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Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by squarefoot on Saturday May 25, 2024 @01:00AM (#40472769)
> I'm still paranoid that Spotify will disappear one day and I'm afraid to lose my older music collection.

Services eventually disappear. Not many people recall about Vitaminic, a gem of the early 2K that along MySpace gave countless unknown artists and bands the opportunity to put their music online, then one day poof! and it was gone with all its content. I had saved a few quite interesting tracks on my hard drive and attempted to search for the artists in the hope they moved elsewhere, but no way: they were gone forever. So, screw online services: I'm not going to waste any energy in something whose kill switch is in someone else's hand.

Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor by thaumasiotes on Saturday May 25, 2024 @04:31AM (#40473565)
If the artists didn't own their own copyrights, there's a good chance that their stuff is available somewhere else by now. There are many companies out there that do nothing but put your music onto spotify and youtube for exposure; anything owned by a label is probably there.