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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by josteink on Friday May 17, 2019 @06:34AM (#19938159)
> The issue even with a DRM-free local iTunes library is: how are people going to keep that over 30 years?

The same place and way you keep all your other digitally purchased music. Just like the music I buy from bleep, Bandcamp or directly from artists.

What’s the problem here?

Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by shrimp_emoji on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:08PM (#19941512)
LOL. This. This discussion here is surreal to me.

Ways to enjoy music: stream it on Spotify or insert a CD. Pick one.

?????

I mean, DRMless, local media doesn't obviate streaming which has its own valuable niche, from discovery to the fact that my 200 GB music library cannot fit on my phone, but that library is on Dropbox.

In 30 years, the format might be unrecognizable, but... I don't get the problem either.

>But for a local iTunes library you need IT admin skills to manage it, to back it up, to transfer it from one machine to the next, perhaps to understand that you can access the music without iTunes, etc. The vast majority of the public don't know how to do that.

Oh, we're operating from an assumption of pre-Internet tech literacy. Then, yeah, I don't know. The computer-as-radio/physical-media dichotomy might be the way to go. Enjoy those CDs. uwu Put thing in thing and hear sound. Zug zug