Anecdatum: I was a big music buyer because iTunes made it quite easy.
I like to “own” my music, so it was appealing- DRM free, album art and metadata formatted correctly.
But then they nerfed the ever loving shit out of the music app on my phone and force fed me Apple Music. Since I ideologically disagree with that model I went back to the old ways of CDs and luckily I have Plex which handles my music on my phone now.
It’s not as nice as before but it’s better than being forced into a subscription.
I like to “own” my music, so it was appealing- DRM free, album art and metadata formatted correctly.
But then they nerfed the ever loving shit out of the music app on my phone and force fed me Apple Music. Since I ideologically disagree with that model I went back to the old ways of CDs and luckily I have Plex which handles my music on my phone now.
It’s not as nice as before but it’s better than being forced into a subscription.