"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by thirdsun on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:34AM (#37913972)

Prepare for your music to disappear at any point. Licensing deals end and albums you love are suddenly removed from platforms. I understand that's an acceptable trade off for a casual listener. I actually use Spotify for previewing albums and consider it great value.

However any music I care about I buy as I plan to own my library for decades to come.

Plus, you're missing out on a lot of great music that never has been available on streaming platforms.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by jemmyw on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:27AM (#37926843)

> Prepare for your music to disappear at any point.

So far it's only happened because the musician himself pulled the music, and I wasn't really enthused after that to try and find it again. As the gp said, there's so much music now... I might be missing out on some music but if I've already got too much to ever listen to then why does that matter? In fact, having to make the choice to purchase is necessarily going to limit the amount available and my willingness to take a chance on it.

Streaming has opened up so much for me that I would never have found browsing music shops. Of course if Spotify disappeared then I'd have to find another service or buy the music then. A problem for it's time.

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