Agree on the radio part.  I know &quot;curated&quot; stations are the hip new feature on Apple and similar music services but there are tens of thousands of free streaming stations that use the shoutcast&#x2F;icecast protocol and they&#x27;ve been around since the late 1990&#x27;s.<p>The on-demand services are more like a replacement for album&#x2F;track purchases but I&#x27;ve found that bookmarking 10 or 20 favorite Shoutcast stations in anything from Winamp to VLC to any other desktop or mobile app that supports streaming mp3 is like having the best, human-programmed radio dial ever.<p>Even back in the early 2000&#x27;s when I was stuck on 128k&#x2F;sec cellular data I would hook my Treo up to the car stereo and stream 96kbps music when everyone else was paying for XM.  Then with the move to third-gen data networks I got the bump to 800k&#x2F;sec and streaming much nicer 128k-192k stuff was simple.  Sound didn&#x27;t beat a CD but it was better than satellite radio&#x27;s compressed streams a lot of the time.<p>Even today, I usually listen to KEXP&#x27;s stream or Devil&#x27;s Night Radio or something from SomaFM before dicking around on Spotify or Youtube.  There&#x27;s just something to be said for finding stations that are programmed and run by people with a knowledge and love of music that you also may enjoy.  Noticing themes or trends in strings of songs always puts a smile on my face in a way that Pandora or Spotify just never will.