@nostupidquestions When purchasing Music (£0.99 each) how many plays would you say made the purchase ‘worth it’?

You actually buy music? Lol 🏴‍☠️

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I purchase music to get the highest quality possible, pay towards the artists I enjoy listening to & so I don’t pay for streaming services such as Spotify as they are bad models especially when I don’t want to listen to music one month.

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I use modded Spotify to get all the premium features free and can just download flacs directly from it

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You don’t “buy” music. You buy a license to listen to that music for as long as the license issuer still owns that particular song.

So never. Pirating music is the only path to ownership.

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Some services do still offer DRM free music file downloads. So you can still buy music

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Homie is literally talking about buying from Apple music. Take your high horse and blow it

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Op is talking about How licensing works. Not apple.

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no

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iTunes is one of those services that offer DRM free music.

Usage rights for iTunes Store purchases All songs offered by the iTunes Store come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection.

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I’m definitely not an apple fanboy (I’m an android user) but Apple switched to DRM free a while ago.

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You don’t “buy” music. You buy a license to listen to that music for as long as the license issuer still owns that particular song.

Unless dealing with the artist or studio directly the license issuer also won’t “own” the song but rather have a license to sell and distribute the title.

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The question isn’t how many play, but how many song does your plbylist have.

If you pay Spotify/deezer 9.99 a month this is phe price of 10 song a month. After 5 years it’s a 600 songs play list.

If your plbylist aren’t that big, it’s a loss, if your playlists are bigger, it’s a win

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Some months I listen to no music at all, as other months it’s not normally more than a few songs I listen to on repeat, obviously my playlists grow but not at 10 songs a month all year around. Also music streaming services are more closer to 14.99 in my country than 9.99

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Why not listen first and then decide if it’s worth buying? Go listen to the songs for free on YouTube or other means. Then if you like it, buy it for any price you feel is fair. I do most of my music shopping on Bandcamp, you can listen to the songs there before buying. For older albums it isn’t uncommon the artists let you name your own price.

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$10/hour entertainment budget

So… worst case you spend $87,600 per year? (assuming you want to be entertained during sleep as well…)

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Haha I wish I could manage 365 days of leisure time.

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That means the answer to the question would be 2? After two plays you have about 6 minutes of entertainment which are worth $1.

Btw I do the same entertainment budget calculations (as well as “what is my free time worth”)

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So long as you enjoyed all 6 minutes. A full album might offer more long term value.

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