I am looking at switching music streaming providers. Right now I have Apple Music but keep running into problems. I go through and add albums to my library and then I will listen to each song and rate it. If I don't like it, I don't do anything. If I like a song, I will "Love" it and that song will automatically be added to a "Best Of" playlist. There's currently about 7500 songs in there. I then have my iPhone 7 Plus setup to download that "Best Of" playlist. Anytime I add a song to it (automatically), my iPhone automatically downloads the song. It's all fine and dandy until, for whatever reason, Apple starts removing content. I've had content just get taken down (I'm guessing the streaming rights were expired) and not replace, I've had Apple go through and remove albums and ratings that were already in my library and rated (so I have to do it all over again), and I have a plethora of songs that are mismatched and iTunes/Apple Music keeps mismatching them (often times I'll manually upload a file but then it gets matched with the censored version and I can't do anything about it).
Needless to say, I'm getting tired of this and I've started shopping around. I have no interest in Spotify as their 3333 offline song limit isn't near enough for me. I would also like to avoid Google Music as I have a couple hundred albums that aren't on Google's service and would need uploading. They're in the mpeg-4 AAC format and Google Music will transcode those while uploading resulting in files that are worse quality. So I'm looking at Groove Music. I already faced one limitation; having 1000 songs in a single playlist. So, before I move forward and generation 8 different playlists and download them all to my phone, I need to make sure that Groove Music is stable.
Does content randomly get deleted? Will I get a notification is some songs are no longer available for streaming and will it let me know what songs those are without me having to scroll through a list of 7500 items?
Needless to say, I'm getting tired of this and I've started shopping around. I have no interest in Spotify as their 3333 offline song limit isn't near enough for me. I would also like to avoid Google Music as I have a couple hundred albums that aren't on Google's service and would need uploading. They're in the mpeg-4 AAC format and Google Music will transcode those while uploading resulting in files that are worse quality. So I'm looking at Groove Music. I already faced one limitation; having 1000 songs in a single playlist. So, before I move forward and generation 8 different playlists and download them all to my phone, I need to make sure that Groove Music is stable.
Does content randomly get deleted? Will I get a notification is some songs are no longer available for streaming and will it let me know what songs those are without me having to scroll through a list of 7500 items?