Your home office should be the place where you can focus, accomplish tasks, and be able to relax from time to time as well – shouldn’t it?
For many people, music can be a great tool to focus the mind and provide background noise when your environment feels just a little too quiet.
With so many different music streaming services available, the top five are narrowed down for you here so you can weigh the pros and cons of each to decide on the best for your home office.
1. Apple Music
Apple is a household name even for those who don’t own or use Apple products, so it’s no surprise that Apple Music is in the top five of the best music streaming services.
This service launched in 2015 to replace Beats Music and is used on iOS devices, Mac, and PC as well as Android devices. It can be used with Apple TV as well. Users can even sync their music to the Apple Watch and have it easily accessible while on the go or during their fitness routines. Apple Music is also enabled with Siri, who can assist users in finding new music to love.
Apple allows new members to participate in a free 90-day trial so you can test before you commit. If you have an iTunes gift card laying around you can use that to pay your subscription fee as well. Membership is less than $10 per month and includes unlimited skips, music recommendations based on past likes, and the ability to customize your music preferences.
2. Spotify
This streaming music service has tens of millions of users across multiple platforms including Android and iOS with free versions and a subscription service available.
Spotify has one of the largest music catalogs with over 30 million songs in its current library and nearly 20,000 songs are added daily. Users can easily access the latest releases as well as exclusive live content and integrate their local music files into a separate tab for convenient access.
Spotify also has up to 30 preselected playlists that cover a broad range of music genres for those interested in discovering new artists. Users can also develop their own personal playlists through their downloaded content.
3. Tidal
The Tidal platform is unique in that it combines lossless audio with HD music videos for your entertainment. While there is no free version of Tidal, this service is available in 31 countries and offers thousands of music video content for users who enjoy watching the videos as well as listening to the music.
Tidal is owned by music artists who launched it as a solution for artists not being fairly compensated for streamed music through other services.
4. Pandora
One of the first popular music streaming services, Pandora Internet Radio streams music as a radio service. Users can control the music by setting preferences for artists, genres, and songs. However, they are not able to download or choose specific songs.
Pandora is excellent for users who want to listen to a variety of music and discover new artists through the Music Genome Project. The free version of Pandora includes commercials and a limited amount of skips, making this service slightly less user-friendly than the others on this list.
5. Slacker Radio
Like Pandora, Slacker Radio is a radio streaming music service with free and subscription-based options with hundreds of stations to choose from.
This service is limited to the United States and Canada and allows users to customize their preferences and curate their own custom content on the radio.
The Choice Is Yours
Music could be a way to make your office hours more productive and you more motivated. Why not give it a try? And the best part is that most of the aforementioned streaming services include free trials, so you should feel free to try out several options and determine which streaming service will be best for you.
