Spotify is one of the world's largest music service mainstays and providers. It is a digital audio and media streaming service and is famous to allow its user to have instant access to its colossal library of media, music, songs, and podcasts from all around the world. It is pre-eminent for its sleek and elegant designs with its vibing UI and UX having over 365 million monthly active users, including 165 million premium users ^{Source of statistics}, and crossed over 1 billion downloads on the Google play store .

As aforementioned, Spotify contains ginormous amounts of songs and podcasts. It lets its users to listen and stream music of high quality for free, without paying a single cent. Spotify makes it seem really easy to find the songs you love and discover new music's with its organized genres, collections, and playlists. The types of music vary vastly, from ambient and classical to pop, electric and concert songs, it's up to you to decide. You will have access to Spotify exclusive songs and podcasts that you can not find anywhere else. Even on the basic plan, Spotify machine learning algorithm will vouchsafe personalized playlist made just for you, some of them include "Discover Weekly" in which it will include different songs that it thinks you'll like, about 5 "Daily Mixes" that'll have the songs of the artists and singers you selected in this application software.

• Benefits of Premium

The best thing about Spotify is that it already allows about everything that an average listener will ever need but if you are in love with new songs and musics like me, Spotify's premium features are the real deal. Now let's talk about the advantages of having a premium account. Although Spotify's free plan lets you listen to all the songs, there are some restrictions in the basic (free) plan. The songs will always play in shuffle mode, you can not just pick and select which song you want to listen to from an album, they'll be shuffling from one song to another, and that there is a limited number of skips per hour. You can not skip for an hour now if you've used all 6 skips given to you. Now, that's frustrating even for some average listener to not have full control over what we listen to, right? You can get all that control by availing the premium plans. It avails its premium users to have full control over what, when, and what part of songs you want to listen to. Now, if you notice, I have written "what part of the song" you want to listen to, yeah you read right, you can not move the slider to like fast forward it to 45 seconds or rewind it back to 5th second, this feature also belongs to the premium feature of Spotify. What I personally like about Spotify premium the most is that you can download as many songs you want so you can listen to it offline.

• Quality

Now let's talk about the quality of the songs, free user's get to listen to songs in high quality, they are streamed at 160 kbps, but here's when it gets amazing in premium feature, you can listen to it in extreme quality which will let you stream the songs at about 320 kbps, that's a big jump man.

It's no doubt that Spotify is the leader in the music and podcast industry, however, there are some competitors who are continuously climbing up the ranks. Some of them include Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music but they all dropped points in the case of availability. All those three aren't available in Pakistan, case closed lol and also that Apple Music is platform-dependent, you must have an iPhone -_-. Some might say, why not YouTube? Well here's the answer, you can not download all types of music there. You guys must've seen you can't download most of the songs there.