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I used to have a spotify subscription, but it felt weird to have nothing at the end of 6 months. I cancelled it and just started buying music regularly. I spend
by jammygit 8y ago
I used to have a spotify subscription, but it felt weird to have nothing at the end of 6 months. I cancelled it and just started buying music regularly. I spend a lot less and I actually 'own' (ish) a decent sized library now.
- larrik 8y agoI did that. Then I went back to Spotify and simply do both.
- usrusr 8y agoI can relate to that. Given that the music industry as a whole just wants to maximise average spending per person, a package deal of a streaming subscription with a trickle of permanent licences added as the cherry on top could surely entice many to increase their spending to subscription level. Eligibility to once a month promote one favorite track to "keeper" or something like that. I doubt that it would cannibalize much, because I really think that pretty much everyone who currently buys some of the content they already pay for in a subscription is doing so for a physical copy (which would not be part of the cherry-on-top trickle). It also would not threaten the subscription, because the library one could build from that would not reach "cord cutting" volume even after a lifetime of trickle licences. As usual, it won't exist because content owners can never understand that they would not lose anything.
- CDSlice 8y agoWhere are you buying your music from? The iTunes store gives you DRM free files so you do truly own them.
- lmedinas 8y agoActually nowadays you can find really cheap CDs in Amazon (even more than iTunes)and of course rip it to FLAC or Mp3. Or when i can not find the CD in Amazon i usually get from 7digital.