There's also TIDAL.

I was reading that Amazon have just made a real mess of their service, upsetting so many customers. I hardly use it - I only have some freebies, plus the free MP3 versions of CDs I bought in the early 2000s - a nice little bonus, that includes my own music plus some gift albums I sent to friends.

So I can confirm that even though these albums are showing as downloaded, I cannot play them whilst in airplane mode ... terrible!

Consensus on Reddit seems to be that none of them are perfect, with maybe Deezer being slightly better.

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I have looked at Tidal, it looks good and you can import playlists from other services on there. 
The Shuffle thing on Amazon is so frustrating if you want to listen to a particular track. The only good thing is having access to albums you have previously purchased from them.

There is a big choice of streaming music out there. I have an iTunes account with over 5000 tracks on my Mac (which I hardly use) and an iPad without sufficient memory to store it all, so wondering whether Apple Music might be good? 

What's the verdict on streaming services these days ? @bravoman - did you find a good solution?

Spotify free is unusable for me, due to the ads and playlist limitations. OK to play a couple of songs, that's all.

I want to create some party playlists for the summer, and was about to signup to a Spotify trial - 3 months free via PayPal.

I'd forgotten about the 'Amazon Music Prime' - I'm actually a family member on my brother's Prime sub, but it looks like I'm not eligible to get this for free. Pah. (I'm given the option to start a Prime sub. Weird).

So that leaves Amazon Music Unlimited (90 day trial) or the Spotify trial, above.

Anyone with experience of both? Playlist creation, offline listening, etc ?

And how does the artist selection vary - any difference ? Will I be likely to find 99% of 1980s indie chart hits on both services ?

I had a 3 month free trial of Amazon Music which was good but I wasn’t using it enough to justify the monthly costs.

I still have the Prime version but find it’s pretty useless. It lets you create a playlist but shuffles the songs so you don’t listen to what you ask it to play, and I also found that nearly everything I wanted to listen to was Subscription Only.  

Thanks. ? 

Spotify Free has that same annoying limitation - I can search for a song to play, which works fine, but then it seems to go off on its merry way with a predefined playlist (and loud ads).

EDIT: aha! a small comment I spotted - only Spotify has a cross-fade tracks feature - very good, and I use it all the time on my Pulsar phone app.

During personal use, we've found Spotify to be slightly more intuitive and enjoyable, but no-doubt audiophiles will be drawn to Amazon by that extra audio quality.

Spotify's desktop app - is decent and has been refined over more than a decade, whereas the Amazon Music desktop app - is very utilitarian.

We've had spotify as a family for a few years now, £16.99 a month covers 5 of us with premium accounts. It's annoying they have stopped external apps using their service, there were a few good mixing type music apps that could plug into your spotify account but now they've locked it to 1 app on Apple only.

I use Tidal as I have a high def streaming dac at home. 

I have a Tidal HiFi Plus family account so full high definition access for 5 people which is £29.99 a month

It costs me roughly 75p a month.

I used a VPN when I signed up to say I was in Argentina, pay with a foreign currency fee free credit card.

Works great and no need to use the VPN to use it, just when signing up

I tried to sign up for YouTube premium using a VPN to India but my debit card kept rejecting the payment so I gave up! My friend uses Tidal and rates it highly.