{"id":135722,"date":"2017-12-21T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135722"},"modified":"2017-12-21T23:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T06:43:32","slug":"world-shifts-streaming-licensed-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/21\/world-shifts-streaming-licensed-material.html","title":{"rendered":"As the world shifts to streaming “licensed” material"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, you bought records. The tapes (of various sorts). Then CDs.<\/p>\n

You bought the music and, beyond certain laws against using it for a public performance, it was yours: tangible, possessable, loanable.<\/p>\n

(Of course, if you lost the CD, or the LP got a bad scratch on it, you were SOL. So there was that down side.)<\/p>\n

The rise of online music services created — for a time — a hybrid model. You could buy stuff, but that stuff could be kept online. No need to download it. Heck, if you already had music files, you could upload them to those services.<\/p>\n

Gradually, those services started pushing streaming content — you don’t “own” the music, you pay for a period of access to a library of music. Once you stop paying, you can’t listen.<\/p>\n

There was still a hybrid model, though — the streaming services (we’ll tag the main ones as iTunes, Google Music, and Amazon music) let you upload the MP3 files you owned, and you could listen to them (or the matched tracks from the streaming service), and you could (for a monthly fee) access the streaming service as well.<\/p>\n

Now that model is beginning to fade, as Amazon announces that it will stop letting you upload music to its Amazon Music servers; you’ll still have access (when that goes into effect) to music you bought at<\/i> Amazon, or, of course, to the Amazon streaming service.<\/p>\n

It is probably incredibly Luddite to me that I still prefer knowing that I have my own, personal copy of my music files, not contingent on Amazon (or whomever) staying in business, or not changing the terms of the streaming agreement. But by a wild coincidence I was looking today at options for music access on family mobile phones (given our own internal, weird music setup of physical files, iPods, etc.), and had decided to go with Google vs Amazon as the streaming \/ connecting \/ music site of choice.<\/p>\n

If I had any doubts about it, Amazon just settled them.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>
\nAmazon Music removes ability to upload MP3s, will shutter storage service<\/a><\/span>
\nTake some time to re-download all those tracks you previously uploaded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, you bought records. The tapes (of various sorts). Then CDs. You bought the music and, beyond certain laws against using it for a public performance, it was yours: tangible, possessable, loanable. (Of course, if you lost the CD, or the LP got a bad scratch on it, you were SOL. 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