Spotify vs Apple Music
A first-hand comparison of Spotify and Apple Music — sound quality, price, the three-way matchup with Amazon Music and YouTube Music, migrating your library between them, and whether self-hosting your own music library beats both.
Part 4
Spotify to Apple Music: A Tested Migration
Price and sound quality rarely keep people on Spotify -- years of playlists do. A real migration run with two transfer tools, tracking exactly what transferred, what needed manual fixing, and the real free-tier limits on each.
Part 5
Self-Hosted Music vs Spotify: Worth It?
Spotify Family now costs $21.99/mo. A real cost and maintenance-time comparison against self-hosting Navidrome on hardware you already own, a dedicated Pi, or a cheap cloud VPS -- and when it's actually worth ditching streaming.
Part 6
Spotify vs Apple Music: The 2026 Comparison
Two things flip the old advice in 2026: Spotify now has real lossless audio, and Apple Music is cheaper on most tiers. A decision table routing you to the one factor that should decide it, plus links to the full sound-quality, price, and three-way breakdowns.