The 4 Best Music Streaming Apps for Your Commute

Whether you’re setting off on a long car trip or just settling in for the daily commute to work, you shouldn’t have to do it in silence. We’ve put together a list of music streaming apps that put out the best music for grooving your way down the road.

Spotify

Spotify is well known and well established around the world, offering access in 60 countries to more than 60 million users. Another big benefit of Spotify is that you can save music and playlists for listening offline. To access this feature, you must have a premium account, which costs $9.99 per month and $4.99 per month for every additional family member. Spotify boasts a catalog of more than 20 million songs that you can browse by artist, genre, or album. You can make, share, and use playlists to match your mood, event, or whim du jour. Most of these options are available on the free version, but a premium account gets rid of advertisements.

Pandora

Keeps it basic and simple: The free version of Pandora allows you to create up to 100 stations for streaming internet radio. Just pick an artist, genre, or song, and it will create a radio station around it. Give a song a thumbs up or thumbs down to help curate your station to play exactly what you want. Pandora wants you to discover music and aggregates content based on the Music Genome Project’s algorithm. Pandora helps you find music that you didn’t even know you liked. Upgrade to the paid version, and the pesky ads go away.

Amazon

Amazon Music comes free with an Amazon Prime membership. Amazon Music offers premade playlists and Prime Stations, which are similar to internet radio stations. Listening is ad-free. Amazon Music allows you to share your music to its cloud and access it on all of your devices, including phone, tablet, and computer. You can download playlists and save them to your devices for listening without Wi-Fi.

Google Play

Google Play is similar to a cloud-based music player and allows you to take your entire music collection anywhere you go. What’s especially great about Google Play is the innovation it offers. There are always new ideas and ways to make the product better for the user. You can upload up to 50,000 songs to the Google Play database or get curated playlists and instant mixes. The automatically created playlists are a service from Songza, which was purchased by Google. Songza, the originator of mood-based playlists, still does them better than anyone else. Playlists can also be made based off the music you already own and are available offline, letting you stream wherever you are.

All of these services offer some of their benefits for free, or you may have to pay a membership fee if you want ad-free listening. You can try them all out with a free version and upgrade when you find something you like. Whichever service you choose, we hope you enjoy listening to your music and creating, or just downloading, great playlists to help your drive go by a little bit faster.

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