#YouTube-Music-music quality

They both offer offline streaming, variable audio quality to save data, as well as an ad-free music listening experience when you go premium. Being a free Spotify user, you can only listen to random songs on a playlist, limited to the automatic audio quality preset, stream music online, create playlists and listen to music on the background. Premium Features Spotify premium users get access to an ad-free listening experience, as well as downloading songs for offline consumption and access to the highest music quality setting that they offer. YouTube Music premium users, on the other hand, get access to an ad-free listening experience, downloading songs for offline consumption, and access to the highest music quality YouTube can offer. Music Quality In terms of music quality, Spotify is offering better music quality right now with their Extreme preset which they claim to be equivalent to 320kbps while YouTube Music is locked at 256kbps AAC on their high preset. Spotify offers better music quality, personally curated playlists, and user experience better than YouTube Music. Google is expanding YouTube Premium's benefits for their subscribers with better audio quality in music videos, faster playback speeds and a jump ahead button. One of them is high-quality audio which originally was for YouTube Music. Read more in our articles including "Spotify vs YouTube Music: Which music streaming service is better?" and "YouTube Music gets new Split-View Player design".