Comment by mtillman
2 days ago
Not sure about OP but I have all manner of blues and jazz recordings unavailable via streaming. There are also lots of obscure Japanese game and rock recordings that aren't in Apple or Spotify though to Spotify's credit, they have a lot of game content. Streaming is mostly in service of licenses and margins which as a shareholder, that makes sense to me.
There's also an intermediate category where an online/streaming version is available, but it's defective – a number of live Bob Dylan (!) albums from the Bootleg Series are missing the track transitions between the individual tracks. It feels like somebody forgot to include the pregaps when ripping the discs for digital distribution, and it's been like that for years…
Even local super popular rock bands from 80s don't always have their entire catalog available on streaming services, and solo endeavors of their musicians are often nowhere to be seen there.
People seem to assume that any decent creative output always gets carried forward to the next form of media tech. But there are 78s that didn’t make to LP, much less anything after that.
Another example: Nick and Nora pre code films weren’t on Netflix the last time I looked.