When it comes to music, I'm a Spotify user. I have an paid account for my family which allows my wife and I to have out own profiles. I've found that for nostalgia, it has most if not all the classic Rock, Pop and Jazz I would ever remotely be able to listen to. It's also got a huge number of podcasts which I also enjoy. I've also found that most of the obscure new music (Prog mostly) that I want to hear is often available there. All in all, a good experience with Spotify for general listening. I am not addressing sound quality of the music which for my "Hey, Google, play..." listening isn't going to matter.
For most of the obscure music I want (and this runs along a wide spectrum of genres), my Bandcamp account performs well for that. Bandcamp is also where I do most of my purchasing. I can spend days exploring new things I've never heard whether it's Rock, NuJazz, Electronic/Ambient, Hip Hop (mostly the heavily political kind) or even stock music.
As an aside and since I work in radio production, most of my stock music listening pleasure is through the service my company pays for which honestly provides access to more than a million tracks across various companies. I sit there at work during my downtime and listen to this stuff saving links to tracks I know I'll need for one sort of commercial/promo or another.
The TV streaming has been something I've struggled with because I frankly could never figure out how to afford these services. It seems that every content company will soon have their own. I've decided on subscribing to them based on need. For example, if I want to watch a new Star Trek show, I'll subscribe to CBS for a month, binge-watch it, and then cancel the subscription. Next month another one, then another the following month. This keeps the budget steady and predictable month to month and lets me see what I need to see.
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