Does streaming music use data?

The amount of data your service chews up depends on the quality settings. read more

To an audiophile, it does. The more bytes, the clearer the treble, the deeper the bass, the greater difference between loud notes and subtler ones. Spotify, by contrast, offers far higher-quality streaming, up to 320Kbps—although it also has lower-res 96 and 160Kbps settings. read more

As you can imagine, streaming video uses a lot more data than audio does. There's just more information being transmitted. And your network conditions play a big part in how the media is streamed because nobody likes buffering. read more