(Image credit: Apple Music) Apple Music review: Availability You can find full instructions for this on the Apple support site (opens in new tab). There is a $99 annual plan for committed subscribers, but signing up to it can be a bit of an arcane process - you first need to sign up to a monthly plan, then switch to annual billing in the app or through your Apple device's account settings. The Apple One plan combines Apple Music, Apple Arcade, iCloud+, and Apple TV+ for $14.95/£14.95 per month. The most affordable monthly option is the recently introduced Apple Music voice plan at $4.99/£4.99 per month, but this only allows you to play music through Siri (opens in new tab).Īpple Music's student plan (opens in new tab) also costs $5.99/£4.99 monthly, ( Apple increased the price for its student plan by $1 (opens in new tab) in May 2022) while the standard music plans cost $9.99/£9.99 for individuals and $14.99/£14.99 for families and up to 6 accounts, which is slightly more affordable than Spotify's similar plan priced at $15.99.

With an open net browsing tab offering you an endless supply of music, Spotify customers can enjoy a heightened degree of seamless integration as they go about their digital days.Unlike Spotify (opens in new tab) and Tidal (opens in new tab), Apple Music doesn't offer a free tier. Web Player: Ever since the creation of, dedicated users of Spotify who use it for more than just pre-made playlists have had little reason to use the app’s RAM-guzzling standalone application. Sharing/subscribing to the playlists of friends (or people you just lurk on) is simple and lends at least a semblance of real, human interaction to the cold light of our glowing rectangles. Dragging and dropping whole albums or individual songs is as easy–or even easier–than doing the same in iTunes and the process of saving an album or self-made list for offline, data-friendly listening is a breeze. Playlists: No music streaming service seems to have playlist use figured out like Spotify. New releases seem to make their way onto the streaming service immediately after the official drop time (even in “unexpected” instances such as last year’s Black Messiah drop or this spring’s To Pimp A Butterfly surprise). Library: Spotify’s catalog is extensive to the point that one could spend an entire second lifespan “digitally digging” in its interface.

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