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YouTube Music: YouTube Music is the successor to Google Play Music, and if you sign up for the ad-free YouTube Premium at $12 per month, you get YouTube Music thrown in for free. The good news is that YouTube Music is a mostly impressive service -- the lower bit-rate of 256kbps is mildly annoying -- but Google has retained the predecessor's music locker system enabling users to upload new tracks. In even better news, YouTube Music offers a cleaner interface than Google Play Music plus over 60 million tracks to choose from. Instead of playlists, YouTube Music offers well-curated radio stations that play endlessly and are updated often. .

Deezer: French stalwart [url=/tech/services-and-software/deezer-the-french-rival-to-spotify-launches-in-the-us/]Deezer has been operating in the States since 2016, and it has a lot to offer, including a free tier (mobile only) and 90 million tracks. It has more subscribers than some others on this list, thanks in part to its previous affiliation with Cricket Wireless. The main Premium plan is $10 a month, but users are also able to upgrade to a lossless version (CD quality) for $15 a month. It reportedly boasts more users than Tidal, and it offers a couple of unique features. For example, it's the first service to offer the ability for users to  at no extra charge. [url=]See it at Deezer.

Pandora Premium: Still one of the most popular streaming radio services in the US, Pandora also offers the a la carte Premium ($10 a month) and no-ads Plus ($5 a month). The result is more flexibility than most competitors, and Premium has gained in recent years, even if the service is not keeping up in terms of overall catalog size. Sadly, its audio quality is among the lowest available, even on the Premium subscription (192Kbps), and it doesn't really offer enough of an [url=https://www.Houzz.com/photos/query/incentive]incentive for an upgrade from its highly popular free tier. .





Top services compared



















Amazon Music Unlimited





Apple Music





Qobuz





Spotify





Tidal





YouTube Music













Monthly fee





Prime members: $8, ?8, N/A; Non-Prime members: $10, ?10, AU$12; Echo-only service: Free, AU$5





$10, ?10, AU$12; Voice $5, ?5, AU$6





$13, AU$20





$10, ?10, AU$12





Hi-Fi: $10, ?10, AU$15; HiFi Plus: $20, ?20, AU$24





$10, ?10, AU$12











Free option?





Yes, with ads





No





No





Yes, with ads





Yes





Yes, with ads











Free trial period





30 days





3 months





30 days





30 days





3 months





30 days











Music library size





75 million





90 million





70 million





Over 82 million





Over 80 million





Over 60 million











Maximum bit rate





256Kbps, 3,730Kbps (HD)





256Kbps, TBD





6,971Kbps





320Kbps





1,411Kbps





256Kbps












Family plan?





Yes, $15, ?15, AU$18 for up to 6 people





Yes, $15, ?15, AU$18 for up to 6 people





Yes, $16.67, ?16.67, AU$45





Yes $16 per month, up to 6





Yes, 50% off each additional account, up to 4





Yes, $15, ?15, AU$18 per month for up to 6 people











Student discount





No





Yes, Price varies by country





No





Yes, $5, ?5 with Hulu and Showtime





Student HiFi: $5, Student HiFi plus: $10 (US only)





Yes, $5











US military discount





No





No





No





No





Yes





No











Offline listening





Mobile and desktop





Mobile only





Mobile and desktop





Mobile and desktop





Mobile only





Premium and mobile only











Radio stations





Yes





Yes





No





Yes





No





Yes











Podcasts





Yes





No





No





Yes





Yes





Yes











Music videos





No





Yes





No





Yes





Yes





Yes











Music locker functionality





No





Yes





No





No





No





Yes













Music Streaming FAQs







How do you transfer your library between services?


















Without contracts it's pretty easy to cancel one service and start with another. That said, swapping between music services isn't as straightforward, for example, as swapping between movie locker services using [url=]. If you don't want to have to rebuild your playlists and library from scratch when you switch, you have two main options -- a music locker service such as YouTube Music (but this implies you have a library of ripped or ), or the library import tool [url=]Soundiiz. The latter is a service that lets you import the songs from each of your music services and transfer them, and while there's a $4.50 monthly charge, you can always cancel once you've converted your library. Recently, Deezer has offered the ability for new users to convert their libraries from other services for free (via another service called ). 























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