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Why Streaming Struggles
fooze:
I usually try to buy my downloads direct from the artist whenever possible.
blgentry:
Almost everyone I know uses some kind of streaming service: Netflix is the most popular, followed by Pandora and Spotify. Oh and of course Amazon.
I've written before about why streaming seems like an awful idea to ME personally. But I think it's the future. Fewer and fewer people are interested in having media that they own. Most people just want instant gratification and that's it.
Brian.
jmone:
What I don't like is the current trend of disaggregation from streaming services. More and More of them are deliberately preventing aggregation progs like MC from being able to browse and play their content. I want one UI to provide a combined view of all my content regardless of if it is local or "cloud" based. We seem to be going down a path of MC for locally stored path an individual apps for each of the streaming services.
JimH:
I'm guessing that the record labels are behind that. They don't want content they've licensed to one company to be used by another. The same is probably true for video services like Netflix. Both the record labels and the movie studios want to do as many deals as they can.
Eventually, this may change. Or not.
JimH:
Apple ends free streaming service:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/brendanklinkenberg/itunes-radio-is-no-longer-free#.lugQbvy13
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