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I think you're spot on at 4). Just the other day I gave up on buying music for this exact reason and went with a YouTube player. This is the service I'm lookin
by CuriousSkeptic 11y ago
I think you're spot on at 4). Just the other day I gave up on buying music for this exact reason and went with a YouTube player.
This is the service I'm looking for:
A free service optimized at promoting new music, or just random radio. Medium bit rate MP3 ok if 320kbps can be sold for a low monthly fee instead. Spotify is way too expensive for this, use case.
An added value store for those rare gems I actually want to spend money on. For me, most importantly, high quality recordings in lossless CD-quality. For other it might be fan memberships to get pre releases or other bonus things.
To me the problem is he either or thing. Either I have to buy lots of insanely expensive downloads in iTunes or something, and then listen only to that. Or, I can get the opportunity to discover new things in Spotify or tidal for equally insanely expensive service fee, but have no option to keep discoveries besides keep paying said insane fee.
- girvo 11y agohttps://blog.bandcamp.com/2014/01/30/bandcamp-app-now-with-music-feed/ https://blog.bandcamp.com/2014/01/30/bandcamp-app-now-with-m... Bandcamp's Music Feed feature is basically the streaming radio bit you're after, and Bandcamp itself will let you purchase and download lossless copies of the music. I wish Bandcamp was even bigger than it is, because it totally deserves to be.
- CuriousSkeptic 11y agoThanks, it did pass my radar, will check it out again. But I realized I left out the hardest requirement, which probably is the killer for most competition, i want to use the same service to listen to mainstream music (at least the old mainstream music I listen to) Edit: OTOH it might be possible to get by with covers only. A search for Pink Floyd certainly didn't disappoint.