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YouTube to Launch New Music Subscription Service in March (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube plans to introduce a paid music service in March, according to people familiar with the matter, a third attempt by parent company Alphabet Inc. to catch up with rivals Spotify and Apple. The new service could help appease record-industry executives who have pushed for more revenue from YouTube. Warner Music Group, one of the world's three major record labels, has already signed on, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private talks. YouTube is also in talks with the two others, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, and Merlin, a consortium of independent labels, the people said.
Why the fuck would I lock myself into an computing eco-system that keeps forces me to buy over priced crappy hardware and over prices services that I will never want to use to begin with? So towards that, yeah. I don't know exactly what Apple music has it it's catalog and I never will. Because Apple as a company can get fucked and die in a fire.
But beyond that I fucking hated Spotify for the same reason I hate Apple in general. A closed Ecosystem that required me to use an app to listen to music. And I'm not going to use that. Full fucking stop. The artist that I listen to are found from better services like Band Camp, where I don't have to go through some POS third party corporation to access my music constantly through my devices. There's also the issue where that I don't use my own phone like a fucking toy, so I don't waste my battery life on entertainment. So my Phone never gets used for streaming.