ZombiePlatypus
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Yeah. Unless you own a physical copy or an MP3 file, you're at the mercy of the whim of all these streaming services. I'd rather not have a cloud-based collection that fluctuates unpredictably.
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Jay Z removes his albums from Apple Music and Spotify
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Yeah. Unless you own a physical copy or an MP3 file, you're at the mercy of the whim of all these streaming services. I'd rather not have a cloud-based collection that fluctuates unpredictably.
DOWN
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? That's weird. That's not generally the case. Usually if you have a file from iTunes or random download and have iCloud music library turned on, it will work fine streaming that file to all your devices
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smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Well that sucks.
Tidal is what's wrong with the streaming game these days. All these exclusive artists and albums and shit.
When you limit where you can put your music up, you're only costing yourself money. I mean, existing fans can't hear your music, new fans can't discover your music. If they do, they discover it's not where they listen to music and you likely don't gain a new fan.
When you limit where you can put your music up, you're only costing yourself money. I mean, existing fans can't hear your music, new fans can't discover your music. If they do, they discover it's not where they listen to music and you likely don't gain a new fan.
Spine_Ripper
Member
No Watch The Thrones pisses me off. Fuck you, Jay.
At least HAM is still on Spotify.
At least HAM is still on Spotify.
NOLA_Gaffer
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Can you still buy them in the iTunes Music Store?
If so, what's the problem here?
If so, what's the problem here?
IrishNinja
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Hov's been washed for a decade now, but saying he was never good to being with?
for real, straight garbage claims
yeah WTT was summer bangers, underrated album
If you're a big fan of an exclusive artist and streaming is the way you listen to music, yeah....I can see someone switching to Tidal.
But the thing is, most big fans have other ways of listening to their favorite artists music.....so yeah.
Hov's been washed for a decade now, but saying he was never good to being with?
This....Jay Z has a ridiculous amount of classic songs. These youngins don't know.
The way the movie/TV industry has treated Netflix, they need to learn this lesson as well.
When this runs out I'd sub to Google Play instead for YouTube Red which I value more than having access to Jay-Z.
Puck Beaverton
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Imagine buying music in the year 2017.
You should buy music for artist you really wish to support btw
SamuelSupreme
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PsychoSoldier
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It could have worked in a different era where musical tastes were more centralized around fewer artists.
But today there are niches and niches within niches so I can't see someone doing that, honestly. I mean, for a second I thought about signing up for Apple Music because it had a couple artists I couldn't get on Spotify but I just bought a couple of their albums instead.
I would say someone like Adele but I'm guessing a lot of the folks who listen to her are likely to buy her albums instead of stream.
Off-Kilter
Banned
Lmao at all the Jay shade ITT
How could this possibly be the case? I have plenty of music that isn't on Apple Music but I've uploaded it and can listen to it all fine.
The Strokes
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I came literally to post this exact same thing.
W-wait, does the collab record with Linkin Park count as a Jay-Z record?
LookAtMeGo
Member
No shit. I still listen to this daily when Im playing Rocket League on Spotify. God dammit
This is a pointless move. Anyone who is computer literate can literally find any Jay-Z album in 5 minutes and download it illegally if they wanted to. Apple Music and Spotify were merely a convenience.
People aren't going to run to Tidal for his music instead they will be pirating if the music it isn't readily available.
Also what is with the revisionist history where Jay-z is a scrub?
Reasonable doubt, Blueprint, Black album, Vol. 2, etc
Almost everything up to the Black album is fire with very few misses.
People aren't going to run to Tidal for his music instead they will be pirating if the music it isn't readily available.
Also what is with the revisionist history where Jay-z is a scrub?
Reasonable doubt, Blueprint, Black album, Vol. 2, etc
Almost everything up to the Black album is fire with very few misses.
FalsettoVibe
Member
Oh well.
Serious post?
NOLA_Gaffer
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Albums aren't particularly expensive. $10 or less for most major releases, even with physical CDs.
Maybe I'm old school, but songs I want to keep on a permanent basis are purchased on compact disc and ripped into iTunes.
PsychoSoldier
Banned
Or if they want to do it legally they can just buy the ultra-cheap CD's online and rip the CD.
Which he gets nothing from.
LookAtMeGo
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torre_avenue
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Bounceounce is gonna Takeover all of y'all when he/she reads this.
Came in here to post this. Glad to see it was already done.
Stop trying to make Tidal a thing, Jay-Z.
IrishNinja
Member
i don't think many have a choice when doing so, sadly
ah, that's cool to hear about spotify though
This. I listen to No Church in the Wild on a weekly basis.
Couldn't have left that one alone?
i tried to listen to watch the throne at the gym today and was very upset. i have it on an external hard drive somewhere and i can upload it to iTunes music library but fuck man this sucks
RoadHazard
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And that's why I could never completely rely on streaming services for my music needs. Suddenly some shit you enjoy is just gone. They're great for discovering new stuff and whatnot, but for the stuff I really love I'll keep buying CDs and ripping them. The combination of Play Music All Access and my own uploaded library is sweet as hell.
I don't really care since I have almost all of his albums in my library, but this is a garbage move. Stop trying to strong arm people with your (and others') art to use your platform that people don't want to use.
Making him look like the Metallica of the subscription age. Which sucks because I love older Jay and older Metallica.
Making him look like the Metallica of the subscription age. Which sucks because I love older Jay and older Metallica.
Wait, what?
That's bullshit.
So you can't even play your own copies of his albums even if you originally purchased them from a competing service like Amazon?
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