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by thejosh 4917 days ago
This is why I'm a huge fan of Spotify. I'm not going to buy music (in either CD/MP3 format) so I'm happy enough to pay the small fee to have access to a huge music library across all devices.

They also have a Linux client that works perfectly for me which is also a huge bonus.
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gioele 4917 days ago
> I'm happy enough to pay the small fee to have access to a huge music library across all devices.

As long as it lasts.

I want my music collection to be accessible also when Spotify will go out of business, sued into oblivion or acquired and shut down.

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cageface 4917 days ago
Doesn't have to be one or the other. Pay Spotify $10/month to discover new music and then go buy lossless copies of the albums you really care about. Most records I could live without but those few special ones I have backed up in S3 in FLAC.
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aes256 4917 days ago
Notwithstanding something exceptionally rare, why the need to back up FLACs on S3?

I back up my music collection locally, and I have double-redundancy of sorts (it's backed up to a RAID 5 array on a file server, so in theory it could withstand the failure of the original drive and one of the back up drives), but if worst comes to worst I could just acquire everything again.

With a couple of exceptions they're just lossless copies of widely available music recordings...

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justincormack 4917 days ago
Are you suggesting backing them up on pirate music sites?
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aes256 4917 days ago
Not advocating copyright infringement, nor was I suggesting that in particular.

That would be a viable back up strategy, though. Have a rare copy of a recording? Make it widely available, then if your copy is destroyed, the odds of you being able to acquire an identical copy again are much improved.

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UnoriginalGuy 4917 days ago
Why would they be sued? Last I heard Spotify was very much running a legal business.
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Ygg2 4917 days ago
Just because they are running a legal business now, doesn't mean they will run a legal business in future. Either they can change, or more likely laws will change, rendering them a vulnerable target for suing.

Plus, I'm sure they are breaking some ridiculous patent somewhere anyway.

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grogs 4917 days ago
It was only announced this month that spotify would add Metallica's back catalogue. They hardly have a complete library of music.
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lleims 4917 days ago
They have a complete enough library for 90% of the Internet population.
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demallien 4917 days ago
Does Spotify have access to "entire album only" tracks?
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