[orobinson]

This is exactly why I started using Apple Music. Some of my music collection isn’t on streaming platforms but Apple Music let’s me host it and stream it in a library right alongside music I don’t “own”.

I also generally like the paradigm of being able to collect streamed music into a library so I can come back to things again and again. Back when I last used Spotify around 2015 I used the starred playlist to do this but it was no substitute for just being able to see a collection of albums. I’m not sure if Spotify’s UX around having a “library” of music had improved since then.

[RileyJames]

This is why I use Bandcamp.

I don’t trust apple not to change the deal at some point.

Where as with band camp I actually own things.

[xoa]

I mean, I'm 100% with you on Bandcamp being absolutely awesome. But I'm not sure what you mean by this?:

>I don’t trust apple not to change the deal at some point. Where as with band camp I actually own things.

The whole point here though is that the "deal" if you're just doing your own library sync is that it's your own library. Yeah you can listen to Apple Music's streaming stuff too and in that case it could indeed presumably vanish at some point (I don't think it'd be at all about Apple though, it'd be about the actual rights holders, Apple doesn't own the copyright on most[any?] of this stuff). But if one chooses to make their own library the core source of truth, the worst that could happen there would be Apple throwing in the towel on the cloud match stuff. There'd be no more seamless easy sync of libraries between devices in that case (unless they astonished by enabling a selfhost/LAN version of that again) but it's not like you'd lose anything at all. Everything you own you'd still own.

[tempodox]

What I love most about Bandcamp is that you can download your music in lossless compression (ALAC/FLAC). It beats lossy compressions every time with the headphones I use.