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> The only convenience over Winamp is social sharing. Spotify also lets you stream any kind of music, anywhere. It's a nifty feature that some people find usef
by hazz99 6y ago
> The only convenience over Winamp is social sharing.
Spotify also lets you stream any kind of music, anywhere. It's a nifty feature that some people find useful.
- ngokevin 6y agoAnd Netflix has nothing over VLC!
- zxcb1 6y agoIt depends on who you are and your habits.
- samtheprogram 6y agoIf you never watch or listen to content you don’t want to buy outright or pirate, sure, VLC has nothing over Netflix or, say, YouTube. Especially if you prefer ad-hoc discovery! Seriously, arguing over these analogies is like arguing between buying books and a for-profit (albeit digital) library. It says more about the comment that brought up the comparison (in the way that it did, as if they are mutually exclusive) than it does about the two services. Like you said, it depends on your habits, but there’s no point in arguing, or denying, that Netflix or Spotify do not offer anything more than VLC or WinAmp respectively. What no one has mentioned is that VLC and WinAmp offer features that the others lack. Somewhere in those features is an argument against vendor lock-in, but that trade-off of features is exactly what revolutionized how most users consume content by default, so I don’t think it’s a very good one. I recently started buying music again for a few different reasons, but I’ll be damned if I lose the discoverability in Spotify.
- zxcb1 6y agoYes, freedom of choice is what everyone wants.
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- reportgunner 6y ago> any kind of music, anywhere That's any kind of music that everyone already listens to and anywhere where you have internet connection. Spotify is the new radio.
- apexalpha 6y agoYes, except this time legally...
- AndrewDucker 6y agoThe radio doesn't let me personally select the next song. That's quite the extra functionality there.
- hazz99 6y agoI have most of my library and radios set to auto-download. They download overnight, so I can pretty much always listen to them, regardless of continuous internet connection.