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battle music streaming services love or hate Windows 8, you must give credit to Microsoft for their tenacity. Most companies have put their tails between their legs and run home crying after the disaster that was Zune, but Microsoft has doubled to provide a greater effort from renowned Music Xbox

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live with its ecosystem. Thank you to unlimited music streaming and the ability to buy individual songs, music Xbox looks like a bump on the surface. (Get it?) But how new

streaming music

competitor stack up

Spotify

Round 1: music catalog

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device and ease of use are important, but when it gets to the point, the real reason to subscribe to a music service is, well, music. Xbox Music and Spotify stand neck and neck if you intend to stick to streaming, with each offering 18 million songs on demand. Despite the gaps in coverage are very similar, or current service. Pink Floyd, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, for example

Xbox Music

won the nod here because most artists are not yet available for streaming, you can download (after paying) as independent albums and songs in A- la-carte iTunes mode. Spotify does not agree with this skill, but the advantage of Microsoft is not serious if you are only interested in streaming songs.

Xbox Music

focuses on his oh-so-stylish casual design at the expense of usability. "Too Close", indeed.

Winner: Xbox Music

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Round 2: price

melodies with equal before the team, let's take a look at the prices: What streaming platters dirty dirt cheap? Again, this is a close call. Ignoring the A-la-carte Xbox Music Store, a full subscription to one of the streaming service costs $ 10 per month, and each offers up unlimited free advertising-listening, too.

Spotify shines in the details, however. Veteran advertising offers the listener really unlimited, while Xbox Music says his free ride is limited to a fixed number of hours per month after half a year of the rock. Spotify also offers a plan for $ 5 per month for listeners who want to get rid of ads on your client PC, but do not want the camera gantry full subscription theater and home.

Winner: Spotify

Round 3: Device Support

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device, people who did not drink the Kool-Aid Microsoft should not apply to the music of the Xbox. The native Windows service August inclusion is a unique function that services such as Spotify can only dream of, but not Xbox Music PC support is limited to the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 8 phones, you know, the phone platform is not the sale of other shares. Microsoft promises to support Android and iOS will appear next year, but Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 with Zune Marketplace will be imprisoned forever.

Or, more likely Spotify. Spotify works with Windows 7 and Windows 8 evenly, while a premium subscription of $ 10 opens streaming to all major mobile platforms and several great home theater electronics.

Winner: Spotify

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