Apple Music Vs Spotify Quality. Apple Music and Spotify are the biggest players in the music streaming space -- and for good reason. Spotify essentially created the market as it exists today and has millions more users globally. Spotify vs. Pandora; Conversely, Apple Music is a relative newcomer known for its high-profile exclusive releases, large library, human-touch radio, and full integration into Apple’s popular iOS. In the summer of 2015, Apple took on Spotify with Apple Music, a paid music service built into the iOS Music app. Sixteen months later, Amazon—never one to be left out of the digital playground.
Apple Music and Spotify stream using different audio formats, and Spotify has nice quality controls within the app. That said, the difference is going to be negligible to most people. Spotify's competitors now include: Apple Music, Deezer, Napster, Google Play Music and Amazon Music Unlimited. Tidal has also made a huge name for itself by focusing on superior sound quality including CD-quality lossless streaming and hi-res FLAC-based audio files.
But like Apple Music, the paid-for (Premium) subscription for Spotify is £9.99 per month and offers unlimited streaming with no ads at a higher quality (we'll talk more about quality in a moment).
Apple Music and Spotify stream using different audio formats, and Spotify has nice quality controls within the app. That said, the difference is going to be negligible to most people. Spotify vs Apple Music: Music Quality (Image credit: Apple) Apple has not formally announced the bitrates its songs stream at, but locally-saved files are 256 kbps AAC files, the same format as. Spotify can stream up to 320 kbps via Spotify Premium's "Extreme" audio quality option, whereas both Apple Music and YouTube Music only go up to 256 kbps. Unless you are listening on some sort of high-end audio system or high-end headphones, chances are you won't be able to tell the difference in streaming quality. But like Apple Music, the paid-for (Premium) subscription for Spotify is £9.99 per month and offers unlimited streaming with no ads at a higher quality (we'll talk more about quality in a moment).
