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Originally Posted by Phogg
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.
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That's why I have shazam on my phone, if I hear a song I like, I can find out what it is and buy it. I've bought several songs that way. I would be pretty surprised if the Apple streaming service doesn't have a Buy me button linked to the iTunes store. We will see if it does on Tuesday.