iTunes & Amazon Music to stop all music downloads in 2019

An article that I read today came up with some interesting news about iTunes. I never had an iTunes account per say as I like to collect physical music; although I did streaming before but didn't like it. It says that iTunes are to phase out music downloads from all of their customers accounts in early 2019. Documents reported from this article have said that they plan to transfer all of their iTunes music customer accounts to Apple Music sometime after Christmas 2018. If you're with Apple Music after that iTunes music cut off date; you cannot download stuff on Apple Music anymore as you can only stream music on it.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/201...sic-downloads/

Also in the news recently; Amazon have announced they have ceased support to include MP3 imports to their customers accounts.

Amazon also said that they plan to get rid of their entire music download storage service by January 2019.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/201...s-mp3-support/

Amazon Music users had first noticed the company’s plans to roll back support for MP3 imports. In a statement on its website, Amazon confirmed the news.

“The Amazon Music Storage subscription plans (free and paid) are being retired. New subscriptions will be accepted until January 15, 2018. You can upgrade your Amazon Music storage plan, until that time.”

Similar to Apple’s MP3 termination timetable, Amazon Music Storage will run until January 2019. Then, the e-commerce giant will completely remove the service.

Since last Monday, users on the company’s free 250 storage plan could no longer upload new music to their MP3 locker. Customers who have purchased MP3s on the website, however, will still be able to access these downloads.

Is anyone here going to okay about this news or going to be in a complete panic about it? This news for a lot of you guys is probably not a good start for you leading into 2018 if you become worried about it. I'm not going to be affected by this news but I do think it can lead a lot more people to continue to stream music on other services or to have a resurgence in physical music sales once again as we hit the new year for future purcahses.