Best Online Music Streaming Platforms

1. Best online music streaming platforms

2. How to download songs from these platforms free of charge

Without a doubt that Spotify is one of the most famous music streaming servers around the world due to abundant resources of songs, meanwhile, it provides a large number of various genres of podcasts as well. Hence, I believe that we don't have to spend time introducing this outstanding platform anymore since most of the people have known it well already, and today I would like to recommend you all some Spotify alternatives. Just check them out if you want to explore different yet powerful music/podcast streaming servers!

1. TIDAL

TIDAL is a platform for streaming music and entertainment, it offers the original content as well as the exclusive experiences to make the artist and fans get closer with each other. What's more, TIDAL is launched in 53 countries, the music catalog offers more than 60 million music tracks and above 25,000 good quality videos for the music enthusiasts, Hi-Fi audio quality and original video quality are guaranteed by TIDAL.

2. Stitcher

In fact, Stitcher is an on-demand Internet radio service that focuses on news and information radio and podcasts. It provides free online streaming through the website and via native mobile applications such as the Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Palm WebOS. It has been described as “the most popular alternative to the default Apple podcast app” as of 2016. It offers the easiest way to listen to podcasts on your iPhone, iPad, Android, PC, smart speaker – and even in your car.

3. TuneIn

TuneIn is an American company of offering audio streaming service, located in San Francisco, it delivers live news, sports, music, podcasts, and various kinds of content to 60 million active users every month. Up to now, the active users in TuneIn has exceeded 75 million.

4. LiveXLive

LiveXLive is a music streaming platform much like iHeartRadio, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Tidal etc., and it launched back in 2007. Fun fact, LiveXLive is pronounced as Live by Live, so get that right in order to avoid a potential embarrassment. 

5. iHeartRadio

iHeartRadio is a free broadcast, podcast and a streaming radio platform owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its headquartered in New York, United States and was found in April 2008. The service includes more than 250, 000 podcasts and it offers a recommendation system and on-demand functionality.

As we all know that it's necessary to be paid in some scenarios if we desire to listen to music or podcasts, but what if we're on a tight budget? Actually, you can download the music or podcast for offline playback without costing a cent via Leawo Music Recorder, which is an easy-operated audio recording tool, which helps you to record kinds of audio from different sources, such as record the built-in input audio, the computer audio and online music from YouTube, Spotify, iHeartRadio and others. The recorded audio can be saved into MP3 or WAV output format with original quality.