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Both Spotify[1] and Apple Music[2] offer offline downloads to premium users.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/the_basics/list...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204839



Which you cannot move to another device and need their broken media player to play. Thanks but no thanks.

Have a real DRM-free shop instead please. Without idiotic user unfriendly lawyer requiring license to use.


Customers have pretty overwhelmingly decided they don't want that, as a whole.


Did they? Or did they just bend down to what's out there?


spotify also opens up the API for third party media players if you have a premium account


As does Google Play Music [1]. Amazon Music Unlimited does as well, but only allows to supported devices [2].

[1] https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1250232?hl...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...




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