Spotify VS iTunes - Which Music Service Should You Choose

Back to 90', it is so easy for music lovers to get their dreamed new albums from CD stores. But now, with the growth of cloud computing and streaming services, enjoying the music became a much harder job since you have to make the decision among so many choices.

Spotify arrived in the U.S. a few years ago, and soon became the primary opponent to iTunes. Spotify and iTunes each have individual benefits making it often difficult to choose between the two.

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Spotify VS iTunes Round 1 - Song selection

iTunes Store has the best library of available out there by around 28 million tracks in all. The iTunes Match service allows you to create a 25,000-song personal library as well as anything you buy from the iTunes Store itself.

Also with a big music collection wherever you are at any one time, Spotofy has a very impressive offering.

Spotify VS iTunes Round 2 - Audio Quality

The iTunes music files themselves are bought as AAC encodes at 256kbps. Anything of your own that you choose to add through iTunes Match is, by default, upgraded to this file type. See an iTunes Alternative to Manage iPhone Music >

The AAC type should out-perform MP3s at the same bitrate, so you cannot look forward better audio quality with Spotify except you describe its premiere number.

Spotify VS iTunes Round 3 - Price

The price of track and album downloads is a little bit more on the iTunes Store. There are $0.99 and $1.29 downloads. The other cost to consider is iTunes Match and that comes in at $25.9 a year.

Spotify Premium service comes in at $9.9 per month. You can pay half as much for the Spotify Unlimited service but there's no offline playlists and no mobile access at all to enjoy. Over time, it gets quite expensive but that's what 20 million tracks in your pocket costs.

The Bottom Line

So Spotify or iTunes, which one is better? Before making the choice, keep in mind that none of these services is perfect. For better music streaming service, Spotify for sure gives you more reasons to believe in. While for the pay-per-track download services, iTunes is better with no doubt.