The free versions of YouTube Music and Spotify are decent enough, but upgrading to their premium versions gives you more features and more freedom when listening to your favorite music. Subscription Plans and Device Limitations Of course, you get ads with your music, although some of them are skippable after five seconds. Unlike Spotify Free, you can’t adjust the audio quality settings in the free version of YouTube Music it stays in Normal mode, which is at 128 Kbps, no matter what. Thus, you end up draining your battery more than if you were to listen on Spotify or any other platform. Turning off your screen does the same thing. But that comes with, arguably, a much bigger and more annoying price playing music on the app means you can’t use your phone for anything else, because leaving the app pauses your music.
On the other hand, YouTube Music’s free version lets you play music on-demand and skip tracks however you like. The free version also serves you unskippable ads after every few tracks. With Spotify Premium, however, you can listen to music in Very High quality at 320 Kbps.
With the free version, your audio quality options are limited as well the max setting you can choose is High, which is at 160 Kbps. Song scrubbing also isn’t available, so you can’t skip to any part of a track. The free version also grants you only six skips per hour on mobile devices, and you can’t download songs for offline listening. There are, however, some playlists where you can choose what song you want to play, like Discover Weekly and the Daily Mixes.
Spotify Free only allows you to play music in shuffle mode on most playlists, so you can’t just play any track you want. But just like any freemium service, their free versions offer limited features. YouTube Music vs Spotify: Free Tier Limitations Photo by Filip Havlik from Unsplashīoth YouTube Music and Spotify are freemium music streaming services.
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