![]() However, if you skip between computers a lot, or perhaps aren’t able to install apps on your work PC, having a browser interface to fall back on may make Rdio and Napster more attractive. Able to afford £10 a month? Spotify offers the best sound quality options, and its relatively immense popularity means Spotify playlists are much more common than those of any other rival. If you’re out to save money, the price difference single-handedly makes Pure Music worth considering. The others do offer £5-a-month options, but these universally limit you to streaming with a computer rather than letting you use a mobile device too. But we can forgive a lot of these issues because the service costs half the price of its rivals.įor £4.99 a month, you can stream all day long from a mobile phone or computer browser. Its apps aren’t as good, its library blocks albums you can play in other services and sound quality isn’t great. Pure Music has gotten a bit of a pasting so far. Rdio -£9.99 a month (£4.99 a month desktops only) Napster – £10 a month (£5 a month for desktops/single home hi-fi systems) Spotify – £9.99 a month (£4.99 desktops only) Napster lets you store offline tracks on your mobile phone or computer and doesn’t mention any particular limit for tracks, saying “You can save as many tracks and albums as you have storage for.” Neat-o. It lets you sync tracks to mobile for offline listening, but seemingly doesn’t let you do the same on a computer. Rdio has slightly more limited offline skills. Napster doesn’t detail any offline limit, and lets you authorise three mobile phones and three computers to listen to these tracks – although no authorisation is needed when you’re just using the web interface. Spotify has set a somewhat arbitrary (but reasonably reasonable) limit of 3,333 tracks to be stored on up to three mobile phones. They’re all DRM’d up to the eyeballs, though, so don’t expect to access them outside the app or once you’ve stopped subscribing to the service. What happens if you lose connection, though? The Pure Lounge app lets you buy music outright and offers access to your locally stores music collection, while the others let you download tracks for use within their respective apps. Pure Music – no offline, but app gives access to iPhone music library and internet radio Napster – unlimited, up to 3 mobiles, desktop app required for use on computer ![]() Spotify – up to 3,333 tracks each on three computers or mobiles However, while the numbers may sound similar, there are plenty of odd disparities seen when actually searching:Īs this quick cross-genre test shows, Spotify seems to have the most complete music collection. It’s just something you have to accept with legit streaming services like these. We encountered “greyed out” albums in all the services, but this is almost universally down to the record labels rather than the services themselves. Pure costs for albums vary, generally between £5 and £8, while tracks are 99p. ![]() In our testing, it seemed to have the worst streaming library – the tracks were there, but at times you’ll only have access to short previews of them. ![]() Pure Music is slightly hamstrung by its integration of a full “On-Demand” music store, though, as plenty of new (and often not that new) albums are blocked for streaming unless you’ve bought the tunes from Pure’s full-on music store. None come close to matching the 28-million strong library of iTunes, but all offer comparable figures, and have deals with all the major labels. Gone are the days of gigantic disparities between streaming services. Pure Music – 17,000,000-plus songs (via 7Digital), some locked to buy only
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