If you load your music preferences from various music services including Spotify and Soundcloud, it will also suggest new local music shows that you may like. In order to help you sort through all the chaos and bad user interfaces, we profiled three non-streaming music applications that are worth checking out.Īs an app and website, Bandsintown can help you track your favorite artists and let you know when they’re in town. With the unveiling of Apple Music in June, it’s clear that subscription streaming services have won the lion’s share of music industry.Įven as these streaming services have saturated the market and saddled students (and consumers) with the tyranny of choice, there are still more apps and websites being introduced to help you on your quest to musical nirvana. Instead of shelling out 99 cents a song, like when iTunes was in vogue, or, more often, illegally downloading, many users are turning to streaming services like Spotify, which offers a 50 percent student discount to college students. Unlike music lovers of yore, today’s college students no longer have to rely on friends’ mixtapes, word-of-mouth or the radio to find new music, local concerts and other ways of filling their need for music.

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