It didn’t buy the format and then cancelled it, it did it purely by providing a more convenient way of listening to music than downloading mp3s, so yes, it’s a win
I personally think mp3’s are more convinient. I don’t have to use multiple subscriptions to access to platforms exclusivities , i don’t need to worry about songs becoming unavailable. I have a big playlist on spotify with a lot of grayed out songs. Also, local music players are a lot better than any streaming service player.
Yeah, people often forget about the gray ones, even on yt music my music playlist that works fine on the video app, has some songs greyed out when I tried to listen to it inside yt music.
Win for Spotify? Well, of course. But I feel like the comment you were replying to was talking about a win for the consumer, which it’s definitely not. I will always prefer paying once versus a subscription service, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that regard.
(I apologize if it sounds like I’m attacking you, that is not my intent!)
Im not sure this was a win
It didn’t buy the format and then cancelled it, it did it purely by providing a more convenient way of listening to music than downloading mp3s, so yes, it’s a win
I personally think mp3’s are more convinient. I don’t have to use multiple subscriptions to access to platforms exclusivities , i don’t need to worry about songs becoming unavailable. I have a big playlist on spotify with a lot of grayed out songs. Also, local music players are a lot better than any streaming service player.
Yeah, people often forget about the gray ones, even on yt music my music playlist that works fine on the video app, has some songs greyed out when I tried to listen to it inside yt music.
Win for Spotify? Well, of course. But I feel like the comment you were replying to was talking about a win for the consumer, which it’s definitely not. I will always prefer paying once versus a subscription service, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that regard.
(I apologize if it sounds like I’m attacking you, that is not my intent!)
Also it hasn’t, because having your actual collection on a streaming service is leagues less convenient than a bunch of mp3s on a hard drive.