Spotify and Amazon Music both offer a lot of the same features. The Amazon Music mobile app offers integrated support for Alexa voice control. In Spotify's case, it's definitely an advantage to have such a solid desktop app. For instance, the design makes it difficult to use the listening queue mechanism.įor listening on your computer, Amazon Music's web interface is better and simpler to use than its app.
The interface on a Mac is unintuitive and completely unlike its mobile app counterpart. The Amazon Music desktop app, on the other hand, is very utilitarian. In March 2021, the streaming service announced an updated interface to allow offline downloads and give "more control" for creating playlists. Spotify's desktop app is decent and has been refined over more than a decade. This is where the two experiences differ. While most people use music services through their mobile devices, both Spotify and Amazon Music do offer desktop apps as well. Amazon and Spotify each feature a navigation bar across the bottom of their mobile apps with a home screen, search, and collected library of music. The look and feel of both streaming services are similar. Qobuz also has an editorial aspect, with artist profiles, album reviews, news, interviews and more.įor example, to celebrate the Australian launch, there’s a feature on the history of Aussie Hip-Hop, profiling artists like Genesis Owusu, Hilltop Hoods, Seth Sentry and Unlimited Sound.Spotify features an easy to use desktop app.
Though, there’s a little more to the service than just high-fidelity music streaming. For comparison, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal all charge $11.99 per month for their basic plans, while Tidal charges $23.99 per month for its HiFi plan. Its high price tag is a clear indication that Qobuz is specifically targeting serious audiophiles with its service, rather than the general public that Spotify and Apple Music caters to. Qobuz has actually been around since 2007 but has slowly expanded to a number of countries over the years, including the US in 2019, and now Australia and New Zealand in 2021. Positioned as a high-fidelity competitor to Tidal, Qobuz promises an “unparalleled listening experience” and the ”purest sound quality,” available to stream and download in CD quality (or HiFi/HD) or high-resolution studio quality (24-bit, up to 192khz). This is why I was surprised when I received a press release announcing just that, a brand new music streaming service in Australia, Qobuz. If you had asked me back in 2014 before Tidal launched I probably would have said the same thing. If you had asked me yesterday, I would have said there was no more room for new music streaming services in Australia.
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