Easy to use and to discover new music
SPECS Cost £9.99/mth, £5.99 (student tier), £16.99 (family tier) Quality 320kbps Files MP3, M4P, MP4 Library size 60 million+ Platforms iOS and Android apps, desktop app, web player, smart TV apps, connected speaker support, cars
FOR Exhaustive discovery features; intuitive interface; free tier
AGAINST Others sound better; no lossless or hi-res (yet)
Despite its critics, Spotify remains comfortably the most popular and convenient way to get your music fix. Not only does it offer decent (by most people’s standards) 320kbps quality, but it also boasts one of the most exhaustive and easy to navigate catalogues – though some big artists, including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, India Arie and Nils Lofgren, are absent after recently taking issue with the…