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Innovation isn't always the goal. It's not clear to me that streaming music has actually resulted in better music or a better listening experience. It's just r

• thomastjeffery 9y ago
  Music streaming has resulted in a better discovery experience, which is valuable to users and creators. There is an awful lot of innovation being held back. You are likely unaware, since it is not you who wants to innovate, and you aren't experiencing those innovations.
  • themagician 9y ago
    Just not sure that’s really the case. Discovery hasn’t changed much since Pandora or Last.fm. Vinyl has made a massive comeback. Probably growing at a rate faster than Spotify at this point. I’m really not sure what amazing “innovation” is being held back. The vast majority of social music applications just create “value” by taking revenue from someone else, not by creating new value of any kind. Not really what I think of when I think innovation. The CD was innovative. The iPod was innovative. Spotify was just the last man standing in a long line of music streaming applications that came after music piracy hit its peak. I never found it unique or innovative. They all offered the same damn thing. Most of Spotify’s growth came from spam on the Facebook newsfeed when that was still allowed. The whole social <whatever> app is a bit of a farce. It’s mostly based on quasi-legal theft. If that’s what counts for innovation these days then I don’t want to innovate anymore.