Discover the best services for offline music listening on Android, including Google Play Music, Spotify Premium, Amazon Music Unlimited, Apple Music, and Tida.
Nowadays, music lovers don’t have to spend a lot of time collecting and then transferring thousands of tracks to their smartphones. There are many online services that provide quick access to a huge library of tracks and allow you to save them in memory for offline listening. We’ll tell you about the seven best ones.
“Yandex Music”
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A popular Russian service for listening to music, audiobooks and podcasts both online and offline. For the latter, you will need to subscribe to Plus, and for the first 60 days you can use all the features of Yandex Music for free. After that, the monthly payment will be 399 rubles.
Among the nice features, it is worth highlighting the automatic addition of liked songs to the playlist and the generation of collections based on the compositions the user has listened to.
“VK Music”
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The most popular social network in Russia boasts a huge music library, including thousands of tracks and podcasts. You can enjoy them both in the VK app and in the separate “VK Music” app.
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A subscription is required for offline listening and disabling ads. VK’s terms are much more humane than Yandex’s – three free months instead of two and a monthly fee of 169 rubles instead of 399.
MTC Music
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MTC Music shares a music library with Yandex Music, but is cheaper — 169 rubles per month. At the same time, being a subscriber of this operator is not necessary, although this gives its advantages in the form of MTC Premium. This package includes access to all the features of MTC Music, and a monthly subscription costs 249 rubles.
The functionality is standard for such services and includes offline listening to tracks, automatic generation of playlists based on user preferences, and much more.
“Sound”
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An intelligent application with the ability to download your favorite albums offline and listen to them without internet. For 200 rubles per month, you can search by tracks, tags, titles, genres, artists, listen to and download both individual compositions and audio collections.
There is a free version with limited functionality. It is easy to use thanks to its intuitive interface: select the desired song, click on the three dots on the right, click “Download to phone”. Go to the “Collection” section in the lower right corner, and then to the “Downloaded” tab – your track is saved for the worst times when there is no Internet access.
The “HiFi quality” option will allow you to listen to music with a cleaner sound without compression and loss, but it will take up more space in the device’s memory. In addition to music, you can listen to and download audiobooks and podcasts, create your own playlists. Access to all these functions, including offline listening, is provided by the “SberPrime” subscription, which costs 199 rubles.
SoundCloud
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The largest online music sharing community. The official SoundCloud mobile app provides the ability to listen to music offline. To do this, open the app, find the desired track, click the “heart” under the track and it will be added to the list of your “likes”.
Next time you can just go to “likes” and listen to these music tracks offline. It works for free, but to download tracks to your smartphone, you need to subscribe to SoundCloud Go for $ 4.99 per month. The service does not have Russian localization, but the application interface is translated into Russian.
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YouTube Music
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Like VK, Google has created a separate app for more convenient listening to music and podcasts. Unfortunately, due to sanctions, users from the Russian Federation cannot directly pay for a Premium subscription, without which it is impossible to listen to anything offline. In addition, a number of foreign artists have refused to provide Russians with access to their music.
However, it is still possible to make a payment using workarounds. And to access the entire music library, it is enough to register a foreign account.
Apple Music
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Apple also has its own online music listening service. And it is not exclusive to owners of Apple technology, which is quite funny. But what is not encouraging is a complete repetition of the story with Google – due to sanctions, you will not have access to a number of tracks and the ability to directly pay for a subscription. Without the latter, as many have probably already guessed, you will not be able to listen to anything offline.
Both issues can be resolved in the same way as with YouTube Music.