At one point I had amassed aprox 600GB of music with a group of friends. Made hundreds of playlists. The hardest thing was updating m3u pointers to drive nam

At one point I had amassed aprox 600GB of music with a group of friends. Made hundreds of playlists. The hardest thing was updating m3u pointers to drive names for section a b or c as disk sizes shifted till a single drive worked for everything. Fast Forward to All Music is in the Cloud. Hired an eVPA service to take the old playlists and rebuild them on Spotify. Took a while and not every version matches what I had but as long as these can now port to another service in the future [1] it is something I am comfortable will endure. The Atlantic Article also doesn't go into all the buy and sell consolidation now happening with artist's back catalogs that are being recognized as long tail investment grade assets good for many years to come. [1] Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865502