.

Depending on when you subscribed, you’ll be able to keep the premium features until the next payment was due. Unfortunately, Spotify doesn’t make it possible to cancel through its phone apps, so you’ll need to log in via a web browser and cancel your premium subscription through the account settings function. Streaming services tend to not have lock-in contracts, so if you’re looking to switch to another service, the first step would be cancelling your existing subscription.

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