I was a big fan of Songza. I logged into Google Play Music for the first time in a long time after they announced Songza was shutting down and all my favorite play lists were already there. It also let me see all the songs I'd listened to and allowed me to purchase them quite easily if I wanted to. Guess that's one way Google might be able to monetize Songza without necessarily charging for the service. Fingers crossed.
I would like to try out spotify more thoroughly but whatever weird ass ports it uses are blocked at my office so there's no hope of streaming it there.
I tried Apple Music and had really high hopes since we are pretty much locked into an Apple ecosystem at home. I found it took forever to load, there were huge gaps between songs, and caching in the middle of songs was pretty much a deal breaker. Now, my iPhone had been having some wifi issues so maybe the problem was on my end and your results may vary (but I do note that songza, spotify, and google music did not have the same problems on the same device).
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