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Loudr — Important Update For Artists: The Loudr Store Is...
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以下メール通達。 (2016.12.22)

Important Update for Customers: The Loudr Store Is Closing


Dear Customer,

We have some important information to share about the Loudr Store.

Loudr is transitioning its digital music distribution business to CD Baby as part of a shift toward products and services that benefit songwriters and improve music licensing. As part of this process, track preview streaming will be disabled on December 31, 2016, and the music purchase feature will be disabled on all Loudr-hosted album pages on January 31, 2017.

While you will no longer be able to purchase music in the Loudr Store, you will still be able to log into your Loudr account at http://loudr.fm before June 30, 2017 and download any content you purchased. We'll continue to support previously-purchased downloads as well as Loudr Store forwarding links until June 30, 2017.

It was not an easy decision for us to close this platform, but we do believe this will enable us to build new things that will benefit the community of songwriters and creators at large. We'd like to thank you for supporting Loudr's community of artists and making the Loudr Store more than just another a place to buy digital music.

Yours sincerely,

Team Loudr

なぜ今さらこんな前のメモ残すかというと、当時の曲のデジタルデータ購入を iTunes とか Amazon ならいざ知らず、気に入った曲を購入するとはいえ得体のしれないマイナー(?)国外サイトから購入しなければいけないという躊躇があったので。
結果なくなっちゃったんだけど、気づいてなければあとから後悔することになる。

Loudr: Big Data for Music Rights
https://loudr.fm/




bandcamp.com も当時は似たような印象受けてたんだけど、サイトの様子と曲製作者の利用状況見てる感じだと日本でもっと流行るかどうかは置いといて、うまく sporify とかとは違う路線でやってるし大丈夫そう。
私は bandcamp の視聴具合とかアーティストが小刻みに曲出してくれる環境が好きなので、デジタル購入で優先してます。
すでに100アルバム以上費やしてるので、デジタルデータに限ってはこういう不安要素怖い。

Twitter のログイン認証使ってたから削除も忘れずに。