![]() ITunes Genius was introduced in 2008 with iTunes 8, and is a feature that monitors what music you listen to and uses your tastes to create playlists – so you don’t have to. Instead, Apple creates a playlist for you using the Genius playlists engine, or by playing music ‘similar to’ a selected artist. You cannot choose the exact tracks and artists that play over iTunes Radio’s virtual airwaves, as you can with Spotify – and even Spotify Free. You can download tracks for offline listening with Spotify, but it’s little more than an insurance plan, should your internet connectivity die all of a sudden.įor iTunes Radio to work as a business proposition it needs to curb the service in ways other than the number of tracks you can stream. Spotify’s sole aim is to get people to sign up to its unlimited Premium service, which costs £9.99 a month. Although it’s a streaming service, it remains wedded to ‘old fashioned’ downloads. ITunes Radio wants you to listen to music, and then buy it outright from the iTunes Store. It all comes down to the way these two services operate, and what they are trying to achieve. However, Spotify is a much, much better solution for real music fans looking for their prime music source. ![]() ITunes Radio has occasional ads just like Spotify Free, but there will be no curbing of how much you can listen to, and the service will be free to use for iPad and iPhone owners. Spotify Free is like a drug dealer coaxing you into addiction, before whipping out unlimited music from under your feet, saying you owe him a tenner a month if you want to carry on.Īnd, let’s not forget, Spotify Free only works on computers, not phones or tablets. After six months, you’re given 2.5 hours’ listening a week, which you can stockpile to 10 hours over a month. Spotify offers a free streaming plan, but how much you can listen to is limited – even though you have to listen to adverts every now and then to subsidise costs.įor the first six months, Spotify lets you play as much music as you like. The iTunes library has over 35 million songs, Spotify ‘just’ 20 million according to the latest figures from the company. Look at the pure figures and iTunes Radio sounds more impressive. It’s Apple’s music streaming service, piggy-backing off the immense iTunes catalogue, and will arrive as part of iOS 7.īut how does it compare with the most popular music streaming service in the UK, Spotify?
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