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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Certainly they do now with Apple. But Apple went to a lot of trouble lining up the various labels (including indies) so they would have most of the music that people might want to listen to. We should see over the next couple of months how successful Apple is in that regard.
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by balance information delivery with music delivery though.
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Were it my music, I would want to limit the amount of times within a short period my songs could be replayed.
Someone who wants to listen to it that much is a prime candidate to be persuaded to purchase it (even if it's a thirty cent or buck and a quarter song) and I want to limit replay for free within a short period. However, I also want to make sure that every single time it is played cold the listener has every opportunity to learn which song it was. They can't buy it if they don't know what it was and who I am.
So, (if it's me) I want a streaming service to automatically produce a time indexed copy of the playlist a streaming client listened to and archive those lists for a modest period in a way that is easily accessed by the listener.
That way if they later remember that they heard some cool song when they were at the gym on Tuesday they can look up what it was.
These are computer generated services. The information is there of necessity.
It is marketing incompetence not to use it properly.
I would never consider a service not doing this as an asset to marketing my material.