It can be very easy to listen to those online music and radio as long as you have proper programs at hand. Definitely, you can listen to music directly online. However, a music program would be more convenient when you are willing to enjoy some music. In this case, you don’t have to shift from site to site and you can listen to all the music and radios you like in one place.

Part 1: Online Music Streaming Sites

At the beginning, some music streaming sites will be listed here so that you can listen to music online. The merits of such music sites are that the music will always be the latest and the site is professional with a lot of choices. The only thing to concern is the cost, because most of these sites require subscriptions

1. Spotify

As one of the well-known music service giants, Spotify music offers a 20 million strong catalogue of tracks available to listen to –- there’s a thriving hub of third-party apps too, like the BBC’s Playlist service among many other, with which to extend your listening.

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Most people will probably use it to listen to individual artists or bands, to create playlists of tracks or to listen to individual albums. However, there's also a "radio" option that plays music it deems related to your original artist of choice. In reality, this isn't the smartest radio out there, so if what you want is automatically created radio stations, there are better options.

2. Apple Music

Apple music provides the real music library that enables you to listen to 30 million songs from the iTunes catalog and any music you’ve purchased from iTunes over the years. Not mention the music videos, radio stations and the tracks of your favorite artists.

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It’s more personalized for you because it can recommend the related music contents to you in the “For You” tab according to your preference settings. The family subscription plan is also a highlight for sharing and enjoying music between family members inside one account conveniently.

3. Deezer

Deezer is a mature music streaming service provider with a catalogue of 30 million tracks available for playback. Like the others, at its most basic it offers playlists, music discovery, favorites and integrated social features but it also offers a wide range of different mobile clients including iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry. It’s also available on Mac/PCs too, as well as via a dedicated Windows 8 app.

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Compare the online music streaming services

Streaming music service

Spotify

Apple music

Deezer

Lowest price

$9.99

$9.99

$9.99

Music library

 35 million songs

50 million songs

53 million songs

Offline music download

3333 mobile downloads per device, three devices, desktop playlist downloads

Unlimited mobile downloads

Unlimited mobile and desktop downloads

Online web browser

Yes

No

Yes

Best sound quality

320Kbps OGG

256Kbps AAC

1411Kbps FLAC

Available countries

Available in 59 countries

Available in 113 countries

Available in 182 countries

Free Version Available

Yes

No

Yes

Mobile Apps

Yes

Yes

Yes

Live Programming

No

Yes

Yes

Non-Music Content

Yes

Yes

Yes

Song Lyrics

No

Yes

Yes

Discovery features

Moderate curation, Discover Weekly playlists and so on.

Strong curation, Beats 1 Radio and genre-based stations.

Strong curation, Facebook integration and Flow mixes, etc.

Supported OS and devices

iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, PS4/PS3 app, Apple Watch, etc.

iOS, Android, iTunes, Apple Watch

Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Xbox One, Apple Watch, etc.

Subscribers

Over 96 million paid users (2018)

56 million (Nov. 2018)

9 million (Sept 2017)

 

Extension: How to Get the Files from Spotify and iTunes Forever by Using Prof. DRM

As a matter of fact, music files you purchased or downloaded from Spotify and iTunes are DRM protected due to the copyright protection. Thus, these files are limited by expiry time or authorized devices. In order to keep Spotify and iTunes music files forever, you have to remove DRM from Spotify music files or iTunes files. And fortunately, Leawo Prof. DRM is the most powerful and best DRM removal software that is commonly used for cracking DRM and getting DRM-free music files to be kept forever.

Prof. DRM includes iTunes DRM Remover, eBook DRM Remover, Spotify DRM Remover, Audible DRM Remover, which is designed to remove DRM protection from iTunes video, music, audiobook and convert M4V to MP4, convert M4P to MP3, convert eBooks to DRM-free epub, mobi, azw3, and other formats. DRM Spotify converter can help you remove DRM from Spotify music and convert them the common music player compatible formats such as MP3, M4B, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC. With this powerful DRM removal program downloaded and installed, you can easily get the files from Spotify and iTunes forever after you remove DRM and convert to common audio formats. Let’s take Spotify DRM removal as an example with the program and follow the guide below:

 

Note that you’d better make sure your Spotify is launched and the music can be played smoothly before you run Leawo Prof. DRM.

Introduce Spotify

Step 1. Import Spotify Music files to Prof. DRM

After you run Prof. DRM, you can click on the Spotify icon on the sub-menu bar to import Spotify music files, including Spotify songs, albums and playlists. Or you can directly drag-n-drop Spotify music files to the program for importing.

Introduce Spotify

If you don’t run Spotify app on your computer, you can also import Spotify music by copying and pasting the URL of the song/album/playlist to the program.

add spotify music

Step 2. Set output format for Spotify music

After importing, all the music files will be listed. Now move your mouse to any one of the songs till the edit icon appears on the right. Click on the icon to enter the pop-up “Edit” panel where you can choose the output format, channel, sample rate and bit rate for the output music file. You can click “Apply to all” to make this setting adopted for all the music files here.

Choose M4A as the output format

Step 3. Choose an output directory to save the music files

In order to save the output files in your desired file folder to make sure you can find the converted files, you can click the “…” button at the bottom to browser and select the accurate output directory you like.

Set output format

Step 4. Start to convert Spotify music files

Since all settings are done, you can click the “Convert” button at the right bottom corner of the panel to start converting the imported Spotify music to DRM-free MP3. And you can get Spotify music kept forever after the conversion.

Choose  output directory

Part 2: Online Radio Streaming Sites

iTunes Radio:

iTunes Radio offers users a choice of more than 250 human-curated and genre-focused radio stations. It offers access from a range of devices, iTunes Radio can be used on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV and allows seamless syncing of playlists between them.

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2. Slacker Radio:

Another radio-style streaming service that's available across a range of platforms, it actually offers more than being able to listen to radio stations. With the free plan, listeners can listen to as much free radios as they can take.

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3.TuneIn Radio:

TuneIn Radio is a little different to the other radio streaming services in this list as it focuses on acting as a hub and player for commercially available radio shows. In total, there are more than 100,000 live stations available, and more than 2 million podcasts.

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Part 3: Online Music Player Recommendations

Except for the music and radio streaming services, there are literally many online music players and some great music player programs available for playing music smoothly. Groove Music, associated with Groove Music Pass music service, would be one of the fantastic music player software for Windows, Xbox video game consoles, Windows Phone, as well as Android and iOS. The Groove catalogue included over 50 million tracks and it works for your own local and cloud stored music as well.

How to play local music files with Groove

When you have got a collection of personal music from your own sources or online stores like iTunes and Google Play, Groove will catalog it and play it for you by building your collection from your local music files. In most cases, all you should do is to find where the local music files are stored on your computer.

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Besides, you can also import iTunes music and other music services with minimal fuss for playing back. And it is quite easy for you to bring your iTunes playlist into this music player.

Step 1. After you install the Groove music app on your Windows 10 PC, open it up and click on the cog icon to open “Settings”.

Step 2. Under the “Music on this PC” tab, there is an option to “Import iTunes playlists”.

Step 3. Click on “Import iTunes playlists”, then hit “Import” button in the pop-up box to start importing.

Groove music app can also get Google Music imported and played, it’s quite powerful music player that you can use for playing music songs.

get Google Music imported

Part 4: Online Music Player Alternatives

There are also other music player alternatives that is capable of helping you get music played and downloaded. And Leawo Music Downloader and Blu-ray player would be strongly recommended here.

Leawo Video Downloader: a handy video downloader and a music player as well, which is able to play online music from YouTube videos or videos from other video sharing sites prior to the download process.

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Blu-ray Player: Leawo Free Blu-ray player software is so powerful and practical media player that it contains all media playback solutions. It supports Blu-ray disc, DVD disc, HD video or even 4K video, ISO file, and audio or music files on Windows PC. It can used to play any music files for totally free. The simple and stunning interface will help you enjoy yourself more.

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Anyway, there are so many options available for you to enjoy music the most online or offline. You can feel free to listen to music with online music streaming services like Spotify and Deezer, or radio streaming services with popular online sites. Or you can get the music kept forever and played back freely on amazing music players. Just feel free for fun.