Spotify has a slick user environment where you can find plenty of inspiration.
Maikel Dijkhuizen
Spotify offers a free subscription. In return, you regularly hear commercials between the songs. If you don’t want that, you can listen without interruptions for 10.99 euros per month. Furthermore, paid subscribers can listen offline and set higher audio quality. The maximum bit rate is 320 Kbit/s. Unfortunately, the sound quality lags behind that of other providers, such as Deezer, Apple Music and TIDAL. Although Spotify announced the so-called HiFi subscription a few years ago, it has not yet taken off. By the way, there are strong rumors circulating that it will actually happen.
Spotify has a slick user environment where you can find plenty of inspiration. For example, start a playlist generated based on your music preferences. You can also see which albums have recently been released. Other plus points are the extensive range of Dutch podcasts and the very broad platform support.
Product: SPOTIFY music player
Monthly price: free, €5.99 (student), €10.99 (premium),
€14.99 (duo), €17.99 (family)
Positives:
* listen to music for free
* user-friendly user environment
* many podcasts from the Netherlands
Negatives:
* relatively low audio quality