I hope this happens more and more as artists realize how they're getting screwed by streaming and pull their stuff.
Qobuz dropping rights to my favorites. A pox on their house.
So, I favorite something on Qobuz, come back a few months later and SHAZAM, it's gone. "The rights holders have not made this content available to listen." This seems to be a growing problem for me and I doubt I';m the only one. WTF?? To add insult to injury, I take a look at Amazon (to which I do not subscribe) and there it is.
Qobuz is the only paid service I use. Tidal has too much overlap to be worth it and I find MQA dubious anyway. Amazon's march towards world domination is troubling and I just plain don't like Apple stuff. But my partner uses AppleMusic (I think) and reports similar annoyances.
This leaves me both perplexed and annoyed. I've been slowly culling my CD's, LP's and server library with the assumption that streaming service libraries would grow, not shrink. It's also in keeping with my wish to release my attachments to mere things. I'm coming to feel that this may be a grave error - in the realm of music what we don't physically possess, be it CD, an LP, BR disk or a data file, we never really possessed at all. I'm not content to live off memories of how much I once enjoyed hearing something. I might want to hear it again! So, as far as web/streaming content goes I'm moving back to downloading stuff so it can't be arbitrarily taken away from me.
Anybody else mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore? Bah, humbug! And Happy New Year
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@mspot +2
Before I started streaming I had read many articles cautioning that the problem of deletions could be significant. I also use streaming primarily to explore new releases that I previously would have purchased and played perhaps twice. I burn my CDs to a NAS but am only discarding the ones that I truly don’t rate very highly. I also have swung from being an Apple Fan to disliking the company that they have become. However I dropped Qobuz for Apple Music because my wife really wanted it and it was silly to have both. Apple has a much more extensive catalog and doesn’t seem as deletion prone as Qobuz. And the SQ is pretty good |
Thanks for unformatting the original post. Anyway, I'm all for artists not getting screwed. I'd pay more for service that seemed more sustainable. I'd also pay more for a service that devised a means for being more stable. But what will change immediately is my strategy of minimizing physical media. I had hoped that high rez streaming would make that possible, but that just isn't the case. Along the same lines I guess I'll get busy ripping CDs before they disintegrate. I've noticed that it's already started. |
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