Both Spotify and YouTube Music offer access to tens of millions of songs. Quality trumps quantity any day of the week, and there isn’t a big difference between the two in this area, in my experience. All my favorite songs and artists are available on both platforms. Your mileage may va...
Which of these music streaming heavyweights is the best for you? Spotify and YouTube Music are popular for their large music collections, personalized playlists, and music discovery features. However, deciding between the two can be tough due to differences in the content variety, sound quality, ...
By comparison, you can easily notice that for the lower quality settings, YouTube Red offers better bitrate (high quality) to stream. But for the highest option, Spotify can reach 320kbps at max, while YouTube Red only offers 256kbps as the best choice. In conclusion, if you consider gra...
Sound quality Derek Malcolm/Digital Trends We’ve pitted Spotify and YouTube Music against each other for many reasons. Still, one of the main ones is that they are among the only music streaming services that have yet to offer an option or plan tier for lossless or high-resolution (hi-re...
For audio quality, YouTube Music’s maximum audio quality is 256 kbps AAC, which is comparable to Spotify Premium’s maximum at 320 kbps MP3. Spotify have announced a HiFi streaming tier, however we are still waiting for the feature to launch, and have no word yet on the maximum bitrate...
Tidal vs. Spotify: Which music streaming service has the features you need? Spotify may be king of the streaming music world, but when it comes to audio quality, Tidal offers some big competition. Join us as we compare both platforms. ...
The new YouTube Music app. / © NextPit As for the music content, artists and albums, both Spotify and YouTube Music have huge catalogs, so it’ll be difficult not to find something pleasant to listen to on both platforms. But the benefit of YouTube Music, at least in this respect...
Spotify Free vs. Spotify Premium: Sound quality If you’ve got sensitive ears, you’ll notice one thing immediately when you boot up Spotify Free — it sounds bad. See, you only get a 160kbps bit rate for your tracks on the free version of Spotify which is about the worst that you’...
which is higher than Spotify's (24 kb/s). While YouTube Music has a better bitrate than Spotify Free, it doesn't match up to the paid version. Moreover, Spotify has better flexibility when choosing either high-quality sound or data preservation...
Apple Music streams songs at 256kbps, switching to a lower bitrate by default when you're using cellular data. However, Apple Music also offers Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless audio, which allows you to stream or download music at up to 24-bit/192kHz. That's beyond CD quality and equivalent...