On the phone it just works. I’ve loads of playlists going back years. The playlist creation features make it super easy, suggesting related songs to what you’ve got already. I’ve tonnes of vinyl and CDs and a media server, but for convenience, commonality and variety I have no regrets

Going against the trend here, but i wouldn’t be without spotify. We use the family sub, so I’ve got separate accounts for the family and for our smart speakers. My parents also use my account. We listen to a lot of music and podcasts, and it just works.

Beyond that the only other sub i have is Amazon prime, which we’re kind of stuck with as all our photos are in the cloud using their service. It works pretty well and the fire TV does a slideshow so we actually look at them from time to time.

The rest of the streaming subs we’ve had in the past are long gone. IPTV does the lot, which I use through express VPN.

Just wait until they get banned from reddit, get them to sign up and show them the Boost client (that used to work on reddit) and away they’ll go. That’s how i did it :-)

The NME (popular British music paper) had a website with a chat room/board that I was active on in the late 90s. I was about 17.

They also gave you free webmail with a @nme.com address, so you felt like a music journalist. Unfortunately, they shut it all down out of the blue in the 00s, with little warning, so I lost my primary email address. Would love to recover all those messages, but they are gone forever.