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Non-Hip-Hop Best Posts: What's Your Go To Streaming Service: Apple Music vs Spotify vs Tidal

  1. marshmallow
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  2. Genemon123
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    Genemon123 Stay Wavy “Can U Be“

    Jun 11, 2018
    Google Play just upload my music and hear it everywhere
     
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    I've tried free trials for all three and have never paid for one except for when I took advantage of a "three months of Spotify premium for 99 cents" promotion and one time when I made a TIDAL burner account for my mom so she could put on a Christmas music playlist (lol) when family was over for the holidays and forgot to cancel the next month.

    @Worm @Slyk Right now I'm using TIDAL cuz @Loyalty hooked me up with a free six month trial from one of his on the run tour tickets. I'd say Spotify and TIDAL are about equal in interface. TIDAL has the best exclusives but that doesn't seem like it's really a thing anymore other than, like, Lemonade, Reasonable Doubt and a few others that I have downloaded anyway so that's never a real issue for me. I like that TIDAL is more hip-hop focused with playlists and whatnot cuz it's my fav genre, but I never really listen to Rap Cavier on Spotify or anything like that. I mostly listen to albums or make a playlist myself cuz I'm a more "active" music consumer if that makes sense. I don't let the robot make choices for me!!!

    I just hate AM's interface. Maybe it's gotten better since I had a trial but every time I use someone else's I'm like "what the f--- is this s---." I do like that you can integrate it with your music library because it is a minor inconvenience to switch between TIDAL/Spotify and music library apps on your phone.

    But yeah I'll probably either stick with TIDAL or get Spotify after this since I think it's a bit cheaper. It took me awhile to be sold on streaming cuz at the beginning there was so much good rap missing from them that was free anyway but it's just so convenient now it's hard to go back to downloading each and everything you wanna hear manually. I was stubborn with it for so long but now I just DL albums I really really like in case they get removed or changed, cuz that is the one thing I still hate about streaming in general. Things can just get pulled and if you were not an internet-savvy person you'd either have to buy the album or be SOL.
     
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  5. aquaberryares
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    Jun 11, 2018
    I'm on Google play. Love it but haven't really tried anything else past sum spotify and apple free trials. I like uploading my mixtapes and other unreleased s--- which isnt usually on streaming services but I'm sure u can do that with other services as well.
    Also YouTube red comes along with it which is pretty convenient. Tho tbf I was a little disappointed when I found out YouTube red isn't the same as RedTube
     
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    Jun 11, 2018
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  7. Packman
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    Its interface, the daily mix/made for you playlists, new music Friday's, etc.

    Its simple, and it works. Apple Music has one thing on it that I love and that's the short write ups about the album you're listening to. Other than that though, Spotify wins
     
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