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    Do you have ownership of what you download with Spotify?

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    • Spotify is just streaming.monospaced
    • You cannot download albums for offline listening?Ben99
    • yeah, but you don't actually have the files... so technically you aren't really downloading them? Apple Music also has offline listening. same crapmonospaced
    • but you really download the tracks with AppleMusic. You have the files on your hard disk.Ben99
    • really? I thought you had to buy tracks through iTunes store to actually have the mp4 filesmonospaced
    • the files are *.m4p (not mp4) and are DRMed, as soon as you cancel your membership the file is asking for login info to listen to it.Ben99
    • But you really have the files locally on your hard drive.Ben99
    • I saw in Google some tools to remove the DRM on Spotify files, so i guess its the same thing for Spotify, you can download the tracks.Ben99
    • I guess legally you don't own them since you really only pay to stream. Hence the drm. Makes sense.monospaced
    • I've become less concerned with actually owning music files. It's just sound. As long as I can access the sound somehow, it's fine.iCanHazQBN
    • ... and doesn't take up storage on my HD. If I have a laptop with 250GB HD and 50GB is music, that's a big chunk of memory used up.iCanHazQBN
    • Streaming through Spotify still takes up HDD space - audio is cached as it plays and is reset after a time - they removed the option to limit the storage.face_melter
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