iN8ter
Well-known member
My original plan was to stick with Apple Music, but I found myself listening to the same music that's already stored on my iPhone (1,400+ songs), so why pay the extra $10 monthly.
Maybe some day I will open back up the monthly subscription, but for now I'm good with my own music.
This is a big reason why I don't use a subscription service.
I discover music on YouTube and by watching movies, competitions, and out and about in the real world. I don't spend much time mucking around a streaming service for that reason, because the libraries are super bloated and the search tends to be weak in many cases.
Apple Music's search is one of the weakest in the bunch.
Since I tend to buy music that catches my ear almost instantly, I have a decently sized library of music that I really like listening to. I don't get much value out of Apple Music, since it's easier to listen to what I have then deal with training it to known what I like.
I don't tend to listen to much popular music, either, and Apple doesn't have really good playlists or stations for things like New Age and Classical. Much of what it has is very stereotypical and not great for discovery, anyways (and there are too many different interpretations of such music to really get much use out of pre-curated material - you have to search to really find the good stuff... and Apple does search terribly).