Been using a 3 month trial and teetering towards paying, but I will wait and see what the fruits of the combined GPM/YouTube Red project look like first.
I’m heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, and the project is being led by a very experienced executive from the music business, Lyor Cohen, formerly of Def Jam.
If I could wrangle a decent discount on Spotify I’d probably be fine paying for both. I did used to pay for Spotify Premium back in the day.
Using Google Play Music and paying for it.
Really happy actually. I transferred my one playlist over and got most of the songs! Some of the more indie stuff isn’t on there but most is and I prefer the interface on my phone.
Only annoyance: no native desktop apps
I’m always surprised so many people heavily invested in Google or Apple opt for Spotify over the others.
I’ve always found Spotify’s interface to be hard to use and their recommendations hit and miss, albeit this was over a year ago now. Good to see someone in the google camp is also invested in Google Play Music. I always liked it.
Why don’t you try using the power of the blue tick on Twitter for one? 
Does that actually work for anything? Might try get myself one in that case.
I’m another one who used to use Rdio but switched to Spotify a while ago and would find it difficult to move given the number of playlists I have now built up there. Plus the fact my amplifier has Spotify Connect built in.
My fiance started on Apple Music but has also switched to Spotify because the playlists are far better.
Working in a university I’ve been able to get the student rate of £4.99/month; but don’t tell anyone that 
Been there, done that! Got 3 months free on top of the initial free trial I had. Not sure I can pull the same trick again.
Best thing about being verified is other verified people with tons of followers actually see your replies (there’s a separate tab you get if you’re verified where you only see replies from other verified folks).
Google Play Music is by far the best I’ve ever used. Got the family plan with 5 users who mostly all use daily. Costs £15 a month so works out good value really.
I have the free Amazon Music Prime too but never use it. Not really much incentive as Google Play Music has everything I’m after.
Looks like YouTube Remix is set to replace Google Play Music completely 
If they remove the ability to have your own library on there I’m gonna be pissed off.
No! I love Google Play Music 
Admins: why is this @Marcelkier account still active on the forum? All they do is post links to their illegal software that steals music from artists. They’re not here to add anything constructive to the community.
Amazon Music’s entire library is now free for Prime subscribers
This is a game changer for me. I’ve been thinking about changing from Apple Music to Amazon Prime Music for some time.
I did use Amazon Music Unlimited but I had a free trial of YouTube Premium (from Google One), which includes YouTube Music, and the app is just so much better. I didn’t realise how slow the Amazon Music app actually was. The recommended songs and generated playlists are also a lot better with YouTube Music. I have subsequently started to pay for YouTube Music Premium because of it.
However, I am a student so do get cheaper prices. If I wasn’t and had Prime, I think I could live without shuffle if I still got access to everything.
Shuffle only? No thanks!
Otherwise it’s £9 so not drastically different to other music services which integrate better to (my personal) setup.
That’s fair. The reason I’ve been using Apple Music over Spotify is that it works better with shortcuts. But I invariably listen to playlists on shuffle anyway, so the saving is worthwhile for me.
I also used to use Amazon Music Unlimited but now got a 4 month free trial for YouTube Premium and realy enjoying the experience as the app works much better for me. I’ve still got the free version of Amazon as a Prime customer and that works fine for the Echo’s around the house
An update.
I’m going back to Apple Music.
Shuffle on Amazon doesn’t shuffle in the way I prefer. It just plays a random track from the playlist, so there are plenty of repeats. Apple Music puts the playlist into a random order and plays the music in that order.
Also, Amazon seems to prefer some tracks over others.
I wonder if there’s a financial aspect to that? Are some tracks cheaper for Amazon to stream than others depending on what agreement they have with the artist/music studio? It may only be a tiny difference in price per stream - but at the scale that Amazon are doing it, it’s probably a difference of millions of pounds…
Could be. I have a playlist of about 70+ songs and Amazon plays six or so of them in the first dozen every single time.