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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by alayek on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:58AM (#19308418)
In India, Spotify Premium is 119 INR / month, while Apple Music is 120 INR / month. Spotify also have few other options, like annual membership, and student plans.

While recommendation is off the charts, the collection simply isn't there. Mostly due to licensing issues, I assume.

For instance, really loved the tracks from Suits, and got my own playlist on YouTube too, consisting off some nice tracks compiled from tunefinder.

But the Spotify track list is only a subset, and not all those tracks are available.

Am on iOS, so no Google Pay Music on phone, and for me Apple Music is no worse than Spotify, except when it comes to search.

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by krtkush on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:28AM (#19308519)
> Am on iOS, so no Google Pay Music on phone

What does that mean? Google Play Music works fine on iOS.

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by josteink on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:47AM (#19308582)
And so does YouTube music.
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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by sanketskasar on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @04:36AM (#19309346)
In my experience Apple Music is really good. I have found almost all songs I have searched for. Everything including very old regional songs to international indie artists and Japanese anime openings. PS. Suits soundtrack was one of the very first things I searched for and found many playlists with most tracks on it. And tunefind actually provides direct links to Apple Music so that you can immediately add it to your library.
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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by procinct on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:47AM (#19308886)
Why can’t you use Google Play Music? It’s available on iOS.
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