How can I listen to music from my phone while running...

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.... without Apple Music? I currently pay £14.99 a month to Apple Music and have a couple of playlists that I listen to a lot while running. I could really do with saving a few quid but obviously once I cancel my subscription the music will disappear off my phone. Is there a cheaper alternative does anyone know?

Amazon music are doing 4 months trial for 99p for new users or spotify with ads is free we pay £14.99 for a family premium member so an individual one will be cheaper than that

Amazon Prime. 7.99 - music for Alexa and phone and deliveries.

I have Amazon music on my phone for 9.99. Amazon prime has a restricted library.

Spotify?

Spotify. You can get it for free but you only get to skip 6 songs per hour and occasionally have to listen to a 30 second advert.

Spotify adverts are designed to torture you. They jump in much louder than the music, a bit like TV ads - very repetitive and deliberately irritating. I'm surprised any companies advertise on them - it's the case study for negative branding. Not surprisingly designed to make you upgrade to the paid version. They should use them in terrorist interrogations.
But if you are only running an hour, or so at a time, perhaps you can cope.

Would purchasing the individual tracks you like work out cheaper for you in the long run? I hate not owning the music I like and even prefer to buy CDs then digitise them, just so as not to be at the mercy of expensive streaming companies.

Set up a YouTube channel and pick the songs you like and make a playlist

I used to do this before using Spotify and there were not too many adverts (that might have changed)

YouTube account not channel

BBC sounds app

Do it the old fashioned way, put all your cds on your computer, plug your phone in to your computer and transfer the music files on to your phone.

This is why I have an Android. Ripped all my CDs and stored on an SD card on my phone.
I appreciate that this a)not entirely helpful for iPhone users b) possibly makes me a bit of a luddite

Google Play Music is £10 a month and has everything I want to listen to on it.

I've got an iPhone. I digitize my CDs using the ITunes App on my PC (not a Mac) then sync them across to my iPhone. I do buy individual tracks from iTunes but I buy a massive amount of CDs as I love having them!

I've got an Iphone with all my CDs ripped onto Itunes and onto my phone, not sure why an Android would be any better.

Certain Vodafone tariffs (including some SIM only ones) include Spotify Premium for free. Would that be an option?

My dh has several thousand songs on his computer ( he's a DJ ) when I want a playlist he puts the songs on my phone . It would probably be quite time consuming for someone to put all your cds on computer but it's his hobby and he enjoys it .

As above, either rip my CDs onto PC via iTunes or buy the albums from Apple via PC /iTunes. Then create playlist and sync to my phone. No need for streaming

Thanks all. I haven't got any CDs any more. With Amazon then can I actually create playlists on my phone?

I use spotify, it's a tenner per month and you can still download. If yiure a student it's a fiver. Theres also a family option.

Spotify - £10 per month and you can download to your phone.

Yes you can create playlists on your phone with amazon. That’s all I use, it does have a very extensive catalogue

Right I will look into Spotify and Amazon thanks everyone x

I have Apple now, but before that I used to make up YouTube playlists for free. Obviously this uses more data, so only the solution if you have a good allowance.

I got Spotify free through my Vodafone contract. Worth seeing if your provider offers anything similar. I understand Amazon music is limited compared to Spotify, but I haven’t looked into this.