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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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