Kaizen28;646749 Wrote:
>
> I continue to hear about on-line winning this battle and I have dabbled
> with most of these services (Rhapsody / Pandora / Slacker / Spotify) and
> while each is interesting none of them solve the following problems:
> - My taste in music. Try to find "Change your mind" by Gary Numan or
> "Thunderbirds are Go" by MC Parker. (I'm not too sure what this says
> about me though.) My point is that no online library can be
> exhaustive.
> - Music quality. I use FLAC and, well, online isn't going to do that.
>
I believe the streaming services are here to stay for a number of
reasons:
- Most people (especially youths) find everything they like in the
streaming services.
- They are a really good way to discover new music, a lot better than
those 30 seconds previews which amazon and similar sites offer.
- The audio quality is good enough for 80% of all people.
- Younger people are a lot more track oriented than older people who
tends to prefer listening to a whole album.
I think the long term solution for people like yourself is digital
downloads (not streaming) and the reason for that is exactly what you
mention:
- Support for high audio quality.
- Possibility to get music from different stores making it possible to
find the rare music you like which isn't available in Spotify and
similar services. It's pretty much similar to the current situation
where you get some CD's from one store and other CD's from another
store because the first one didn't have the CD you wanted.
- You will still have access to the music after you decide to end your
streaming service subscription.
The challenge with digital downloads is DRM protection and due to this
the music industry is going to continue distributing old fashion CD's
for a while longer, primarily because they believe it's harder for a
buyer to share a physical CD with other people than sharing a physical
downloaded FLAC file. Another big reason the CD will stay is because
it's easier to get people to pay for something physical (the CD) than
paying for a file in the computer. Kind of similar to the
hardware/software industry where it's quite easy to get someone to by a
$99 hardware device but it's quite hard to get someone to buy a $99
software license.
Due to this I think we are going to have three distributions for a long
time:
- Physical media
- File downloads
- Streaming
If people were willing to pay for downloaded files and the music
industry could overcome their fear for piracy the physical media could
become obsolete a lot faster, but this process seems to go very slow so
I don't think it will disappear anytime soon.
--
erland
Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info))
(Developer of 'many plugins/applets'
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer
helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum
and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always
appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate))
------------------------------------------------------------------------
erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89332
_______________________________________________
discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
