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I'm in the same boat as a very small portion of the music I listen to is western made and hence available on western services. But I think your average non-HN-
by Veratyr 10y ago
I'm in the same boat as a very small portion of the music I listen to is western made and hence available on western services.
But I think your average non-HN-reader is usually going to have fairly conventional tastes and if you look at the most popular music in Western countries going by the Billboard charts, pretty much all of it is streamable.
- shmerl 10y agoTastes differ, and in music especially. So I'd avoid generalizations here. Most of the "mass market" music today is garbage anyway.
- thirdsun 10y agoI understand - however the gaps in the streaming catalog will be different for everyone, depending on taste, which in total results in a vast selection of music not available via streaming, even in western music. No doubt, however, that most people will be fine with that. For me it isn't - I really care about my music and missing certain releases or the risk of losing it at some point isn't an option for me.