I have spotify, which is always good.
There is an app called swipefy, I think I pay around $8 a year for it but it allows me to discover new music that I may not have noticed before.
What do other people have that they feel is worth it? I feel like since I have spotify I don’t need things like amazon music or youtube music, or pandora plus.
But apps like swipefy which allow me to discover new music are always good.
Just Spotify as a paid app. It does a reasonable job of recommending songs and, more importantly, songs that I do want to listen to are almost always available. The scant few that aren’t usually aren’t available elsewhere on a streaming service either. YMMV based on your taste in music.
I used to use Pandora way back when but it was much worse at recommending stuff (usually the same batch of songs) and had worse randomization (which is saying something ‘cause Spotify is no gold standard). I never got into Youtube music since the free version wouldn’t allow me to turn off my phone screen and that was just stupid so my testing of it ended nearly immediately. No idea if that’s changed since; haven’t had a reason to try again.
Never dabbled with Deezer and other smaller apps. I think once I was putting in obscure tracks off Spotify into Deezer and the success rate wasn’t high enough to bother testing a switch.
I pay extra to Amazon to be able to access some music. It’s pretty cheap, but is part of Amazon’s nickel-and-dime you to death philosophy.
I’ve been happy with Spotify and I have two other people on my account. No noticeable issue from anyone. It let’s you download songs and play them offline for a month, never seems to hang up and works in multiple foreign countries the world over.
But still I am paying like $21 a month which seems like a lot for a streaming service, but then I recall that I used to spend much more than that back in the day when I was poor on albums, CDs, iTunes and such things as Columbia House/BMG music. Still I have YouTube premium and I keep getting tempted to try it out but I don’t for some reason. I guess it isn’t broke and has not pissed me off enough to bother. 
Spotify and AllMusic.com.
Both are worth it to me.
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ETA: AllMusic is a subscription, but not a streaming service, which is maybe what you were asking for.
I don’t have any paid subscriptions. Generally if I think of a song I want to hear I just find it on YouTube. Which with ublock enabled is ad-free.
On the other hand, YouTube’s recommendations are rather predictable.
I imagine a service might have its uses to provide suggestions for things one hasn’t otherwise encountered, though?
Question for members: If you use any service, is it primarily as as a delivery method, or a discovery method?
It’s very subjective but I have always preferred YouTube Music (previously Google Play) over all of the other music streamers. As a bonus you get YouTube Premium packaged with it for the same price (not YouTube TV, it’s YT without commercials). Plus I get 30% off of that bundled with my cell phone.
I’d say 80/20… maybe 90/10 (delivery/discovery). But that’s a fine ratio for me because I don’t need to discover three new songs a day, I just need a semi-regular trickle to keep things fresh, find new artists and that sort of thing.
Spotify has a weekly feature where it collects a list of thirty recommended tracks. I play through it while waiting for my kid after school and, on a good week, find 2-3 new songs I add to my Liked collection. That’s a fine rate for me… two new songs a week feels pretty good. I also check the tailored New Releases weekly and that’s a collection of artists it knows you like and artists it thinks you’ll like. So sometimes I pick up a track or two from that. You can also set it to add random (tailored) songs into your playlists but I rarely do – my usual driving music is just my Liked collection.
So usually I’m just driving (or washing dishes) and listening to my Liked songs and then I spend a little time a week hearing new stuff and deciding what makes the cut.
We have a two-person subscription to Qobuz. It functions more or less like a paid Spotify account, and costs about the same, but it uses people, not algorithms, to curate lists and suggestions, has reviews and write-ups and news on artists and equipment, and most important for us, pays artists about $0.02 per stream, double what Apple pays and a lot more than Spotify, which pays about $0.004 per stream. The music quality is higher than Spotify, but I doubt my boomer ears can really tell the difference. And unlike Spotify, Qobuz is not putting money into AI war drones.
I’ve had Amazon Music Unlimited for years now (on a gifted subscription) and been happy with it. Every song or album I’ve searched for is always there.