Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart
by jjav on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:53AM
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> A decade ago I moved off the good iTunes and foolishly lost my complete library of metadata of songs, so I want to avoid that again.
Relying on anything that is closed source, or worse, an online service, brings with it the eventual inevitability of losing everything. No product or company lasts forever.
For things that are ephemeral in interest (e.g. movies you only care to watch once), that's fine.
For things that you really like and want to have a strong guarantee you can enjoy them later, the only solution is open formats and have the data in your control.
For all the music (and a few handful movies) that I want to be able to enjoy forever, I keep them locally in a redundant backed up ZFS server. No corporate change of heart can ever take those away from me.
Relying on anything that is closed source, or worse, an online service, brings with it the eventual inevitability of losing everything. No product or company lasts forever.
For things that are ephemeral in interest (e.g. movies you only care to watch once), that's fine.
For things that you really like and want to have a strong guarantee you can enjoy them later, the only solution is open formats and have the data in your control.
For all the music (and a few handful movies) that I want to be able to enjoy forever, I keep them locally in a redundant backed up ZFS server. No corporate change of heart can ever take those away from me.