You shouldn’t really have to worry about serious gaps in either library. Still, you can’t argue with the low price of ‘free’. You have severe limits on picking the songs you want to listen to, there are limited skips, reduced sound quality and frequent ad breaks.

Spotify also has a free tier, but frankly it’s not a particularly enjoyable experience with limitations in place designed to get users to upgrade to a paid subscription. This behaves as you would expect, but has a nice extra where each partner’s top songs are pooled into a shared playlist for the pair to enjoy. For $12.99 per month, you can get a ‘Duo’ account aimed squarely at couples. In fact, it seems that the only way to do so is to manually search for what you're looking for and then purchase it.That’s the full list of Apple Music options, but Spotify has two more which might appeal. The &app=iTunes URL trick seems to still work on the desktop version of iTunes, however, but if you want to purchase a song you like on Apple Music on your iPhone or iPad, it's a bit more of a tedious affair. In an effort to push Apple Music, all iTunes links (including those you change manually from Apple Music to include &app=iTunes at the end of the URL) will take you back to the song or album on Apple Music, instead of iTunes. Unfortunately, it seems that Apple has changed the way iTunes music links work on iOS. (I see you, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1.) Instead, when you stumble across non-streamable media in the Music app, you'll be greeted with a depressing alert informing you of its unavailability on your device. There's no direct way to 'Open in iTunes,' even if a song or album isn't supported in Apple Music at all. One frustrating side-effect of this change: It's now much more difficult to buy a song you've found and love on Apple Music.

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