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what's up prize five fans i'm brian tong and hold on to your butts for the best streaming music service battle it's a Throwdown showdown between Apple music and Spotify the judge and the jury for this fight is you know who regulate a ding tone there will be no scoring in this fight but I'll decide a winner for each round the final prize fight King of the Ring will be the competitor with the most rounds one let's get it on round one is design and Apple is known for the cleanest and minimalist design in the world but that's not the case with Apple music it's a visual overload with album art galore different themes of graphics and a navigation bar that's always there what almost looks like five different apps in one with for you new music video Kinect and my music it's really a mess now Spotify takes a cleaner approach with the navigation bar on the side that makes the overall app look cleaner it's made home screen features chart-toppers new releases and a list of icons for different genres that's straightforward but I wish there was a faster way to have my playlists right on the main screen both apps feature the song bar that you tap to expand and swipe down and put it away but it only offers playing pods control unless you expand it overall Spotify keeps it simpler and takes this first round next round as values we're breaking up value into two separate rounds because these services really have two different offerings first up paid subscribers now Spotify and Apple both offer a $10 per month subscription plan that gives you access to their entire library online or offline but when you're talking about a family plan Apple allows six accounts to share an Apple music plan for just $15 now that's a steal because each additional member you add on Spotify will cost $5 a month so do the math and six people sharing a Spotify plan will cost 35 bucks a month compared to six people on an Apple music plan for $15 a month after music takes round two now round three is all about free this is where Spotify strikes back with an ad-supported unlimited streaming plan that works on both your desktop and mobile devices this is a huge win and something that Apple can't even come close to Apple musics free plan gives you a three month trial of the service Apple Radio looks to remain free for now but you won't have access to Apple's music library at all Spotify takes around three and it's the biggest differentiator between these services round four is music selection both services have a music library of roughly 30 million songs and growing but Apple music has shown it's getting more exclusive content with big-time names like Taylor Swift's 1989 and dr. Dre's the chronic albums only being available on Apple music and new songs released by Pharrell Nine Inch Nails and Eminem again only being available on Apple music they've already shown that they're serious about content that you can't get anywhere else now Spotify is radio stations including arrows like the 80s and 90s are nowhere to be found on Apple radio but exclusive content is king here and Apple music takes round four we're tied at two rounds apiece the final round that decides it all in species Spotify streams had a 320 kilobits per second bitrate Apple streams that are reported to 56th but they won't officially reveal that the most people won't be able to tell the truth through earbuds but it's still a difference Apple users benefit from Siri integration that allows you to call up chart-toppers and more beats one is the biggest Apple music feature with its unique 24-hour radio station that I love but you can listen to it with or without a subscription the killer Spotify feature is Spotify running that detects the tempo you're running at and matches it with music from a music genre that you pick and really it's awesome but the biggest difference to me is that Spotify allows you to bring in your current music library through their desktop app and mix it in with a subscription service compared to Apple music that forces their matching feature now the problem Apple musics matching can completely destroy your current library change the album art change the metadata and replace explicit lyric versions with clean versions and I stay away from it completely Spotify takes round 5 so let's check out the final results and in another prizefight slobberknocker Apple music and Spotify went back and forth but in the end Spotify takes this prizefight three rounds of two and as your prize fight winner now sometimes the service you end up picking comes down to the ecosystem you're in but in this first battle of many more to come Spotify is the King of the Ring i'm brian tong thanks watching and we'll catch you all next time for another prize bye well better yeah you