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IMHO the $10 most streaming services charge is cheaper than the purchase of additional high speed data to prevent throttling (it will eventually get used up anyway). I would rather pay the $10 for offline access, than to buy more data.
I simply prefer to own my music and there are a lot of people like me.
God forbid I lose my job and am unable to find one for awhile. Time to cut expenses...bye bye music service. Now what? Back to the free services. Not me (he says all smugly ), nope I will always have a large collection always available at no monthly cost.
And let's not even mention when some service doesn't have the song you want or instead of the band you want they play some crappy cover because they don't have the rights. May not happen often, but happen it does.
Of course streaming is only going to increase, especially with Apple joining the fray. But I'm going to bet when my son retires (that would be like 60 years from now), people will still be buying music to keep.
People like me that just want to hear music will stick streaming services. True fans, that attend concerts and already have a large collection, will purchase music. Neither streaming, nor purchasing, will ever go away.
I rarely purchase music. I purchased like 5 albums in over 30 years. Radio was always good enough for me. So streaming is just a natural extension. But, thanks to mixtapes, I do have a collection of 7,000 songs. I also download to music from streaming services and listen to it offline. MixRadio and Noisetrade are the best, if you want to own music but don't want to pay for it. Rdio also has a plan for $5 a month. Its only 25 songs, but for a casual listener like myself it works. Also Xbox and Google Play, if you want to listen to your own collection off the cloud.
I simply prefer to own my music and there are a lot of people like me.
God forbid I lose my job and am unable to find one for awhile. Time to cut expenses...bye bye music service. Now what? Back to the free services. Not me (he says all smugly ), nope I will always have a large collection always available at no monthly cost.
And let's not even mention when some service doesn't have the song you want or instead of the band you want they play some crappy cover because they don't have the rights. May not happen often, but happen it does.
Of course streaming is only going to increase, especially with Apple joining the fray. But I'm going to bet when my son retires (that would be like 60 years from now), people will still be buying music to keep.
Owning is cheaper in the long run. Doesn't matter if streaming has 20 million tracks or 2 billion songs. Songs are also routinely rotated in and out of streaming services. It's like shopping at a thrift store.
Not to even mention music acquired from friends that also own music. Or CD's borrowed and ripped from the library. Or using a legit service, like Freegal, that if supported by your local library allows you to download x amount of sings every week totally for free.
Hoopla is what we have here. Haven't used it for music yet though. Speaking of legit services, Google and Amazon have free music if you know where to look. Primarily underground/indie though.
Actually spotify (and other services) let you store music offline so you don't need unlimited data. You just have to check in periodically to establish that you still have an active subscription.
Yeah, but you have to pay for the subscription to have the offline stuff. I'd rather just own the music anyway. I find it just as fun building playlists on my iPod or making "mixed" CDs.
Not to even mention music acquired from friends that also own music. Or CD's borrowed and ripped from the library. Or using a legit service, like Freegal, that if supported by your local library allows you to download x amount of sings every week totally for free.
Which reminds, me I haven't downloaded my freebies this week.
Never heard of freegal. I'm going to check it out. Thanks for letting us know about this Peregrine.
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), nope I will always have a large collection always available at no monthly cost.
