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People complaining about losing connections while streaming offline. People complaining about perpetual subscriptions. You know what doesn't have that problem? Owning your music.

When the music is owned by you and on your device then you can play it anywhere, anytime, regardless of network connection and you don't have to keep paying for it in order to continue listening to it.

Owning also allows you to slow down your intake of new music - which is actually a good thing. It takes a while to really get into an album and savor all the details and really get to know the album. And you get to keep that album forever at no additional cost!

That's my $0.02 anyway.

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> Owning also allows you to slow down your intake of new music - which is actually a good thing. It takes a while to really get into an album and savor all the details and really get to know the album. And you get to keep that album forever at no additional cost!

This makes absolutely no sense to my music listening habits, for example.

It's a nice take, for your personal experience with music. On the other side: I listen to a lot of recommendations from friends, I listen to discover a lot of new music that I can then buy to use for DJing. I like to listen music to discover new genres, new fusions of genres and to find new artists I might enjoy.

I won't ever buy an album from each one of those artists, it's not financially possible.

Not sure why listening to a very broad spectrum of music is such a bad thing in your view. Good albums will be digested as albums, some other music can just be appreciated as single pieces, no need to keep listening to whole albums that aren't really that good.

Since the advent of Spotify and other streaming services, I listen to a much greater variety of music. And it's music that I never would have heard if had to pay per song or album.

Rock on! We started Music Of A People -https://musicofapeople.com.

Anyone can clone it and put there own songs on there and host their own online music player with deep links and playlist functionality et cetera.

We're going to build software for musicians/managers/agents/labels who believe in public domain music.

DRM music sucks. It's strictly inferior, end of story. Listening to the same digital bits over and over again isn't the essence of music anyway. Music is best experienced live. True musicians get this, and we think we start flocking to the new model: make digital files all public domain then monetize via concerts, vinyl records, merch and other physical things.

Do you hear the people sing?

Genuinely hate going to concerts would rather listen to my "digital bits" over and over again. I guess I don't get the "essence of music"

I mean I listen to digital music all the time (right now included). There's a time in a place for the "essence" :)

I've discovered so many genres I didn't even know existed thanks to Spotify.

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