There are three listening plans available, starting out with a free plan that allows you to skip up to 6 songs per hour. While this is certainly good news for those of you who are operating on a budget, it also means that there is no way of removing ads. Supported by the iPad and many other devices, Songza gives you access to themed playlists that have been curated by the creators.
With these playlists, you can search for artists, comb through genres, or rely on the Music Concierge which will play you songs according to the time of the day or your mood.
Songza is a really cool way of discovering new music. It has its limitations, though. Streaming apps come and go, but one service that has remained a constant household name over the years is the rather brilliant Spotify. Arguably one of the best music streaming apps on the market, Spotify has lost a few fans recently thanks to a number of high-profile artists removing their music. So I think it should be placed other spot and replaced to browse genre stations.
Another problematic thing is that when you search something, it plays a song right away once you got the result. My overall experience with Pandora was quite bad. I think they need to change the structure more intuitive and easy to navigate. Songza is much more simple and easy to use than Pandora.
And they make daily news so that user can get an information about music everyday. I think it is really good strategy to make user keep visiting the site. Back to the homepage, I like the way that they suggests music in simple, nice way. Also, when you search a word, it shows the results very clearly. I think the way they categorized is better than Spotify.
And the banner ads is not that distracting than other services. They should make clear differences if they want to make users keep coming in. Overall, I think Spotify offers the best user experience among three of them with their huge music library and activity-based navigation and consistency.
Songza is my second choice in terms of their simple navigation and non distracting ads and design. Meanwhile, Pandora is really difficult to use for new visitors. It has to be changed to offer better user experience. Spotify vs. They have a simple interface, which probably contributes to why I disliked it so much, and a simple goal.
They simply aim to deliver pre designed playlists to cater to specific activities, moods, decades and even ages. The consequence of this simple goal is a severe lack of features.
That is all that Songza has to offer. A set of playlists tailored to for various topics. You can like or dislike certain songs in a playlist, but I am unsure of how that affects the playlist. Other than the playlists, you are also given a Sleep Timer that will stop your music at a set time.
There is an option to pull up the currently playing song in the Play Store, but that is about the extent of the app. The limited number of skips present in pretty much every free music streaming app and ad banner that runs on the bottom of the app are rather infuriating and the limitations of Songza are just too numerous for my taste.
The worst part is that there is no way to remove these limitations. By that, I mean there is no paid service that will remove the ad and enable unlimited skips. There could be a market for Songza. It would be perfect for the casual listener who just needs background noise, but it is definitely not the music streaming app for me.
After 3 rounds of head to head action between Spotify and Songza, we have to take it to the judges score cards. In reality, Spotify took out Songza in the first round. Spotify offers everything, well the one thing, that Songza offers and a whole lot more. Not to mention that Spotify also manages to do it loads more elegantly than Songza did. Songza is just too simple of an app.
I actually have to thank Songza though. After this experience, I found Spotify to be so vastly superior to Songza that I went out and paid for the premium version of Spotify. However, Songza has another app in the running. So there is a beefed up version of Songza in the form of Play Music that is another contender in the great Epic App Battles of Android! So that is how I rank Songza and Spotify against each other. Which one do you prefer? What is your go-to music streaming service?
Let us know in the comments down below! Well, we are doing both. We are mentioning all the free versions and premium versions. As you can see in the article, I mention the limitations of free Spotify just for people like you who prefer to use free versions. One of the main questions I had regarding both of these apps, was their data usage. I was surprised that it was not covered in your review of both of these apps. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
0コメント