Many of my friends are surprised that I purchase mp3s and store them in Google Drive instead of listening on Spotify or YouTube. Heck, I even wrote a player fo

Many of my friends are surprised that I purchase mp3s and store them in Google Drive instead of listening on Spotify or YouTube. Heck, I even wrote a player for this [1] The problem is that licensed media like this are always going to become inaccessible over decades. It happened with Apple[2] and Microsoft (PlaysForSure[3]) as well. 1 - https://musicsync.ashishb.net/ https://musicsync.ashishb.net/ 2 - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/you-dont-own-your-digital-movies/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/you-dont-own-your-di... 2 - https://www.cnet.com/culture/playsforsure-officially-dead/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/playsforsure-officially-dead/