Share this postPandora Plus | WeTransfer | Spotify Gets Political with New Seriesplatformstream.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherPandora Plus | WeTransfer | Spotify Gets Political with New SeriesPlatform & StreamSep 15, 2016Share this postPandora Plus | WeTransfer | Spotify Gets Political with New Seriesplatformstream.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareDo downloads still play a role in the music industry? Dutch file-sharing startup WeTransfer says yes, and it has the executive board and artist partnerships to prove it.The CD killed home taping. Did you really want to spend all that time making an inferior copy when the original sounded so much better? Of course not. Never mind that CDs were vastly overpriced, didn’t compensate creators for said increase and singles were cut from the catalog, forcing you to buy a whole album…Music retail is broken. It’s 2016 and consumers have migrated from the high street to the mobile phone, and despite all of our technological advances we have now managed to create a retail experience for music fans that is considerably worse than it was 30 years ago.Spotify continues to roll out original content, this time looking to help get out the vote.Two major record labels are rolling out a low-priced music streaming service in the United Kingdom, a rare foray by record companies directly into the field and another sign the industry is finally moving toward more flexible pricing.Online radio service Pandora Media Inc launched "Pandora Plus", its new subscription service, on Thursday as it looks to gain market share amid stiff competition from Apple Inc, Spotify and Amazon.com Inc.Digicel have unveiled the latest addition to their range of products with their music streaming and downloading app, d’Music, which contains a catalogue of over 20 million songs from international artists across all genres.Streaming services are making smartphone the go-to listening device.So far, downloads have been only slightly better than streaming services at providing the information that this music enthusiast craves.PreviousNext