![]() ![]() ( Like iTunes, Apple Music is another Apple-owned entry on the list of Spotify competitors. And there are no subscriptions involved on iTunes, you just pay for what you want to listen to or watch. However, iTunes does allow you to purchase and download individual songs or albums - as well as some movies and television shows - which you can organize into playlists on iTunes, move to other devices, or manage pretty much any way that you want. However, it doesn’t allow you to customize those stations like Pandora does. ( Like Pandora, iTunes lets you listen to Internet radio stations free of charge. However, Tidal cannot be used for free, and its subscription options can get as expensive as $20 per month. In addition, you can watch over 75,000 music videos in high-quality video on demand as well. Tidal itself allows you to listen to songs on demand and in high audio quality from a library of over 25 million songs. ![]() They wanted to make a music-streaming service that avoided the licensing issues that Pandora and Spotify ran into by having artists license their music to a service that they owned themselves, resulting in more money going directly to musicians (instead of record labels and other middleman distributors) and thus more incentive being created for artists to put their music on Tidal. ( One of the newest Pandora competitors, Tidal was created by a group of musicians led by rapper Shawn Carter, better known as “Jay-Z”. In addition, Google Play Music also offers a free service where you can store your music files - up to 50,000 in total! - so that you can get at them from pretty much anywhere you want! You can also purchase and download songs straight onto your computer from Google Play Music, something that neither Pandora nor the two alternatives to it that we’ve listed so far allow you to do. For $10 per month - about the same cost as Spotify Premium or Deezer’s subscription service - you can listen to songs on-demand, as well as create custom radio stations (like you can on Pandora). Google Play Music is one of the most unique sites like Pandora on this list. Deezer also has a subscription service that eliminates commercials between songs and allows for offline listening it costs about the same as Spotify Premium. ![]() On the plus side, Deezer allows you to listen to specific songs on demand and create custom playlists, two things that Pandora does not allow. They’re not as precisely tailored to your tastes as those on Pandora, though they only adhere to what music is in your collection, and what you have listened to recently. ( A popular Pandora alternative from France, Deezer also has “radio stations” functions called “Flow” and “Hear This” that allow you to listen to custom mixes of songs. Oh, and we have a Spotify course, if you’d like to learn about the features of Spotify that we discussed here. Spotify’s subscription service, Spotify Premium, gives similar benefits to Pandora One, but costs almost twice as much. To make up for it, Spotify allows you to search directly for songs, and put together playlists of tunes that you already like. However, you’re only allowed to have 20 of these stations. It has a similar feature to Pandora in that you can start a “station” based on a song, artist, or genre, and then get Spotify to play similar songs that you can approve or disapprove in order to get better results. ![]() ( Spotify is a very popular alternative to Pandora. You can read more about how this works at. Just a heads-up that some of the services we’re reviewing here have affiliate partnerships with us, so we may earn a commission if you visit one of them and buy something. ![]()
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