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User Experiences: Spotify Is Easier To Use, More Flexible 

Along with price and music selection, you have to consider the experience of using a service when making your choice. Spotify has the better user experience—for now.

Ease of Use

Spotify is easier to use than Apple Music. You can open Spotify without much knowledge or experience and start listening to music quickly. Apple Music is a tangle of overstuffed menus and inconsistent behavior across devices.

Even though Spotify is better, its free tier doesn't work very well. When I use it, every second or third song can't play due to errors (though it's eventually possible to make them work).

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Music Discovery

A music service should help you discover new music you'll love. On this front, the competition is really a tie. Spotify is fairly good at presenting related artists, but some recommendations dead end. Apple, on the other hand, hasn't integrated discovery as well as it could, but its expert-driven recommendations are promising and should mature with the service.

Winner: Spotify