Re: Why should I use music streaming services
Slight correction: Siri does actually let you play from Spotify now. You have to specifically ask for it, but as long as you do it works.
Compared to just playing music on YouTube, the quality will be considerably higher, 320KBPS MP3, Ogg or AAC depending on whether you go with Spotify, YouTube music or Apple music or even losless Flac on Deezer or Tidal. You'll also not get any ads, which can be especially annoying when you're on mobile where there isn't an easy way to block them. The artists will also actually get payed whenever you listen to a song, though how much they get payed, even before the label gets their cut could be much, much better than it is now but that's a discussion for another time. The services also give you some pretty cool features, like being able to search for other people's playlists, or make your own and work on them with friends. You can also follow your favorite artists, and get notified when they release something new. All the services also include a music recommendation system that will learn from your listening history. Spotify in particular is really good at it, and after a week of listening it should start offering you playlists with music they think you'll like which will often be very accurate.
So a lot of it is just down to convenience. Being able to quickly find almost any song out there is really cool, and so is the recommendation system - which is what made me start using them. Of course, nothing is perfect, you don't actually own your music even if you download it for offline listening. Occasionally, you may find that a song will disappear from the site you're using as some licensing contract expires or gets transfered. And of course, if you stop paying, you'll lose access to all of your saved songs (though some services like Spotify or Deezer have free tiers that will still let you play things in lower quality and ads with some features disabled.
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