Oh lol.
How come Aaliyah first album is the only one on streaming services???
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Oh lol.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Yes. House got broken into. CD’s were in binders, easy to run off with.
areohbee824
Superstar
How can I do that? I’m about to get a couple of her physical CDs this year. I got a MacBook tho so I won’t be able put the CD inside
You’ll need a external DVD drive, go into iTunes, rip the CD. Once you see it in your library you right click the entire album and select “add to iCloud Music Library”. It will take some time and sometimes a few tries, then once it’s complete, edit the track listing and album cover the way you want it
Her music is timeless and a lot of it aged really well. I have three neices, age 11, 10, & 5. They legit love her.
OfTheCross
Veteran
rely on streaming services, brehs 
papertrail08
Pro
Just buy the fukking CDs. That's what I did when iTunes didn't have Pac's pre-All Eyez on Me stuff for the longest.
Pure Water
Veteran
#Stream&DownloadGang
Same. Except I use Spotify for streaming. I had a bad experience with Apple Music messing with my local library.
FloorGeneral
I don't even know anymore...
This is why I don't rely on streaming services. Never have, never will. My music collection is legit. I have it on a NAS and can access it whenever, wherever.
Anyways, my Aaliyah FLAC folder:
Anyways, my Aaliyah FLAC folder:
The uncle fukked up for this! 
Instead, there’s a single, stubborn man, sitting on a catalog that includes almost all of her most famous work, as well as albums from Timbaland and Toni Braxton, and a trove of unreleased original material that’s never before been heard. The situation puts her entire musical legacy at risk of fading from memory. Year by year, streaming accounts for a greater portion of an artist’s visibility and reverence among the next generation of listeners. And he refuses to budge.
To understand Aaliyah, and the fate of her iconic catalog, you have to understand her uncle, Barry Hankerson, who groomed the singer for stardom from a young age as her manager and the co-founder of her label home, Blackground Records. The 70-year-old Harlem native was an extraordinary figure in the music business, who helped launch not just Aaliyah’s career, but also those of R. Kelly, Ginuwine, Timbaland, and Missy Elliott. But his achievements remain shrouded in mystery. “I’m consistently amazed by the things Barry Hankerson has accomplished,” says veteran music journalist Jim DeRogatis, one of the few members of the press ever to talk regularly with Hankerson, mostly during his long tenure at the Chicago Sun-Times. “He is this Zelig-like figure. Almost nothing is known about this man.” Despite multiple requests for comment, Hankerson declined to participate in this story.
Right now, the only Aaliyah album legally available online is Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number, the one that Hankerson doesn’t control the masters for, and the one where she sings lyrics penned by the suspected pedophile she was fraudulently married to. This does not honor her legacy.
As the years pass, there’s a bigger risk—that Aaliyah will be forgotten. Nostalgia is cyclical, and Aaliyah has already peaked as a fashion icon on Tumblr. Right now, the music industry is the midst of a shift to an all-streaming landscape.
Instead, there’s a single, stubborn man, sitting on a catalog that includes almost all of her most famous work, as well as albums from Timbaland and Toni Braxton, and a trove of unreleased original material that’s never before been heard. The situation puts her entire musical legacy at risk of fading from memory. Year by year, streaming accounts for a greater portion of an artist’s visibility and reverence among the next generation of listeners. And he refuses to budge.
To understand Aaliyah, and the fate of her iconic catalog, you have to understand her uncle, Barry Hankerson, who groomed the singer for stardom from a young age as her manager and the co-founder of her label home, Blackground Records. The 70-year-old Harlem native was an extraordinary figure in the music business, who helped launch not just Aaliyah’s career, but also those of R. Kelly, Ginuwine, Timbaland, and Missy Elliott. But his achievements remain shrouded in mystery. “I’m consistently amazed by the things Barry Hankerson has accomplished,” says veteran music journalist Jim DeRogatis, one of the few members of the press ever to talk regularly with Hankerson, mostly during his long tenure at the Chicago Sun-Times. “He is this Zelig-like figure. Almost nothing is known about this man.” Despite multiple requests for comment, Hankerson declined to participate in this story.
Right now, the only Aaliyah album legally available online is Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number, the one that Hankerson doesn’t control the masters for, and the one where she sings lyrics penned by the suspected pedophile she was fraudulently married to. This does not honor her legacy.
As the years pass, there’s a bigger risk—that Aaliyah will be forgotten. Nostalgia is cyclical, and Aaliyah has already peaked as a fashion icon on Tumblr. Right now, the music industry is the midst of a shift to an all-streaming landscape.
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They tryna play hardball
They think it is gonna increase the physical album sales when it wont. People are just gonna be like "okay, I will pirate the shyt and put it in my library"
