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Originally Posted by Harmon
All 4 of them independently have clued me in to Spotify. All 4 of them have subscriptions. They tell me that this is legalized Napster.
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Apologies, but this always makes me sigh. Napster has been
operating legally since 2003, with the same paid subscription service that now supports Spotify and with a bigger catalogue.
They tried the ad-supported free music concept a couple of years before Spotify launched and
like Spotify found that it wasn't sustainable.
I've used their paid service for 6 years now, and it's excellent, both to the desktop and via the Android and iPhone apps (though a black mark is the lower bit rate on the apps).
Yet Spotify has the mindshare.
Here comes the sigh.
<sigh>
Graham