The most popular online music streaming app ans sites

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Music is an important thing in life to all of us. Music is a friend who will never leave you. Music is that friend who will understand your feeling. And music an universal language which is understood by everyone. As music is important to our life, listening music in high quality is great. We listen to the music while working, at home and while on the go. There are many music streamming app and site which promises you to provide a good quality music. And the best are those which understands you and provide music for your feeling.

Here I have listed some music streaming apps (or sites) which you can enjoy listing to your favorite music. The list is not ranked on any basis.

Summary:

1. Spotify
2. Google Play Music
3. Pandora
4. Last.fm
5. SoundCloud Go 
6. Slacker Radio
7. AccuRadio
8. MusixHub
9. Amazon Prime
10. Hype Machine
11. Shoutcast

1. Spotify: Free/Paid

Spotify is very popular music streaming platform. Although is only available in certain country it has huge number of users( It is not available in my country too but I use it using VPN). Spotify is currently serving  30 million songs. Spotify gives a free and paid version for music steaming. You can use free version with ad support and some limitaion. In free version can not chose specific tracks, you can only skip six songs an hour. In free version you can not download music for offline use. Spotify is available for Windows,Mac, Linux and android platform. Spotify is good to listen to individual artist, albums and create your own playlist. It has radio streaming feature from your favorite artist. 

The country list includes Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile,Costa Rica, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Malta, Ireland, the United States , Italy, Colombia, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein,Luxembourg, Malaysia,  Mexico, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Lithuania,  the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and Uruguay.

2. Google Play Music: Free/Paid

Google Play Music is also papular music straming platfom. Users with standard accounts can upload and listen to up to 50,000 songs from their personal libraries at no cost. but with a paid subscription to Google Play Music, in addition to the standard features users get access to on-demand streaming of 40 million songs, without advertisements during listening, no limit on number of skips, and offline music playback on the mobile apps. Google Play has a feature to play local music files from your phone. If you go offline you can continue on listening to music from your phone libraris. and the platform provides you for radio streaming.

Google Play Music is only available in those countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Finland, France, Australia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands,Portugal, Ireland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.

3.Pandora

Pandora is pretty different from Spotify. Instead of providing tracks on-demand, Pandora users pick an song and let it create a radio station of similar and related music.Pandora provides a free account that lets you get going without handing over any cash, but there’s a limit to the number of tracks you can skip per hour, per station, as well as how many skips you are allowed to perform per day. Free account holders are able to create up to 100 personalized radio stations of new and old, well-known or obscure, music and comedy.

Pandora is only available in the US, Australia and New Zealand.

4. Last.fm

The Last.fm was developed from two separate sources: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler, which were merged in 2005. Audioscrobbler began as a computer science project of Richard Jones when he attended the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science in the United Kingdom.Jones developed the first plugins, and then opened an API to the community, after which many music players on different operating system platforms were supported. Audioscrobbler was limited to recording music its users played on a registered computer, which allowed for charting and collaborative filtering.

5. SoundCloud Go 

SoundCloud Go is an online audio distribution platform , that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. SoundCloud's content is evenly split between music and other audio. Founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss are the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief technical officer (CTO), respectively. 

SoundCloud Go is now available in:

• Australia
• the USA and its territories:
  • Puerto Rico
  • American Samoa
  • Guam
  • Northern Marianas
  • Virgin Islands
• United Kingdom and its territories:
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
  • Isle of Man
• Ireland
• France and its territories:
  • Guadeloupe
  • Martinique
  • Reunion
• New Zealand
• Canada
• Germany
• Netherlands