Social Media and Networking in Music Streaming Services (Bandcamp/Spotify): Which one is better?

After covering both music streaming services, it is now time for us to focus on which is better.

Spotify vs. Bandcamp

Starting with the similarities, for a start they are both streaming services with a huge database of music to listen to. 

Spotify has over 20,000 songs added per day

Spotify's rising popularity is due to its abundance of music in its library and its ability to create and share personalised playlists.

Spotify's utilisation of the social media aspect of things is more external rather than internal compared to Bandcamp.

As mentioned in my 2nd post, the social media aspect comes in with its integration with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.

"Especially with its compatibility with Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, we can share the music we're listening to via Spotify's inbox system to our Facebook friends, or we can share them on your timeline."

Share away the songs and albums you're into! Welcome to the magic of Spotify! 

Bandcamp however, utilises social media differently by making things work internally. A collection of albums or singles that you've bought on Bandcamp being able to be featured on your profile.

As shown in my previous post, an example of a page with a music collection.

"Non-musicians/music fans are able to showcase their Bandcamp music collections, follow their favourite artists, explore the music of their contemporaries, add items to a wishlist, and more."

A feed like this, makes it almost feel like you're on Facebook or Twitter...

 At the end of the day, regardless of these differences, it's all up to personal preferences.

Either way, users will need to pay anyway to get some of its prime features Like, how in Bandcamp, albums and singles will only turn up in your collection if you bought them. If you got them for free, then it won't turn up in the collection.

Spotify has its premium feature, which gives you more of the liberty to stream songs of your choice without hitting "shuffle play"

Not paying for Premium services? That means you gotta try your luck and hope that Shuffle Play picks a song you like among the album you want to listen to...

At the end of the day, they're both great music streaming services that both offer its own perks in social media integration.

Thanks for reading, I'll see you guys at the next post where I conclude this topic (or in other cases, this assignment).

Cheers!