Though anyone can create a SoundCloud account and upload songs unworthy of your time, some huge artists also use it to publish tracks that you won't find anywhere else. Kanye West, for instance, posted a new song over the weekend that you won't even find on Tidal. It’s his fourth track exclusive to SoundCloud.

But bonus tracks only go so far. What matters for a subscription music service is how many paid tracks are available, and SoundCloud Go appears to have far fewer than its top competitors. SoundCloud is advertising a library of 125 million songs, but at least 110 million of those are free, user-uploaded tracks. While Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and the other big streaming services have around 30 million paid songs, SoundCloud Go appears to include closer to 15 million.

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge At least some of your favorite musicians are probably missing

And the gap shows. SoundCloud may have a few exclusive Kanye tracks, but it doesn’t have any of his actual albums. Also missing are Katy Perry, Rihanna, Arcade Fire, Grimes, One Direction, The Beatles, Radiohead, Lady Gaga, The White Stripes, Justin Timberlake, The Black Eyed Peas, and Justin Bieber. (SoundCloud was still adding music to Go during my testing, so it’s possible that some of these artists simply haven’t been added yet. But as of this writing, they’re nowhere to be found. When asked for comment, SoundCloud said it was unable to confirm artists on a case-by-case basis.)

The lack of big hits isn’t Go’s only problem: the service is also really, really difficult to use. Like, I'm continually amazed at just how hard it is to find and play a single song.

SoundCloud Go lives inside of SoundCloud's existing mobile app and desktop site (like many other services, it costs more if you sign up through iOS, so be sure to start elsewhere). In fact, next to nothing has changed for the launch of Go. The only difference is that when you search for a song by a major artist, it'll appear in the results. But even then, only a single result from Go might show up. Mostly, you'll be looking at the same list of remixes and fan accounts that you'd find searching the regular SoundCloud. Another problem is looking for albums instead of single songs. There’s actually no such thing as an album inside SoundCloud Go. When I searched for The Strokes’ Room on Fire, I got 404 songs with "fire" in the title rather than the 11 tracks that make up the album.

If you want to use SoundCloud as a streaming service, you need to be ready to make playlists and explore new music. That's essentially the experience that SoundCloud has always provided, and it's, perhaps, commendable that SoundCloud is staying true to that while launching a paid service. But I've found it painful to use over the past few days that I've been testing it. I just want to listen to the new Kendrick Lamar album; I don't want to have to assemble the album myself, tracking down all the songs and including them in a playlist.