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JimH:
In those cases, we built the front end. We've done the back end for others. But that's off topic.
jachin99:
--- Quote from: blgentry on October 05, 2017, 01:50:07 pm ---That's already happened. I know lots of people that have never purchased a CD.
So why and how do you use MC? It's primarily for music files that are local, like CD rips; not streaming. I know MC is capable of interacting with various streaming services and webcasts, but that seems to be a fringe use case.
Brian.
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I use it from time to time for video.
RoderickGI:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on October 04, 2017, 04:19:59 am ---If I had to guess, Microsoft might be the one to acquire Spotify, especially since they're replacing the Groove Music with Spotify.
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--- Quote from: jachin99 on October 05, 2017, 07:51:00 am ---That would be pretty cool to me, and it might be a huge selling point for MS in general. Or MS would try too hard to Tailor it to whatever business model kick they happen to be on at the time and destroy it.
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Don't expect Microsoft to buy anything like Spotify. They are backing away from the consumer market as quickly as they can without completely destroying their reputation. Dropping Groove Music is an example. They have abandoned their "Microsoft Band" sports activity watch line, without ever announcing it. They have all but abandoned Windows 10 Mobile, while denying it. The current CEO wants Microsoft to be a service provider to businesses, and nothing more. I'm not surprised that a company like Microsoft is allowing a CEO to rape and pillage the company to his own benefit when it has been done so often in other businesses and markets to their huge detriment, but I am disappointed.
In fact, I would not be surprised if consumer version of Windows 10 become so unusable in future that they lose their whole installed base in home PCs. All while showing better profits because they have cut costs from all operations to the bone, and initially they will be profitable serving business, until that bubble collapses. Remember IBM? Microsoft are too big to fail? Yeah, ever heard of Kodak? I worked for them, and saw from the inside how badly they had their heads in the sand over digital photography.
Anyway, a little OT, but the point is, streaming is a bad business model at the moment, because users want free music and won't pay enough to sustain it, and no one such as Microsoft is going to step in and magically make it work. I wish they would, but the middlemen who hold the rights to music also keep all the profits. Because that is what they have always done, and will do until the inevitable crisis in the music business hits.
stewart_pk:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on October 05, 2017, 05:33:34 pm ---Anyway, a little OT, but the point is, streaming is a bad business model at the moment, because users want free music and won't pay enough to sustain it...
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If this is the case then all forms of music distribution are a bad business at the moment, agree? So why is streaming being singled out in a thread like this?
JimH:
Because our customers would like us to provide more streaming options.
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