Team-BHP - Which music streaming platform do you prefer?

I used many music streaming platforms like Wynk, Saavn. But, my favourite is Amazon prime music, which I'm using it since past 1 year along with Wynk. But, what I didn't like in Wynk is too much of irritating ads, which forced me to move to Amazon Prime music.

Even now, I use Wynk music too for streaming old songs.

My Apple Music collection is 5-6 years old and is huge. I am not extremely thrilled with Apple but am enjoying Spotify. I am thinking about migrating over to Spoifty completely. There appears to be a few apps such as Tune my music, Stamp, Songshift, Soundiiz which transfer data from one music service to another. They all appear to cost $8-10 USD or so which is fine. Just wanted to ask if anyone has gone through this process. Is it as straightforward as it seems. And, which migration app would you recommend. Thanks in advance!

Apple Music has started offering lossless music and Hi-Resolution lossless to existing and new subscribers from June this year. Has this service started in India? I do not see options yet for lossless settings in my Music app. The iOS version is 14.6 as required.

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Originally Posted by Maibaa (Post 5089637)

It's sporadic. Some have it, and some don't. I don't have access to it.. though with a VPN at times I have seen the "lossless" stamp.
Forgot to add.. It's certainly not available officially.

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Originally Posted by Maibaa (Post 5089637)

It's here now! My phone speakers are sounding better already :Cheering:

Now that lossless music is available in India on Apple Music, I have a question for the experts here. What's the best possible way to feed the same quality into the car HU? Will a portable, lightning to 3.5mm DAC do the job? But in that case, I won't be able to use Carplay. On the other hand, will the standard lightning to USB connection deliver the lossless audio to the system? From what I've read, since Apple ditched the 3.5mm jack, there's no DAC inside the phone anymore.

I will leave the audiophile aspects out as that goes into a different discussion.

I prefer YT Music for multiple reasons:
1. Their catalog (including Indian) has more stuff than Apple or Indian services like Wynk, Saavn.
2. The algorithms to discover music have significantly improved, this helps in song discovery really well. Difficult to say if it is superior to Spotify (which also i use for discovery) but it is not inferior.
3. By taking YouTube Premium, get access not just to music but video benefits as well (playing a talk on the background without YouTube shutting down).

Amazon Music for me. Since it comes bundled with the Prime membership, it's a boon. The music library is decent enough. Occasionally also use Jio Saavn. Gaana used to be quite good earlier, but now it's become a hotbed for annoying ads.

Youtube premium with Youtube Music!
The main reason for shifting from gaana premium was its laggy interface & limited choice of songs.

Youtube Music on the other hand is light weight and offers huge collection of songs in addition to the ad-free youtube video experience. ₹129 a month is certainly not a bad deal IMHO since the ad situation on Youtube is so bad nowadays.

Spent Rs 399/ - on a JioSaavn subscription and it seems to be a waste. Search takes long and songs don't play most of the time ( Cannot playback song at this time - try later ).

This is on an iphone. I have other music apps like amazon music and spotify and I don't see any issues with them. Anyone else faced this issue ?

In all honesty, I have been quite late joining the music streaming scene. Which for a nerdy techie like me was a bit of a surprise, even to me.

But I have hundreds, if not thousands of CDs and as many downloaded iTune songs too. Yes, all my cars have cassette/CD/radio and I have added iPod capability as well. Yes, I still have three iPods as well!

But for some reason or the other we have not had a decent music system in our home. A few months ago, after consultation with my eldest son Luc, I bought some Sonos speakers and got myself a Spotify subscription.
Life hasn’t been the same!

I am really impressed with both the Sonos speaker system and also Spotify. I can also stream all my favourite Radio station through my Sonos speakers.

The Spotify logic picks up on your preferences and generates play lists. I often listen to these. They tend to be very very good selection and I have found a number of new artists I like I had never heard before.

I can stream my Spotify subscription through my my mobile phone, which I can hook up to my car radios.

All in all very happy with Spotify and my little Sonos speaker system.