{"id":3077,"date":"2015-06-07T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2015-06-07T07:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T12:26:52","slug":"music-streaming-spotify-has-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/06\/07\/music-streaming-spotify-has-won","title":{"rendered":"Music streaming – Spotify has won?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems clear that Spotify won<\/a> the music streaming battle:<\/p>\n

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Spotify accounts for 86% of the on-demand music-streaming market in the U.S., according to data shared with music publishers. Its share of the international market is believed to be similar.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m an ardent Rdio user. However, they\u2019ve lost songs<\/a> that I want to listen to (in my playlists). And I just noticed that they\u2019ve also killed<\/a> Amazon Payments as a method of payment. They\u2019re taking much less than 14% of the market, and were costing me USD$9.99\/month.<\/p>\n

It looks like I\u2019m moving to Spotify. But I\u2019ll hang in there to see what Apple launches in the meantime (you see, sometimes I might want to listen to some<\/a> Taylor Swift). My major beef is with playlists \u2013 I\u2019ve invested time in curating that experience, and I need to find an easy way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems clear that Spotify won the music streaming battle: Spotify accounts for 86% of the on-demand music-streaming market in the U.S., according to data shared with music publishers. Its share of the international market is believed to be similar. I\u2019m an ardent Rdio user. However, they\u2019ve lost songs that I want to listen to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1503],"tags":[293,1708,1277,703],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-music","tag-rdio","tag-spotify","tag-streaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-ND","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}