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Considering how services like Spotify and Apple Music incourage extra data usage, and randomally delete music as they see fit, I'm finding myself thinking more
by nixpulvis 8y ago
Considering how services like Spotify and Apple Music incourage extra data usage, and randomally delete music as they see fit, I'm finding myself thinking more and more of these services as discovery tools (akin to radio) and less like media players (they aren't).
One day very soon I'll be playing all my music in something else entirely again. While it's impossible to brush off the value of streaming services like Spotify, it's a huge step backwards on many levels.
We must demand better.
- pluc 8y agoWe had better in MP3s but the industry didn't like it. Personally, if you don't own the content I don't think you can whine when it goes away.
- justtopost 8y agoThe point here is we thought we owned access. That occasionally was revoked without notice, or recourse.
- Wowfunhappy 8y ago> The point here is we thought we owned access. We did? It's a subscription service. Of course you don't own access.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoYou can still buy and download MP3s of pretty much anything through Amazon Prime Music.
- briandear 8y agoYou can do that with iTunes as well.
- davemp 8y agoIt feels weird to say but the zune marketplace was the best music platform so far. Who knows if it would have stayed that way if it ever got a decent market share though.
- myself248 8y agoI wasn't gonna touch it with a ten-foot pole after the PlaysForSure debacle.
- slouch 8y agoGrooveshark
- lucasverra 8y agoAudio Galaxy [1] ! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogalaxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogalaxy
- davemp 8y ago*assuming legality is important
- chatmasta 8y agoYou can make songs available offline, meaning they're saved on your device. Not sure what else you could ask for, unless your problem is actually with DRM, not data usage.
- hiccuphippo 8y agoCan't they delete it from your device if so they wanted?
- scarface74 8y agoYou can also buy music from iTunes that you can keep locally. Yes it’s been DRM free for over a decade.
- corint 8y agoYes; with pinning music offline it's still encrypted & within the Spotify app. The app needs to be connected to the internet at least every 30 days to ensure that your subscription is still current (and, presumably, that all those tracks are still permitted to be on your device). I've suffered the same, as content agreements have changed, tracks have been made unavailable in playlists. There's a setting in Spotify to see this; you can disable "hide unplayable tracks in playlists". You'll then see all the affected songs return, but greyed out.
- redwall_hp 8y agoThey've replaced original recordings on my playlists with newer rerecordins, too. It's not the same at all when a band rerecords forty years later...
- HeadsUpHigh 8y agoSame here. RIP original Babe Ruth Runaways recording.
- slouch 8y agoBandcamp has a lot of great music but draws independent artists and small labels by a large margin. Their app and website sort of totally suck, but it's not a subscription model, they promote the buying and downloading of albums.
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- scarface74 8y agoYou can. You can freely mix purchased DRM free music, music from other sources and streaming music on Apple Music.
- npongratz 8y agoI believe GP addressed that: > services like Spotify and Apple Music incourage extra data usage, and randomally delete music as they see fit I certainly wouldn't use a service that deletes my music.
- scarface74 8y agoApple Music doesn’t delete music you own. Even if they lost the license, you could still have a copy on your own computer and your own backups.
- jeromegv 8y agoIt's less than $10/month, what are you expecting? Getting all the music in the world and have the ability to keep it for yourself? They own the music, you are renting a service. All the same music is available for purchase if you want to own it.
- Pharmakon 8y agoBetter already exists, you can buy the mp3/ogg/flac, or you can hoist the Jolly Roger. Either option is better than Spotify in the long run, because your copies can’t be removed at a whim, and there are no TOS.
- driverdan 8y ago> and randomally delete music as they see fit They don't randomly delete things. They remove content due to licensing expiring. Thank our backwards media licensing system for that.
- g45y45 8y agoIts almost like piracy is an important component in preserving the cultural legacy of humanity from IP vandals.
- webninja 8y agoYou can download all of your playlists easily and make them available offline in Spotify. You can even set them to be high fidelity and only download over WiFi. Now with Apple Music you don’t have the option to choose between WiFi/Cellular for downloaded music but Spotify doesn’t have that problem.