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rish
@rish
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
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
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
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rish
@rish
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
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
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
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rish
@rish
agree. I get pretty annoyed by the fact that buying something on Kindle (applies to any digital media, incl. music) gives you "access" but not ownership one hopes that NFTs and digital ownership will solve for this, lots of work to do you're working on catalog.radio?
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
> one hopes that NFTs and digital ownership will solve for this, lots of work to do I really hope so as well! I don’t work for Catalog, but I do enjoy cosigning records on Catalog Radio. I noticed they announced a new version of their main website 20 days ago, but I think it's request-access only, so I haven’t tried it out yet https://warpcast.com/catalog/0x33cd5f8f
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