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Your guide to a new Music Streaming service (Reworked) (lemmy.world)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Same with Apple Music.

Edit: this is slightly misleading. When I used "Apple Music" in this sense, it included the "iTunes Store", which most people do not realize is a separate store where you can buy individual songs or albums. Both Apple Music and iTunes Store purchases show up in the same iTunes library.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah until they remove the albums and you don't keep them anymore afaik

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You are complaining about something that is not specific to Apple Music. It can happen, and it sucks, but Apple is no different from any other online music purchasing store in this regard.

    iTunes Store purchases are free from DRM and can be backed up just like any other libre digital purchases.

    All songs offered by the iTunes Store come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. These DRM-free songs, called iTunes Plus, have no usage restrictions and feature high-quality, 256 kbps AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encoding.

    https://support.apple.com/guide/music/intro-to-the-itunes-store-mus3e2346c2/mac

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I dunno about the other two, but you absolutely own the music you download from bandcamp. Trying to gaslight everyone into believing that apple music isn't shit is naïve at best, complicit at worst.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Bought music from iTunes (not Apple Music, the streaming service!) is DRM-free just as Bandcamp, and I’ve lost music from my Bandcamp profile as well because the artist deleted their account (which I luckily downloaded most of beforehand).

    The effectively only difference is Bandcamp offers lossless downloads.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This can happen to any store unfortunately. If a publisher withdraws, you'd no longer be able to download it. Qobuz has this too. Some publishers are quite scummy with this and upload a slightly different version, which no longer qualifies as the album you've purchased. You need to download it asap after buying.

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