vastar iner
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 24, 2021 21:32:53 GMT 1
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Aug 24, 2021 22:39:16 GMT 1
It is a worry but I will always have my CDs and vinyl records along with 6000 MP3s along with word document files containing all the songs in my playlists sorted by decade so I'd atleast have a database to go on to try and rebuild what was missing
But yeah if Spotify just went overnight many of us would be pretty screwed
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Post by greendemon on Aug 24, 2021 22:44:25 GMT 1
Yeah, imma stay under my rock with my CD collection and all the other fossils.
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Post by onehitwonder on Aug 24, 2021 22:47:06 GMT 1
I still have my CDs and even cassettes and around 20 000+ mp3-files on my iPod. I almost sold my iPod Classic last year, but luckily I called the deal off.
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Post by Mic1812 on Aug 30, 2021 11:25:42 GMT 1
Never used spotify. Prefer to buy cds new and second hand and convert them to mp3 for the computer. But i always back them up on an external hardrive or burn them onto dvd discs
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vastar iner
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 31, 2021 9:33:23 GMT 1
^ me too - the CDs are mostly in the garage in plastic boxes so they will be intact if the Apocalypse takes out all computers and storage.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Aug 31, 2021 10:31:38 GMT 1
I still have all of my music on my computer from up until about 6 years ago. There is a ton of stuff I would have bought since then, had it not been for Spotify though, which would cost me an absolute fortune if it were to disappear (because I have to have everything!).
Surely another streaming site would just take over anyway though?
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 31, 2021 10:55:13 GMT 1
What happens when you're favourite song is taken off Spotify? Well up to the end of 2012 I was buying all my music but after 2013 I started using a tool that would convert the music to mp3 to save, just in case, and I did that for those songs that got into my chart.
Maybe illegal, but I'm still paying for Spotify, so it only really affects those that are taken off Spotify. Most of the time, when they take it off Spotify, you can't buy it either - it's withdrawn from everywhere. Sometimes if you contact the artist they will send you an mp3. (It's generally the far more obscure artists for which this happens so they are the kind that will write back to you if you contact them).
I guess if Spotify closes, either a big name will take them over with all their music catalogue, or everyone will have to move over to one of the other streaming sites.
I recall the issues when downloads had DRM and one of the companies closed and those who had bought these tracks would not be able to play them anymore. Soon put an end to DRM on downloads.
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Post by Shireblogger on Aug 31, 2021 11:37:57 GMT 1
Surely the issue is not about Spotify or alternative streaming sites closing ? The potential issue for the future is cost. With growing demands from multiple directions that performers and songwriters get properly compensated for their efforts, and the greedy record companies obviously not going to pay for it out of their own profits, monthly subscription costs will rise. The exponential growth of publishers such as Hipgnosis will also start to shift the power balance a little towards the creators rather than the distributors.
I would expect Spotify, and the others, to start to reduce the content they make available for free (i.e. advertiser paid), and to increase charges faster than inflation. It will be gradual, so few people complain enough to cause any backtracking, but I would think it is likely, given I can't really see how technology or economies of scale can reduce the streaming sites' running costs much further.
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