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Tidal, Deezer

Could someone with experience with music subscription services please advise. My confusion is that these music services advertise that you can download music for offline listening. Wouldn't that be putting music files in your storage...creating a music library? I have had itunes and rhapsody, both of which you can download music files into your computer. Surely there must be others you can do the same? Thanks for any advice
easola01
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easola01 OP
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Reason for music library:

You go to your streaming service one day to listen to your favorite Brian Eno album, and it is gone. Eno is gone, because of licensing changes/disagreements. The idea of streaming is wonderful to me for discovering new music, and also for listening. But I would hate to lose my favorite music just because my streaming service dropped my artist/album.
leemaze
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I enjoy Google Play Music the most for their recommendation algorthims and better mobile app. The SQ on Tidal is slightly better, but i find the app is super buggy, the interface very annoying, and the recommendations to be just plain stupid - like most times it recommends other tracks from the same album I’m listening to! 
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easola01 OP
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Google play. I have heard, but you don't see or hear much in the way of that streaming service. Will look at it. Does it offer offline listening from your computer? Or is it just phone/tablet like tidal? Does it have over 30 million tracks like the better services offer?
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uberwaltz
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I have to say I have zero issues with the tidal app being "buggy" either on phone or desktop.
Not sure what you are running it on.
Just my preference obviously but I found it to be a very easy user friendly interface.
As for recommendation, possibly as I never use that, I always play something I have searched for or previously saved
leemaze
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@easola01 the google mobile app allows downloads but not the computer interface. Not sure why. 

@uberwaltz just this morning, and this is my main problem with Tidal, it just stops playing in the middle of an album! When running in the background on my phone this happens all the time. Have to go to the app and select the next track and then go back to the track it was trying to play. Very frustrating and never happens with Google. 
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