iTunes generally works great for me for maintaining my collection and playback, especially when combined with my home entertainment system. Where it falls apart is Apple Music, iTunes Match and iTunes Store.<p>- iTunes Match is too unreliable when it comes to actually matching songs. The syncing is unreliable. I have songs in my collection now that were manipulated by iTunes Match and now have incorrect artist&#x2F;title entries for some reason. I routinely have an issue where a song will be purchased in iTunes Store but never shows up on other computers without me having to go through a whole process of checking for available downloads (never works), signing in, signing out, etc. which often doesn&#x27;t work until a week later when the song magically shows up or just doesn&#x27;t show up at all.<p>- iTunes Store is fine for buying music, if you know what you want to buy. Apple Match and iTunes are both terrible (in my opinion) for discovering new music that actually matches my own tastes.<p>Right now I am using both Spotify and iTunes. I use Spotify to discover new music which I then buy through the iTunes Store so that I can have it in my official iTunes-based collection. I know people who have started using Spotify as their main source of music but I have an existing collection of about 4000 songs made up of MP3&#x27;s&#x2F;purchased files which I wish to maintain as a single collection. Using Spotify doesn&#x27;t allow me to do that. Adding songs from Apple Music to my music collection seems unpleasant because then it creates a mix of existing transportable MP3&#x27;s that I can move around and Apple Music files that I have no control over.<p>It would be great to have a &quot;single solution&quot; that allowed me to discover new music, purchase it and maintain&#x2F;listen to my collection but I&#x27;ve accepted that I will probably never find that solution.