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Oregon's Multnomah County Library Launches Music Streaming Service

posted by chromas on Monday July 30 2018, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly

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The Portland Mercury reports:

For many years, local libraries have allowed patrons to check out physical media—from vinyl LPs to eight tracks to cassettes to CDs—free of charge. Last month, Multnomah County Library launched the Library Music Project, an online platform that's continuing this legacy of accessibility by curating an online collection of albums from local artists [...]

Anyone can stream albums from more than 120 local artists on the Library Music Project's user-friendly website, but to make playlists or download songs, you must log in with a Multnomah County Library card. [...]

It's not totally uncharted territory—libraries in Madison, Wisconsin; Edmonton, Alberta; Nashville, Tennessee; and Seattle, Washington, all have similar programs in place.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:54AM (#715006)

    No the shelves aren't quite empty. There are books nobody wants, and for good reason. The public library collection includes books on subjects such as Flash and WiMAX, obsolete technologies from ten years ago.

    A person, homeless or otherwise, would learn more by owning a smartphone than by wasting any time in a library.