On another note, I can’t believe folk are paying for individual downloads. Just use Spotify, £5-10 a month instead. The only thing it’s not good for are dj mixes, but I just use Mixcloud or Soundcloud for those anyway. I can only see Spotify being a problem if you’re wanting the tracks on CD, there are ways around that though.
But you never actually own the music you’re paying for, are you? Plus you have to know what to look for. Coupled with the simple fact that Spotify is only of any use at all at home; anywhere else and it’s totally useless. Streaming music on a mobile device is pointless, unless you’re one of the fortunate metropolitan types with access to a) a high-speed digital network that allows b) unlimited data, or c) you have loads of free wifi hotspots.
For the rest of us, those simply don’t exist. I can’t even stream BBC 6Music properly, and that’s on the best local network, which gives 1Gb/month. 3 has unlimited, but its coverage is crap.
I can Shazam loads of new stuff from 6Music without having to search for it, then download it at my leisure, and it’s mine, on my phone and on my computer.
And should you holiday, like I have the last few years, in a place with zero network coverage, and zero wifi access, your Spotify access is screwed. Whereas I’ve got 160Gb of music on my iPod.
