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Spotify has the best music discovery algorithms and the slickest, snappiest user interface. It leads me down rabbit holes to find new artists and old favorites, based on what I’ve already liked and listened to on the app.
The free tier, with advertisements, defaults to a low-quality 96-Kbps streaming bit rate, but you can bump that up to 160 Kbps. For $12 a month (a $1 increase from the last time we updated this story in January 2024), the Premium tier ditches ads entirely and streams up to 320 Kbps,…
