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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by lambda_lover on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:03PM (#16747993)
I don't understand the appeal of this model. Do you really want to have to subscribe to 5 different streaming music services, one per label, just to listen to all your favorite artists?
Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by ghaff on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:31PM (#16749501)
I'm admittedly not a particularly big music person but I'd have trouble seeing subscribing to multiple music streaming services unless one of them was for some obscure sub-genre I was really into. A lot of music seems to be ambient. If there's some artist I really need, I'll but a CD now and then.

Mind you, I don't like video being fragmented but that's a more deliberate choice a lot of the time for me. I'll subscribe to a few places based on available and original content--somewhat grudgingly to be sure--but I accept those are my options.