Choosing the Best Streaming Platform: Spotify or Pandora?

Overview

Many music fans are familiar with Spotify and Pandora. But which one is better, Spotify or Pandora? Which one should we choose? You will make your decision after reading the following article.

Spotify and Pandora are two music streaming websites where users can enjoy numerous fantastic music. The biggest difference is the way users enjoy the music. Spotify allows users to select and play any music they like while Pandora works as a radio station to allows users to create a radio station to enjoy their favorite music. Of course, other differences still exist. Check the following information to compare Spotify and Pandora.

Spotify vs Pandora

Commercial music service

Both Spotify and Pandora are commercial music service

Premium

Pandora: Premium members ($4.99/mo) have more privileges, such as ad-free, high audio quality. Free members can also enjoy music but with ads and other limitations.

Spotify: Premium members ($9.99/mo) have more privileges, such as ad-free, music downloading, high audio quality. Free members can also enjoy music but with ads and other limitations.

Sony number

Pandora: More than 1 million

Spotify: 30 million or so

Playlist

Pandora: Users are not allowed to create playlist

Spotify: Users are allowed to create playlist

Listen offline

Pandora: No for free users and Yes for premium users

Spotify: No for free users and Yes for premium users

Music quality

Pandora: 64kbps for free users while 192 kbps for premium users

Spotify: 160 kbps for free users while 320kbps for premium users.

Regional limitation

Pandora: Only in US and not available in Australia and New Zealand since July 31, 2017

Spotify: Available in many popular countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa, North America.

Apps

Pandora: Android app, iOS app and apps for other devices

Spotify: Apps for Apple TV, Chromecast, Insignia, Panasonic, etc.

Pandora: Free users enjoy music with ads, not the premium users.

Spotify: Free users enjoy music with ads, not the premium users.

Play local files

Pandora: No

Spotify: Yes

From the above, we can see that whether Pandora or Spotify we should choose depends on what music quality we want to enjoy and how we enjoy these music. Normally, Spotify provides more music than Pandora and higher music quality than Pandora and allows premium users to download music. Of course, better music service usually means higher price. Generally speaking, Spotify premium costs more than Pandora premium, but sometimes Spotify also provides some discounts which makes Spotify premium lower than Pandora premium in certain periods. If you still do not know which one to choose, start with the Spotify and Pandora free membership.

And also if you want to download Spotify or Pandora music to any music format for offline playback on any device, you can always choose Allavsoft, the best music downloader for Windows and Mac for your Pandora or Spotify music downloading work. Find more about how to download online music from Allavsoft official website.

How to Download Music from Pandora and Spotify

Please follow the step by step guide below to download M3U8 files to your personal devices.

Make Preparation: Free download Allavsoft

Free download the professional Pandora and Spotify Downloader and converter - Allavsoft (for Windows , for Mac ) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.