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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by unethical_ban on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:39PM (#16748351)
Pandora wasn't on demand until very recently. It was "station only".

Myspace def. was limited and didn't have full catalogs of all music in any scope approaching Spotify.

Youtube is video that has music, and can't be conveniently used on mobile or used for music discovery explicitly.

Soundcloud is actually the closest to what I meant, but it obviously isn't used for record-label music distribution en masse.

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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:44PM (#16748399)
> Youtube is video that has music,

True.

> and can't be conveniently used on mobile

I disagree, but that's highly subjective.

> or used for music discovery explicitly.

It can be, but the YT Music app only was launched in 2015.

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