You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back

Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by ghaff on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:43PM (#33134324)

Spotify didn't do anything special. Most of the (mainstream) subscription music streaming services have similar content. I assume it's mostly a function of the fact that music royalties were quite centralized so that once streaming became viable it was a pretty natural shift given that pay per play was already well entrenched with radio etc.

Video was much more fragmented and a lot of older content licensing never envisioned non-broadcast availability at all.

(The numbers also probably don't work. I'm guessing a hypothetical all-you-can-eat subscription would be in the hundreds of dollars a month.

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Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by dehrmann on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:53PM (#33134414)

> Spotify didn't do anything special.

They were the ~first.

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Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by ghaff on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:57PM (#33134446)

Pandora was a fair bit older but not quite the same thing. Rhapsody was older as well.

ADDED: The basic point is that there was a pretty natural path from radio to personalized radio streaming to streaming that brought a modified version of the same royalty system along with it.

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Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by dehrmann on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:11PM (#33135062)

> not quite the same thing

Not being able to pick specific songs is a huge difference.

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Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by ghaff on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:24PM (#33135198)

Rhapsody let you pick specific albums. And, honestly, I mostly use streaming to play curated playlists these days.

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