Yes that was my reason for suggesting it.
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I read a review of Presto Music, a UK streaming service concentrating on jazz and classical, if thatās your thing. Free trial is available.
If I may deviate from the topic just slightly, I have to say I am not really a fan of streaming, whether music or TV shows, movies etc.
Itās convenient, yes, and it gives you access to huge repertoire, but you are locked in - as soon as you cancel your subscription you lose access to all that āstuffā.
Also, media gets removed from these services all the time - e.g. I was watching a film on Amazon Prime a few weeks ago, didnāt get around to finishing it, and when I came back to it they had removed it!
The same has happened to me with Apple Music - albums get deleted. I do have an Apple Music subscription currently but Iām just using it to find new music that I might want to buy - Iām not going to rely on it.
So I prefer to buy physical media wherever possible - that way i know I have a copy for future use and am not beholden to the whims of whoever runs these things (or the artists in some cases if they decide they are not getting a good enough deal from Spotify or Apple or whoever and withdraw their material).
And lastly, the sound and picture quality is not as good. Even āApple Losslessā audio sounds flatter and more compressed than listening to the same music on a CD. Movies are even worse - a streamed film is also much more compressed than the same thing off a 4K BluRay.
Each to their own of course, streaming is after all the most popular way to watch and listen to content so fill your boots if you prefer it! Maybe Iām just too picky 
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They struggle with hi res so not sure I would believe lossless
For me, itās not either streaming or CD/LP. But I have hundreds of CDs and I canāt be bothered to root through them or to have them on shelves.
Youāre probably right about the quality of Apple Music. I usually notice that sort and level of compression and dislike it.
I donāt use Apple unless itās to listen to something I canāt find on Tidal.
But Iām buying more vinyl nowadays.
Iām using Apple Music as my playback platform for albums that I have either ripped from CD myself (so they are AIFF format), or that I have bought from the iTunes Store - where the quality is good enough, if itās an album I really want to listen to a lot Iāll buy a CD of it.
And although Iām not using it this way at the moment, when I do have a house in France I will be able to send music to (e.g.) a Sonos device in the kitchen for background music.
I had a look at Roon for this purpose but although it seems quite slick itās still a case of YASM (Yet Another Monthly Subscription) and then there is a sub for Apple Music / Spotify / Tidal / Qobuz etc on top.
So as I am fully immersed in the Apple technosystem I am going to use Apple Music as my library and decide in a few months if itās worth me paying the sub for access to their full catalogue or not.
As for vinyl, I used to have quite a collection but took it all to a charity shop when I moved to Turks & Caicos in 2003 - it just wasnāt practical to take it with me, unlike my CDs (though with many of those I discarded the jewel cases and liners and transported them in wallets, which I somewhat regret now.
And the prices they charge for vinyl these days compared to CD are daft IMHO - two or three times the price of a CD.
It forces you to choose more carefully 
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Bueno. I on the other hand, as a registered cheapskate, have discovered the joys of the CD racks in charity shops. 
Ā£1.99 a pop currently at Oxfam.
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How many pan pipes cdās can one person want ?
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The Number N, where N ā¦ 0.
Actually because I live in a fairly posh part of Surrey the quality of CDs in Oxfam is quite high - not many āGreatest Hits of the 60sā and a fair smattering of Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martins.
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