An Ugly Divorce

Spotify is easily the biggest step in digital media provision and in combating music piracy since Apple’s iTunes. For the purpose of our web feature, Spotify offers the most comparable and pervasive model of media streaming to Netflix (and screen-based streaming alternatives) available in Australia. So comprehensive is Spotify’s service that after signing up to its premium service last week (although I had attempted unsuccessfully to sever the white umbilical chord myriads of times previously), I was finally ready to divorce my beloved Ipod and its collection of music (compiled over painstaking over almost a decade) from my hip and relegate it to stay at home duties. 

It was something that I honestly thought would never happen. I was never (and seemingly never going to be) an iPhone convert due to the fact that its minimal storage space never allowed for a music library comprehensive enough to quench my audiophilia.

 Then Spotify came along. Offline playlists created freely from a library of millions of songs from an amount per month that I would usually spend on a single CD. Where’s the catch?.... unlike iTunes’ DRM-infected mp3s, there is none.  

Naturally, this led me to begin to eye-off my DVD collection with a large amount of portentous lament. It saddened me that the mosaic rectangular plastic adorning my shelf would of little more use than a giant dust gatherer (My newest laptop does not have a CD drive!). 

After some time elapsed and I wiped away my figurative tears, I had prepared myself. As we come nearer and nearer to the online streaming reality of Netflix and other associated foes of the hard-copy disk and broadcast networks, I have pre-acknowledged that, like my music collection, my assiduously compiled decade-old DVD collection had a terminal prognosis.