Apple Music isn’t the best streaming music service — it’s just the least annoying::Competitors like Spotify and YouTube Music may be your first choice for music on Android, but you might want to reconsider

  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    My podcasts are free RSS feeds. As for music - you not only pay, but are restricted in what you can do with your music, not to mention stuff from your collection can just disappear. So as I said, if I was dead set on paying, I would rather pay for one album at a time and pirate the rest, maybe pay for what I have downloaded later.

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      11 months ago

      But what can you do with your music that I cant? I can listen to ten albums tomorrow but I can’t buy ten.

      • Moneo@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        The point is Spotify may remove your favourite album and then you can access it. It’s a stupid point though because if their hard drive breaks or they otherwise lose access to the file they have to return to whoever they bought the music from and hope they can still download it.

        It’s like how people point out that when you buy games from steam you don’t actually own the game. Well, yeah no shit, if steam shuts down I can’t download the game anymore, steam is about convenience not ownership.

        There is nothing wrong with talking about the benefits of possessing digital files that cannot be taken away from you, it’s just completely irrelevant to a conversation about streaming services. They are two separate products with their own advantages and disadvantages.