Apple Music or Spotify

No DJs.

It's not a radio service. It's like a massive music collection on your iPhone (or computer, or whatever). Want to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon"? Listen to it, just like you've cued up the CD.

 

Ahhhh, OK. I learn something new every day!

 

I couldn't be happier with the Spotify product, but I retain a subscription to Sirius because my sister-in-law works there and one of the DJs, Christine Stone (classic rewind), have become friends because we stop at the same midtown pub for lunch.

 

If you've more than just you in your household, a good plan is to trade using your free three months on both services. A year's worth of free music.

 

That's Kristine with a K!

I've got to be the last person who doesn't get streaming. Along those lines, this is an old man shaking his fist at the clouds question, but if one of the perks of Spotify is listening to an entire album, couldn't you just call it up on the iTunes you have synced to your phone (or, old man continues shaking his fist at the clouds here, iPod)?

 

I love Spotify. I do family plan, 4 users, no ads. I make my own playlists but you can just pick a song and have them play a station based on the song (think instantaneous Pandora station)

Example of best use to me, heard that Bruno Mars came out with a new song (I have to get new contemporary music for my hoops run because people tired of my "Old School" playlists with Sugarhill Gang) and immediately found it on spotify without having to buy it. Then immediately found new songs related to it. Amazing.

 

If you own it, yes. But I don't own every piece of music I'd like to listen to. And I've got a pretty enormous music collection, but very little of it is on my phone.

 

It's a fair point. But I'm not using Spotify to listen to a whole album. I've passed the point of listening to 10 songs from the same artist. For me, it's all about putting my favorite, unrelated songs together in one place and having one great song come up right after another, bypassing anything I don't want.

 

That's just Amazon limiting the damage to your son.

 

This makes me sad. The death of the album makes me sad. I still love a curated, thoughtful collection of songs by one artist that put together make a much bigger statement than just one song by itself.