I wake up and pop on my morning Pandora station. Club Des Belugas. It's a great mix everyday. And, it's getting better. The more I thumbs up a track, or thumbs down it, the better and better the mix gets. After a month of this the number of downs is to about one per session...Maybe. After I get out of bed, 
where I work on my daily newsletter, The Comunicano I head to the shower hearing the musical notes drift in. But once I'm in the "office" of the day part of my home, I switch over to Amazon Music. Often it's one artist for a few hours, with the volume going up and down depending on the conference call schedule. Following lunch I move over to Spotify. There, I've got so many playlists that I can randomize them and just kick back based on my mood, jamming away on the keys (mine) while a never-ending series of musical artist jams on their instrument.
At some point, usually at night, I'll tune into iTunes and realize how Apple's iTunes may have been my first online music love, but my polyamorous music 
service life has evolved. Now I then I jump into Soundcloud to find things that just never made it to the big services. YouTube Music 
comes in now and then too. Their videos remind me of my youth, and MTV, but they lack the VeeJays...oh where are they when you need them. Now and then I drift over to Sirius XM and hear the DJ's of my youth like Meg Griffin, Earl Bailey, Michael Tearson, Jim Ladd and more still talking between songs, though I'll admit do miss the storytelling of Andrew Loog Oldham who left the network a few year's back, and the departed too soon Tom Petty. They both had a way to weave a tale about a song or a band the same way Elton John does on Apple Radio with his regular show.
We now have so many choices, and with Covid-19, so much more time at home to enjoy it all....
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