This already happens today with video content exclusive to Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. This hasn’t affected me personally yet as only mainstream music sees this kind of deal-making and eventually everything does come on all major platforms, but I fear that it’s only a matter of time before streaming services also become record labels and start signing artists up and restrict them to only their platform. The other thing that bothers me about streaming services is artists being available exclusively on one platform. There’d be nothing more sinister than for it to disappear from your library without a trace. Both Apple Music and Spotify at least still show the song in your playlist. You wake up one morning with a tune stuck in your head only to find the song is no longer playable. My personal equivalent in the streaming world is songs disappearing because the licensing deal with the record label expired in your country. 2īack in the day when cassettes were the dominant format, my biggest anxiety was discovering that the quality of sound has deteriorated due to the tape wearing down. I still prefer Spotify, especially on macOS 1 but in the end a streaming service is only as good as the size of its catalog and Spotify has been falling behind - especially when it comes to music from India. In October this year, I switched to Apple Music. Just like in 2017, I heard music exclusively over streaming. Fortunately there has been no dearth of good music and this year’s selection, like the years before, spans multiple genres and languages. When I shared a list of my favourite songs from 2016, I wasn’t sure if it was going to be a one-off exercise or if I’d be able to repeat it every year.
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