I first started building my online music (legally owned) library almost 20 years ago with Yahoo Music.
Yahoo subsequently sold the music streaming service and it was rebranded as Rhapsody.
That company was then sold to another owner, who apparently held the copyright to the Napster name and logo, and Rhapsody was rebranded to Napster primarily for the name recognition despite it no longer being a pirate/file sharing site.
Napster is the T-Mobile of digital music compared to the AT&T/Verizon equivalents of Apple Music and Spotify, but I have a library of over 1,000 songs that I don’t want to lose or recreate on another service so I hope these new owners don’t end up discontinuing that element of the business.
I only do Sirius big band music. And then only when I’m in the car, so not very often. But I do like the 40s music era.
I still own many hundreds of audio CDs and I refuse to sell or discard them. While I got most of them from second hand music exchange stores back in the day (sorta like what Gamestop does now with used video games), I actually paid for them, and even though I ripped almost all of them and have digital copies, which I am legally allowed to listen to on multiple devices, I do not trust devices to allow me to play the music that I technically have the rights too. So for that reason, I have to keep the physical disks. It’s really rather sad that they have that control.
I personally consider the legal concept of buying personal use licenses (rather than owning a physical or legal copy) complete and utter bull. These are the same kinds of people who would love to tell you that they own the rights to the atmosphere and you should be licensed to breathe it.
“Napster is the T-Mobile of digital music compared to the AT&T/Verizon equivalents of Apple Music and Spotify, “
Nasser died. Your slight of T-Mobile is not warranted. Is some ways they dominate and are adding customers much faster than AT&T/Verizon combined.
They even provide, for the time, StarLink texting to AT&T/Verizon customers!
I listened to almost nothing but old stuff. I ported over my CD’s and tapes and vinyl to MP3’s decades ago, using mostly the iTunes app on Windows for the CD’s. A few of my favorite bands came out of retirement and I’ve bought their new stuff on iTunes. Thus, I listen to everything on my iPhone be it in the car or at home and don’t pay a monthly fee for the privilege of listening to it, nor do I have ads.
I have a music library of over 6,000 songs.