Streaming spells the end of the ‘ownership’ era of music, but are we ready to let go?

My first experience with music streaming led me to accidentally and irreversibly delete my digital library. A search of internet forums returned plenty of results from people in a similar position, and I could relate to the note of hysteria in their posts. “I deleted my entire Apple Music Library by accident and I need an adult to tell me everything will be okay and that I can get it all back,” read the subject line of one. “All my Spotify playlists are gone!! and there is no mail in my email and ur solutions don’t work,” lamented another. Since then I’ve been operating in the musical wilderness, unable to trust streaming services and unhappy with my unrecognisable iTunes library, which I managed to partially resurrect from a backup hard drive stored at my parents’ house a year after the calamitous event. After consulting widely I have realised I’m caught in the shift from a music model based on “ownership” to one based on “access”. And I’m not the only one. Apple’s announcement late last year of the end of iTunes as we have known it is a symbolic bookend to the “ownership” era. While streaming services are now the… Read full this story

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