To accompany my article on music streaming services that you might wish to choose as alternatives to Spotify, here is a set of five screenshots from each contender, grouped to show how each of them tackles a particular task. Do click on the double-headed arrow in the top right of each picture if you want to see it at full size.
Home pages
This is the first thing you see on each of the six apps, except for Apple Music where you may need to click on "Browse" to get here, and Tidal where I selected "Classical" from the genre drop down.[big
Idagio
Primephonic
Apple
Qobuz
Spotify
Tidal
Search results for "st matthew passion"
This is the result of searching for "st matthew passion". I've then gone down to the "albums" section (or "works" from Idagio) and clicked "show all" or equivalent.
Idagio
Primephonic
Apple
Qobuz
Spotify
Tidal
Detail page with playback
Here is what you see when you've clicked on the found album, scrolled down to the first track and pressed play.
Idagio
Primephonic
Apple
Qobuz
Spotify
Tidal
New releases
Here, I've found my way to the closest I could get to a list of newly released classical albums.
Idagio
Primephonic
Apple
Qobuz
Spotify
Tidal
Playlists
Where possible, I've found a list of playlists curated by artists. In the case of Spotify, this is one list that their AI generated for me based on a classical artist I had been listening to.
Idagio
Primephonic
Apple
Qobuz
Spotify
Tidal
That's all for now. Please refer back to the main article for my summary of the different services and recommendations.
