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Apple Music is conspicuously absent from your list.
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Does Youtube give you higher quality music if you pay for a subscription? Their default is adequate for older Bluetooth, but that's about it.
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No Apple Music, or is this % that matched to AppleMusic?
IIRC, Youtube Music (Formerly Google Music) has the largest library, followed by Spotify and AppleMusic.
AppleMusic offers Lossless and Atmos where available, if that matters to you.
If you have a lot of time invested in Playlists, Spotify will sync them, last time I checked, Youtube Music will not.
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I do not have an Apple Music subscription so I wasn't able to test that service.
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davemchine wrote:
I tried an interesting experiment. I used www.soundiiz.com to sync my home jazz playlist to the different music streaming services to see which one had more of the music I enjoy listening to. My playlist has 4,288 tracks and here's how many sync'd to the various services:
Tidal 85%
Spotify 90%
Pandora 63%
Youtube 91%
Amazon Failed to sync
The only surprise was Youtube being the frontrunner. I rarely hear people talk about Youtube Music yet it seems to have the most music.
YouTube Music is the best bargain because it also eliminates ads on Youtube videos. Now they gotta sneak 'em in the video itself.
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My wife likes Pandora, my kids like Spotify, and I mostly use Tidal. I pay for YouTube because I don’t like advertisements and only learned about their music service recently. I’d like to consolidate eventually.
