Kids want to own music

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Post by inovica » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 7:08 PM UTC

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by inovica » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 7:49 PM UTC

Frankly I'm not sure it's just the 'kids'. I'm 39 and whilst I like the Spotify service, I also like the knowledge that I've got my own music stored. I'd hate to think I'd built up a series of playlists with an online service only for them to disappear overnight for a variety of reasons

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by jacquesm » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 8:13 PM UTC

inovica wrote: post #2

Frankly I'm not sure it's just the 'kids'. I'm 39 and whilst I like the Spotify service, I also like the knowledge that I've got my own music stored. I'd hate to think I'd built up a series of playlists with an online service only for them to disappear overnight for a variety of reasons

Why go online ? Just set up a media pc with a backup at a friends house in the neighbourhood (have them backup to each other). Cheap, reliable and no overnight disappearances.

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by Cecil » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 8:41 PM UTC

This link causes FF 3.5.2 to start allocating ram at the rate of 15MB/sec until it crashes. Anyone else?

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by nagoff » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 8:56 PM UTC

At my startup, psonar, we believe in mp3s vs streaming - particularly for the 'kids'. I sit in front of a computer all day so streaming is ok for me, but teenagers spend far more of their time listening to music away from a computer. ipods, phones etc play a bigger part for them than computers.

Its also not just economically that streaming falls down, technologically the battery life and network bandwidth isn't there either - and doesn't show a lot of signs of improving rapidly

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by Dilpil » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:02 PM UTC

Makes sense: people download far more music than they listen to.

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by inovica » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:10 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #3

inovica wrote: post #2

Frankly I'm not sure it's just the 'kids'. I'm 39 and whilst I like the Spotify service, I also like the knowledge that I've got my own music stored. I'd hate to think I'd built up a series of playlists with an online service only for them to disappear overnight for a variety of reasons

Why go online ? Just set up a media pc with a backup at a friends house in the neighbourhood (have them backup to each other). Cheap, reliable and no overnight disappearances.

I'm talking about the online service. If you rely on a service, and put time and energy into organizing what you like, then the fear is that at some point it might disappear. Possibly a little irrational, but thats why I like to 'own' and store myself

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by gorbachev » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:12 PM UTC

These kids actually think they own the mp3s they download?

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by gorbachev » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:12 PM UTC

Cecil wrote: post #4

This link causes FF 3.5.2 to start allocating ram at the rate of 15MB/sec until it crashes. Anyone else?

Yep. FF 3.0.12.

Re: Kids want to own music

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Post by jpwagner » Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 9:24 PM UTC

This article isn't about owning music at all!!

In my mind the issue is: do people want to own music or do they want to pay for a subscription--these are not one in the same.

The point by the way is valid. People get value out of listening to all-you-can-eat music, so they would pay. The tricky bit is making the transaction simple and automatic.