> I'd be willing to pay a lot for access to a similar cooperative archival-quality music library not subject to any copyright/licensing issues. Oh my yes. I cu

> I'd be willing to pay a lot for access to a similar cooperative archival-quality music library not subject to any copyright/licensing issues. Oh my yes. I currently pay Tidal $25/month—$20 because I refuse to believe that in 2017 it is economic to stream 4k video but not lossless audio. And tack on $5 for a family member. But I am continually annoyed when I'm listening to an album and I expect a transition into one song, but instead the album skips forward a track or two. I can only assume this is because they've lost distribution rights on a particular song for some infuriating reason. After the advent of streaming music purchases, and about the time subscription services started, Steve Jobs opined that nobody would want to rent music when you could own it. At that time, I thought that this was old man Jobs stuck in the past. And it sort of was, based on the popularity of Spotify and evidenced by Apple's capitulation. But... I find myself increasingly frustrated by being a serf and being totally at the whims of profit-driven licensing schemes. And this is why I want something similar to what.cd (I didn't even know about it until it was dead). I'm happy to pay for what I use, but FFS, the idea that we're letting chunks of our culture die because we lack the legal mechanisms to preserve it all makes me just crazy.