5 Best Music Streaming Apps on Android [Video]

Last week, Google Play Music was updated to adversary music streaming services such the Pandora and the Spotify at the Google I/O. The Play Music of the tech giant has been a success and a great service thus far but it seems not to be on that demand. Anyways, here is a list of some of the best alternative music streaming applications that are available on Android. Go through the discussion below and you can check out a video related to these apps at the bottom.

The reviews of the Magic Radio were pretty interesting as it is a well designed personalized streaming app. It accompanies a good number of amazing features including infinite playlists, podcast subscriptions, etc. It is capable of streaming music to a variety of devices like the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. You can use the Magic Radio for ad-free high quality music streaming and this is available for just a $3.99 per month enabling you to enjoy its massive library of 13 million songs.

Pandora is a well known, successful, and trusted music streaming app in the world and is quite familiar to most Android users. It is not only available on Android but is also available on the web and on iOS as well. The UI of Pandora is user friendly, easy to adopt and much pleasing but in terms of design, it’s a bit tardy. There is a free version of this app and in this; you will have to listen to small ads after every few songs. But you can get rid of the ads and flaunt with a bunch of other features by subscribing to the service paying $3.99 per month or $36 per year.

Songz is one of the popular music streaming services but this service pretty unique as it grants you with a list of precompiled stations to choose from. Hence, if you want some upbeat music while you are engaged with some activity, you can select a precompiled station having upbeat music. This service is available for free and so you will have to tolerate the ads.

Spotify is as popular as the Pandora and is a giant having a library which holds up to of 20 million tracks. The negative side of this service is that it has only been integrated with Facebook. For this service, you can create an account without Facebook but in order to carry out a bit of social networking along with music streaming, you have limited options. Spotify can be accessed and enjoyed anywhere as it is incorporated with a desktop application for this purpose.

For Spotify, the subscription options are many. There is a free one in which you obviously have to tolerate the ads and there is a $4.99 subscription option that eradicates ads as well. Both these subscriptions enable you to listen to music on your laptop or desktop. But if you want to stream music on all your devices, the option for you is the $9.99 premium.

uSound Player is quite different enabling you to search and play songs individually and so you don’t have to rely on any precompiled playlists. With this, you can stream as well as download your desired songs and in order to have quick access to them, you can simply add them to your favorites list. The uSound Player is available for free and hence you won’t find any kind of radio streaming like you have in Pandora and Magic Radio.

The above discussed apps are in tough competition against each other and according to the Google Play Store ratings, their ranks are displayed in the above image. Well, there are many other apps as well like the Play Music, Rdio, and Rhapsody but the new additions are amazing. Check the video embedded below.