Do you need to own your music?
Posted on 22. May, 2009 by Mike Georgeson in Enterprise, Tech news
Reading a very interesting article at BrandRepublic discussing the merits of spotify. Silly name but you’ll probably remember it, right? Spotify is a streaming music service that I use.
But it got me thinking – do I really want, or need, to own the music I listen to? Do I want to pay for having that track on my iPod etc. I’ve come the conclusion that I don’t.
Now, I know there’ll be lots of people thinking “Of course I need to download music, how else will I get it on my iPod, my mobile etc – how else can I listen to my favourite tracks on the way to work or down the gym?” Let me ask you a question – How many of those places do not have WiFi and / or mobile 3G coverage? Not many I’ll bet. So, why not stream your favourite tracks to your MP3 player without having to download them?
We live in a constantly connected world so why not just listen to the music you like without purchasing and downloading each track.
Spotify is a desktop app at the moment, and it’s free if you don’t mind the occassional short ad, but I’m guessing it won’t be long before they get a mobile version and I for one will welcome it. And of course there are other streaming services like Last.fm so maybe now we should ditch the idea of paying for tracks and just stream them.
