The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete

The conclusion that we will abandon Spotify for individual artist discords is nonsense. Clearly Spotify should be enabling all of the community building and merchandising that artists want to do because that would help their margins and moat. But regardless of whether they do or do not, the vast bulk of the demand side, the listeners, are going to want à la cart unrestricted music. It’s the same thing we want for video, we are just not given it. Perhaps they should balkanize into fifteen different streaming services each with its own catalog and exclusives but that way lies the return of piracy.

Would be great if a non-Amazon / non-Apple service popped up that allows for buying mp3; one that allowed for re-downloading, so kept your “library” safe but not hostage.

I was able to transition to bandcamp surprisingly easily minus one band I like.