Apple Music VS Pandora: Which's Your Preference?

There are more and more participants in the streaming music service market. Apple Music and Pandora are among them. Apple Music vs Pandora: Which one do you prefer?

Apple Music allows you to listen to tens of millions of great songs. It has many wonderful features, including downloading songs and playing them offline, displaying lyrics in real time, listening across devices, recommending new songs according to your preferences, and Selected playlists from editors, etc.

Pandora is one of the selected apps of the Apple Store, music, and multimedia software. It is committed to providing users with free music and broadcasting and has a certain user base in North America.

This article will cover a comparison between Pandora vs Apple Music.

Part 1. Getting Music - Apple Music VS Pandora

When entering the main interface of Apple Music, you will see a brief interface with detailed classification and clear content. "Listen Now" is the easiest way to find out and play what you love. "Search" provides the various genres of music including pop, country, oldies, reggae, etc. for you. You can add your favorite music to the Library and create your playlist.

The method to get music on Pandora Music vs Apple Music is both easy. It is to click on the search box and you will see the latitude database divided by singer, song, author, and style. If you build a radio station, it will automatically be placed under "random play" when playing, and you can choose to be in this directory Continue to build a station or share it, learn more and rename it. Among them are more detailed information about the singer, similar singers, and other user reviews.

Part 2. Recommending Music - Pandora VS Apple Music

These music apps all hope to recommend songs to users. The first step is to understand the user. Likes and dislikes are the simplest criteria.

The operation on Apple Music is that the song will have three buttons: star, play, and next. If the user clicks the star, there will be three options "Play More Like This", "Never Play This Song", and "Add to iTunes Wish List".

Pandora uses a thumbs up and down to directly express like or dislike. In terms of recommending songs, Pandora premium vs Apple Music has a clear advantage. When listening to music on Pandora, you can see that the characteristics of a song described by Pandora are refined to the dimensions of the song's arrangement, instrument collocation, instrument performance characteristics, style, roots, vocal characteristics, tunes, melody characteristics, and so on. It is very detailed and professional, which Apple Music can't do.

Part 3. Commercial Model - Pandora Music VS Apple Music

There are two modes of online music player, one is charging, the other is free adding advertisement.

The monthly subscription of Pandora is $9.99. Its free version is mainly advertising. Pandora has a lot of advertisements, including image ads and video ads (ranging from 16-27 seconds).

The cost of Apple Music vs Pandora is a little different. Apple Music contains 3 kings of plans which are individual plan ($9.99 monthly), family plan ($14.99 monthly for 6 persons), and student plan ($4.99 monthly). The model of Apple Music is very clear. It's to guide users to Apple Music for paid downloads.

Part 4. Comparison Table of Pandora Premium VS Apple Music

You can see the difference between Apple Music vs Pandora premium through the table. The two apps both have a free version with ads imported. However, Pandora's image ads make the user experience worse, because they will obscure a large part of the interface. If you want to click to know more about the song information, you may accidentally click on the ad.

When comparing music quality, Apple Music has an advantage that both free users and subscribers can hear high-quality lossless music. But The sound quality that Pandora Plus and Premium users can listen to is still different.

Besides, the available countries of Pandora are less while Apple Music is available over in 100 countries. The cost of Apple Music vs Pandora hasn't many differences.

Part 5. Conclusion

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