Besides, Spotify’s ‘Discover Weekly’ playlist, refreshed every Monday, is an impressive way to discover music. While both apps strive to recommend new music based on your listening history and music taste, we felt the algorithm in Spotify worked better for us and compelled us to add more new songs to our playlist. Both Apple Music and Spotify have separate sections to discover new and trending music, but we feel Spotify does a better job in this category. The biggest advantage of an online streaming service is that you can easily discover new music without manually searching for it. Winner: It’s a tie, but Spotify wins the tiebreaker Apple Music vs.

Moreover, Spotify comes with all the popular podcast titles, and it seems to be the go-to platform for creators to make their podcasts exclusive – like the Joe Rogan Experience, and the Michelle Obama Podcast. That’s the main reason we kept coming back to Spotify. While we used Apple Music, one feature we missed was the ability to listen to podcasts on the same app. Spotify Library (R)īut here’s where Spotify has a huge advantage – Podcasts. Moreover, we are huge fans of indie, alternative, and not-so-mainstream music, so we had no trouble finding music across all genres. We can confidently say that either of these apps will suffice your music taste. The ones that were not available on Spotify, were not available on Apple Music too and vice versa – which is probably the music that is unauthorized for streaming. However, the difference in the numbers isn’t conclusive, as, in our experience, we were able to find results for any song we searched on both apps.

Spotify: Music LibraryĪpple Music claims to have a library of over 90 million plus songs, whereas Spotify claims to have over 80 million plus songs. Let’s see how both apps go head to head with each other. But with recent advancements in Spatial Audio and a far better mobile application, Apple has been making good strides and offers a few advantages over Spotify.

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