> I think it’s more of a technology problem syncing owned music between devices, and that these major players, especially Apple, have an incentive to make it ve

> I think it’s more of a technology problem syncing owned music between devices, and that these major players, especially Apple, have an incentive to make it very hard. Uh, iPods and iTunes? DRM-free music from the iTunes Store? >For example, I buy all my music outright from Amazon & Bandcamp, downloaded to my laptop. From there I use the VLC app to propagate the music to my phone, ipad, etc. You've just described iTunes though! And iTunes Match since 2011, for $25/year. It's even DRM-free. That was the way people did music before, and it turns out that when you can rent every album in the world for ten bucks a month nobody wants to be spending twenty bucks on every album they want anymore.