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Killerhurtz  ·  3480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it

To be honest, we're running out of cheap, legal alternatives for music because the big musics (labels, Vevo, so on) want more money.

On the one hand, we got Youtube which got it's arms bound in a deal with Vevo, forcing it to shut down Streamus because they could find no way that would not ruin the app AND show Vevo-sponsored ads.

Then we got iTunes, Spotify, Pandora and other streaming services that are getting shit all over with legal stuff, forcing them to add measures to their software that slow down and change functionality for the worse because apparently we're not supposed to share anymore.

Then there's the paid streaming which can get expensive to some people.

And THEN there's the DRM-ladden stores that won't allow you to have songs (which are themselves equipped with DRM) from two accounts because that would encourage sharing, and who wants that.

And finally, there's the small independents store (like CD Baby) that give us what we want: high-quality music at the price of the artist, DRM-free. Except that, of course, none of the music a lot of people want (which are owned by big labels - because the big labels own, or at least aim to own, all the popular music ever since what, the '60s?), so we're stuck short.

And then the bigwigs wonder why people illegally download songs from torrents or other sources...