Cloud metadata kills media permanence

Vendors increasingly host the descriptive metadata (track lists, artwork, provenance) for physical media as cloud services; when those servers are turned off, users lose decades of contextual data and simple offline features. This is a specific form of digital obsolescence that affects cultural heritage, consumer autonomy, and right‑to‑repair arguments. — If left unaddressed, platform‑hosted metadata will accelerate cultural loss and create a governance problem requiring standards for provenance, portability, and archival redundancy.