Oh my, the music streaming world just lost 8tracks https://blog.8tracks.com/2019/12/26/to-everything-there-is-a-season/
Murfie, another streaming option also suddenly closed it doors and seemingly not allowing users to get their physical media/data out first. https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21019565/murfie-madison-wisconsin-store-stream-cd-vinyl-collection-closed
Last year, Soundcloud almost went out of business until they got a 100m investment at the last minute.
Hopefully @funkwhale sees a huge uptick in usage.
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> 'Nonetheless, easy, on-demand access to any song has proven to be a must-have requirement; it’s what people are accustomed to in the “ownership” model'
That part is scary. It's not ownership. 🤨 mp3s is the last model that provides ownership.
@eliotberriot @inhji @tklk @funkwhale I may be missing an important emoji...
@FredricT @eliotberriot @tklk @funkwhale yeah that's what I meant. I don't like to have music pulled from underneath me because Spotify has beef with label x or some licensing model changed
@FredricT @eliotberriot @tklk @funkwhale Id rather have only access to some music but own all of it than having access to a lot of music and own nothing at all.
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@tklk @funkwhale the 8tracks blog entry is quite interesting!
Although it's probably not written with that perspective in mind, it screamed "decentralize!" the whole read 😃