The first thing most people consider when buying anything is the price. Streaming services don't shy away from this—subscriptions are everywhere nowadays. But which ones are worth it? For music streaming, Apple Music charges $5.99 per month for students, $10.99 for personal use, and $16.99 for families. Recently, Spotify updated their prices to $11.99 for personal and $19.99 for families, while their student plan remains at $5.99, same as Apple's.

With Spotify's new prices reflecting this year, I have seen a huge influx of comparisons of the two platforms. Apple Music now is cheaper and offers more features on paper. After using both services for about two months, I figured I would make a writing entry that compares the two from my perspective. TL;DR, I have used Spotify for about 4 years now but am leaning towards Apple Music.

This is one aspect of Apple Music that I dislike and prefer the Spotify approach to adding songs to the queue. In Apple Music, when you add songs to the queue, they stack on top of each other. For instance, if you initially queued 4 songs (as shown in the diagram below), and then add a 5th song, it will play next, pushing the previously queued songs down. This stacking behavior becomes extensive if you have a long list of queued songs or want to maintain the order in which you added them. To keep songs in the order you queued them, you have to add them backwards, which can be counterintuitive.

Additionally, when sliding a song over to add it to the queue, Apple Music presents two hidden options: add next or add later, which adds an extra step to the process. This approach offers flexibility to choose whether to add the song immediately or later. But 99% of the time in my experience, I typically want to queue a song to add it to the end of the list, not in front of everything.