Music Players - The Battle For Your Ears

With the launching of Apple Music, the horizon where music players and services has once again shifted to make room for one more. The last day in June marked the day Apple and Google into the already competitive music streaming world.

Both companies will offer consumers more options to Spotify, Pandora, and Tidal, while allowing artists more ways to earn money. Because of some new features and inherent advantages, these new additions to the market have a lot of promise for users looking to try something new, and independent musicians hoping to get paid.

After the Taylor Swift hoopla about artists not getting paid during Apple Music’s three-month free trial period, the company finally relented earlier this week. Going forward the service will pay 71.5% of its $9.99 monthly subscription revenue, according to Robert Kondrk, the Vice President of iTunes Content.

So with so many new ways to find music, what will work best for you? We pitted four different services, ones that work specifically with their own players, to see how they measure up to each other. Choose wisely.