Best free music apps: free music on Android and iPhone

[What Hi-Fi?]

All the free music and radio streaming apps you need for listening on your Android or iPhone.

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[SmaugTheDragon]

There is a mistake in this article, SoundCloud has an official app for Android.

 

[Mr. C Nation]

Assuming the correction above is correct, here's another: "Amazon has decided against matching Spotify’s free tier " Wrong. I listen to Amz for free every night. It goes like this :-

"Alexa - play me 'Blue in Green' by Miles Davis."

Alexa then gives a lecture on not playing specific tracks unless one has a sub and makes an offer, which I decline " ....but here's a station [ Station?] similar to 'Blue In Green' by Miles Davis' "

And up will come 'Freddie Freeloader' ! I kid you not. That is what happened a few nights ago. The irony was not lost on me. It was followed by almost all the rest of 'Kind of Blue', without me asking.

The other night I asked for 'Mama Roux' by Dr John. Alexa claimed not to know this track, so I asked for 'I WalK On Gilded Splinters' instead. I got the lecture about the sub and would I like to sign up - family m/ship £14.99 - no mention of the single device £3.99 sub. Naturally I declined this so she offered to play 'something similar' which happened to be ..... 'Mama Roux'!

I find that the track she refused to play first off will come up two or three tracks into the free playlist that follows the "... here's a station similar to .." spiel. The trick is to ask for a track that you don't necessarily want to hear at that moment but is tightly aligned to the category/theme/playlist of what you do want to hear. So you may not want to hear 'Girl From Ipanema' [done to death by Jazz FM during their station pre-launch testing at the time of the death of Princess Diana] But up will come 'Desafinado', the track one did want to hear. A playlist of bossa/Stan Getz will follow.

And this, every night, for free. If something comes up which you really can't be doing with, you shut Alexa up and start again. Of course, you're in the hands of the Amz library structure but you are not going to get 'Hey Joe' by Jimi followed by 'When The Saints Go Marching In' by Louis Armstrong.

 

[whatnext]

I don`t use paid music apps I have Internet radios scattered around the house where you can get thousands of free music stations some with no ads and others with very few ads, over in less than 30 seconds. But when I think of it they aren't really ads at all like you get on youtube and tv.

 

[jonlg_uk]

All those platforms listed force you to listen to annoying ads, the only platform i know that doesn't is moodplaylist.com however even that has its limitations.

 

[baxterbos]

All the free music and radio streaming apps you need for listening on your Android or iPhone.

Best free music apps: free music on Android and iPhone : Read more

The BluePlayer app on iPhone is pretty good for music listening.