It was with great interest I read an article today talking about how Apple, Google and Amazon are jockeying for position in the online music streaming industry.
Listening to music has always been my thing and what I'm reading has made me reevaluate how I listen to my music.
In the past, I've been pretty much a collector of music and I *gasp* actually pay for it. I do get teased often as I don't believe in getting ripped off music (insert props to my nephew here - you know who and you know why). I believe that the artists need to compensated in order to keep the innovation in music going, but I digress.
The thing is that I've always liked the fact that I have a very diverse choice in music and the genres and artists that I listen too change depend on the stages in my life or my mood of the day.
This is where I think the streaming music business model makes a lot of sense of me personally. This will open up the floodgates to trying all kinds of new music and artists.
The only big problem that I can see (and I hate to harp on this) but this will only work on my devices where I actually have an Internet connection. I suppose in that case, I'd still have my library of music stored on portable device to listen to.
It also seems to me that in terms of music providers, there seems to be a large amount of brand loyalty and this probably explains why the big players are trying to get people on-board with their music streaming service.
This is definitely worthy of future investigation!
In the past, I've been pretty much a collector of music and I *gasp* actually pay for it. I do get teased often as I don't believe in getting ripped off music (insert props to my nephew here - you know who and you know why). I believe that the artists need to compensated in order to keep the innovation in music going, but I digress.
The thing is that I've always liked the fact that I have a very diverse choice in music and the genres and artists that I listen too change depend on the stages in my life or my mood of the day.
This is where I think the streaming music business model makes a lot of sense of me personally. This will open up the floodgates to trying all kinds of new music and artists.
The only big problem that I can see (and I hate to harp on this) but this will only work on my devices where I actually have an Internet connection. I suppose in that case, I'd still have my library of music stored on portable device to listen to.
It also seems to me that in terms of music providers, there seems to be a large amount of brand loyalty and this probably explains why the big players are trying to get people on-board with their music streaming service.
This is definitely worthy of future investigation!
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