streaming quality spotify vs apple music

What follows is an account of what I discovered. So, I signed for for a Spotify Premium trial, fired up the two apps and got to work comparing them, pacing myself, taking time to absorb the subtleties in the music coming out of my setup.

Even though I hadn’t opened the app in months, my Apple Music subscription was still active because my wife and my brother were sharing it with me on the Family Plan. I had to see (hear) for myself.Īpple Music was the first streaming service I signed up for (I’ve been a customer since launch) before I moved on to Tidal Hifi and eventually Deezer Hifi. Over these few weeks, I’ve seen a number of posts on Twitter and Reddit claiming that the sound quality of Apple Music is superior to that of Spotify. The difference between Deezer Hifi’s FLAC (at 16 bit/44.1kHz) stream and Soptify’s 320kpbs Ogg Vorbis stream is immediately apparent, but this “review” is not about that. But the lack of CD quality streaming has left me wanting.

But I was curious, and signed up because I wanted to see if this streaming app could get to know me as well as my friends were claiming it could.Ī month later, I don’t have any doubts about its recommendation capabilities. With no Hifi offering, Spotify is of no interest to me at the moment. Now that Spotify has officially launched in Sri Lanka, I see Apple Music subscribers jumping ship en masse, given the new entrant’s supposedly better recommendation algorithm.

Streaming quality spotify vs apple music