i have always downloaded my entire spotify library on both my iphone and mac

every time I like a song, it gets downloaded; started doing this back in college when unlimited data plans weren't the norm

now worth the storage expense since it allows me to play music i like for focused work in the most remote spots / airplanes

can't go back

Yeah, all of it makes me want to just start downloading MP3s again and setting up a NAS.

Bring back MP3 players and true music ownership! I suppose as long as Spotify is in business, it will be hard to compete against the streamlined experience for those remote spots and airplane scenarios. But if internet connection isn't an issue, me and @bradbarrish were discussing how going offline with music consumption might be the way

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Bring back MP3 players and true music ownership! I suppose as long as Spotify is in business, it will be hard to compete against the streamlined experience for those remote spots and airplane scenarios. But if internet connection isn't an issue, me and @bradbarrish were discussing how going offline with music consumption might be the way 

https://warpcast.com/bradbarrish/0xbd4f6749

Convenience is how they got us hooked, but I believe we often give up too much for it. The DSPs have all the music because the major record labels hold a monopoly on the historical catalog and are happy to give it all away as long as they get most of the profits. But there's still hope for change. For instance, not all the tracks and mixes I've cosigned on catalog.radio are currently available on Spotify. Eventually, new artists will wake up and realize they have more leverage than Spotify and YouTube want them to believe

Convenience is how they got us hooked, but I believe we often give up too much for it. The DSPs have all the music because the major record labels hold a monopoly on the historical catalog and are happy to give it all away as long as they get most of the profits. But there's still hope for change. For instance, not all the tracks and mixes I've cosigned on catalog.radio are currently available on Spotify. Eventually, new artists will wake up and realize they have more leverage than Spotify and YouTube want them to believe

https://catalog.radio/cosigns/0x05ff7cc8b490b38898744037f951f3247673c2ed

all for it, hard to do without convenience being matched

challenge for the audio industry (compared to video) is that all audio streaming platforms have pretty much ALL music while video platforms are quite fragmented in their catalogs 

meaning if I want to watch something that requires me to video streaming platform X, I might download on iTunes instead of opening up another subscription (I do this all the time fwiw) 

but for music, there is no such incentive to download music like people used to do on iTunes pre Spotify

Can’t access a song I bought years ago on iTunes.

So it begins 🫡

Lost an iTunes song recently.

Still not sure what happened, but I’m inching towards an MP3 revival as a result.

Lost an iTunes song recently.

Still not sure what happened, but I’m inching towards an MP3 revival as a result.

https://warpcast.com/semui.eth/0x90dc1898

Biggest challenge, I think, is to get people used to paying for things.