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Kids want to own music

8 points by inovica 17y ago

inovica 17y ago
Frankly I'm not sure it's just the 'kids'. I'm 39 and whilst I like the Spotify service, I also like the knowledge that I've got my own music stored. I'd hate to think I'd built up a series of playlists with an online service only for them to disappear overnight for a variety of reasons
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Why go online ? Just set up a media pc with a backup at a friends house in the neighbourhood (have them backup to each other). Cheap, reliable and no overnight disappearances.
  - inovica 17y ago
    I'm talking about the online service. If you rely on a service, and put time and energy into organizing what you like, then the fear is that at some point it might disappear. Possibly a little irrational, but thats why I like to 'own' and store myself
Cecil 17y ago
This link causes FF 3.5.2 to start allocating ram at the rate of 15MB/sec until it crashes. Anyone else?
- gorbachev 17y ago
  Yep. FF 3.0.12.
- cesare 17y ago
  Safari 4.0.2 here. It didn't crash but hanged for a couple of minutes.
nagoff 17y ago
At my startup, psonar, we believe in mp3s vs streaming - particularly for the 'kids'. I sit in front of a computer all day so streaming is ok for me, but teenagers spend far more of their time listening to music away from a computer. ipods, phones etc play a bigger part for them than computers. Its also not just economically that streaming falls down, technologically the battery life and network bandwidth isn't there either - and doesn't show a lot of signs of improving rapidly
Dilpil 17y ago
Makes sense: people download far more music than they listen to.
gorbachev 17y ago
These kids actually think they own the mp3s they download?
jpwagner 17y ago
This article isn't about owning music at all!! In my mind the issue is: do people want to own music or do they want to pay for a subscription--these are not one in the same. The point by the way is valid. People get value out of listening to all-you-can-eat music, so they would pay. The tricky bit is making the transaction simple and automatic.
onreact-com 17y ago
This page has almost overwhelmed my Firefox browser taking up huge resources. Also it's not the original source, just a comment.

8 points by inovica 17y ago

Frankly I'm not sure it's just the 'kids'. I'm 39 and whilst I like the Spotify service, I also like the knowledge that I've got my own music stored. I'd hate to think I'd built up a series of playlists with an online service only for them to disappear overnight for a variety of reasons

jacquesm 17y ago
Why go online ? Just set up a media pc with a backup at a friends house in the neighbourhood (have them backup to each other). Cheap, reliable and no overnight disappearances.
- inovica 17y ago
  I'm talking about the online service. If you rely on a service, and put time and energy into organizing what you like, then the fear is that at some point it might disappear. Possibly a little irrational, but thats why I like to 'own' and store myself

Cecil 17y ago

This link causes FF 3.5.2 to start allocating ram at the rate of 15MB/sec until it crashes. Anyone else?

gorbachev 17y ago
Yep. FF 3.0.12.
cesare 17y ago
Safari 4.0.2 here. It didn't crash but hanged for a couple of minutes.

nagoff 17y ago

At my startup, psonar, we believe in mp3s vs streaming - particularly for the 'kids'. I sit in front of a computer all day so streaming is ok for me, but teenagers spend far more of their time listening to music away from a computer. ipods, phones etc play a bigger part for them than computers. Its also not just economically that streaming falls down, technologically the battery life and network bandwidth isn't there either - and doesn't show a lot of signs of improving rapidly

Dilpil 17y ago

Makes sense: people download far more music than they listen to.

gorbachev 17y ago

These kids actually think they own the mp3s they download?

jpwagner 17y ago

This article isn't about owning music at all!! In my mind the issue is: do people want to own music or do they want to pay for a subscription--these are not one in the same. The point by the way is valid. People get value out of listening to all-you-can-eat music, so they would pay. The tricky bit is making the transaction simple and automatic.

onreact-com 17y ago

This page has almost overwhelmed my Firefox browser taking up huge resources. Also it's not the original source, just a comment.