Thoughts and suggestions please

FWIW, I second your concerns about music disappearing from streaming services.  It's happened to me.  If there's an album I particularly cherish, I purchased it.  I have a NAS already set up so storage isn't a problem, but you've gotten some good advice there.

Regarding the "justice" of streaming, like it or not, it's not going away.  I'll say this:  For every artist or group I particularly like and listen to regularly, there are, I would estimate, about two dozen I have at least sampled and often added to my favorites for repeat listening.  These are artists who, twenty years ago, never would have gotten a dime from me.  In addition, many of these chance encounters are indy artists or very small labels that never would have gotten even a hint of exposure under the old system of distribution.

@larsman 

No doubt she is swinging her weight around. I don't stream but I cannot imagine a service not having her on their artist list. And it's likely she has broken records in streaming regards, so figure she gets Bobby Bonilla money! Ever since she got hurt for selling her rights to her music early on in her career, I am sure she has the A-team on it.  

@dogearedaudio 

Aren't streaming services each trying to find their own niche in regards to genre? It would be great if there was a streaming service that was half price of others and marketed itself to finding "new music" that you describe by scrolling through new and interesting artists. I struggle to find new artists, so I look at online playlists from radio stations and then sample the artists on YouTube, but that is not real efficient. 

@goodlistening64 

Maybe.  Apple Classical was something else, I forget what, but it was a highly curated project and Apple seems to have maintained that kept that.  Qobuz, Tidal and Spotify seem to be vying to cover everything.  I listen to classical and jazz and find Qobuz to sound best in my system.   I suscbribe to Presto Music's jazz and classical newsletters, and I visit sites like Musicweb International to read classical reviews.  I wouldn't know about contemporary music but there must be blogs or review sites.  I find Qobuz's Discover pages pretty good for seeing new releases.

@dogearedaudio 

I guess it will be a fight until the end. Using my investigative powers, I found that Qobuz is the defacto - audiophile choice - as well as the profound best place to listen to classical music. Also ran across Deezer, which must be on the ropes by now.

Bandcamp has a great layout and it is easy to listen to music but after an hour of listening to bands that were less than promising, I gave up. Radio stations would seem to have done the work I am doing before they air a song, so it was clearly a "meh" moment. 

@ronboco - hope you are getting some helpful information.