Tangential point: The song Terryfold has been removed from Spotify.
It's still available on Youtube if I want to listen to it, but the point is that it's not in the same place, if you're a Spotify user, as all the other music you listen to.
Yes, there's a whole thing with Justin Roiland that's controversial (putting it lightly, maybe he should be in jail, but that's not for me to decide), and that song has obvious elements that relate to the controversy, but, dammit, I like the song for the song.
The point this article is making, and the reason for the author's decision ten years ago, is still relevant and I can't ever see it being irrelevant.
Yeah, disappearing songs (or content in general) is the part that I HATE about streaming. I'm happy to pay for the service, but unhappy to have content yanked at any moment. Especially with songs I used to love, it's like having part of my identity erased against my will.
If anyone has any tips on how to "back up" a Spotify account (and systematically detect yanked content) I would love to hear them.
It's still available on Youtube if I want to listen to it, but the point is that it's not in the same place, if you're a Spotify user, as all the other music you listen to.
Yes, there's a whole thing with Justin Roiland that's controversial (putting it lightly, maybe he should be in jail, but that's not for me to decide), and that song has obvious elements that relate to the controversy, but, dammit, I like the song for the song.
The point this article is making, and the reason for the author's decision ten years ago, is still relevant and I can't ever see it being irrelevant.