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I definitely think you're in the minority. I don't remember the last time I bought an album or song, but I use streaming music services all the time. Same goes
by shock-value 11y ago
I definitely think you're in the minority.
I don't remember the last time I bought an album or song, but I use streaming music services all the time. Same goes for anyone I know. Admittedly anecdotal but then again so is your assertion.
- vidarh 11y agoI find that interesting because I mostly use streaming services to find music I buy. Largely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough (you'd think that my commute from a densely populated London suburb, along one of the highest density commuter routes in Europe, in to Central London would have decent mobile data coverage, wouldn't you... But you'd be sadly mistaken) to be worth using most of the time. Also because most of them are really quite horrible at picking tracks I want to listen to at any given time overall.... I couldn't imagine relying on those services for most of my listening.
- zzalpha 11y agoLargely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough If you have an Android phone: Google Play All Access. You can offline content to your phone as if you own the music, but you get full access to their complete library. It's pretty brilliant, IMO. Edit: though that doesn't help you if you're looking for a radio-like service... I tend to listen to albums at a time, and discover artists through third party services (e.g., Rate Your Music) that then drive me to sample stuff on Play. So it works well for me.
- jeffbr13 11y agoGoogle Play's radio feature has been amazing in my experience, and way better than Spotify's. Especially for stuff which is a little bit out of the mainstream, the selection-quality is so high that I wouldn't be surprised if they were using some of their Google suggestion-fu to generate it from what tracks users have played together in the past.
- zzalpha 11y agoOh yeah, my only point is offlining/intermittent connectivity and the radio features are kind of at odds with one another... but that's not unique to Google in any way.
- vidarh 11y agoOnce I've decided I like something, I tend to want to actually own it.. Play's opaqueness when it comes to telling me what's DRMd and what isn't (may very well have changed - I haven't bothered checking in a very long time, and to be honest I don't know whether they've ever had DRMd music at all, because their lack of transparency with respect to video content and ebooks mean I never bothered even looking at their music section) has kept me away from using it at all for content. It's the discovery I find annoyingly troublesome.
- zzalpha 11y agoActually, I take it back, All Access lets you download radio stations, too! I'll have to try that some time...
- bigiain 11y agoAn album on Tuesday, and before that on Saturday. (But then I'm one of the people who grew up buying music, I've got ~1,200 albums on vinyl and ~5000 on CD as a testament to my music purchasing past...)
- gibsonje 11y agoHow do you buy an album or song without it being DRM-chained to a particular service? That's my problem with music. I've settled on Spotify for this reason, but I was extremely disappointed to read that I'm probably not contributing in any meaningful way to the less-than-popular artists I listen to.
- eropple 11y agoNothing I've bought on iTunes in the last...five years?...has been DRMed. It's all M4A.
- neon_electro 11y agoBeatport is a great source of DRM-free (320kbps MP3 or WAV) music: https://www.beatport.com/ https://www.beatport.com/
- lmm 11y agoI get them all from Amazon music; it's all non-DRMed MP3. Like most online music has been for a while, tbh.