Before streaming services were a thing, I had a very carefully curated and tagged music collection. But these days? Streaming is fine. There are a few songs, less than 10 out of a library of ~ 800, that I’ve added manually.

But you don’t own it! For most people, they don’t care about that. They care about convenience. Open an app, search for a playlist/genre/band/song and hit play.

AI music sucks, because it is so bland and boring. It is certainly possible that it will get better, but for the genres I listen to, I highly doubt that.