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Should be marked (2018) It would be awesome if music licenses were portable. Holding collections hostage reminds me of how carriers made it difficult or imposs
by bredren 8y ago
Should be marked (2018)
It would be awesome if music licenses were portable. Holding collections hostage reminds me of how carriers made it difficult or impossible to keep your phone number when moving between them.
- kgwxd 8y agoThey are portable if you don't buy through those channels.
- bredren 8y agoI acknowledge this point, though there are efforts to reduce the value of non-subscription digital licensing. For example, exclusive or advanced content only available to streaming subscribers. While brand new exclusive content is hard to imagine being portable (since it is often locked to a particular service) it seems to me that generic user music collections should be made portable.
- iwalton3 8y agoThe Spotify playlists aren't even a license. They are just a list of songs that you want to listen to. The only thing that prevents you from switching services is restrictions on porting the playlists. (Currently, the two ways of getting playlists out of Spotify are the developer oauth tokens and the GDPR export.)
- mfts0 8y agoCouldn't Spotify argue that the creation of the playlist on Spotify and therefore the resulting object "playlist" is a unique property of Spotify and therefore lockable to their service, excludable from APIs...