Shadolith

marcy

@Shadolith

the brave little choster

audio things for Deltarune + Homestuck + Hiveswap + other stuff | Xenoblade my beloved

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Shadolith
@Shadolith

On one hand I did determine a long time ago that I need to be scoring multimedia projects for my own creative fulfillment, but it does suck to know that the barriers to making a living doing music for music's sake have gotten so much higher in recent months. I feel fortunate that my primary source of income is direct pay from commissions but I'm definitely bummed about the apparent prospects for getting some of my personal music projects out there :(

Shadolith
@Shadolith
erica
@erica
curiousquail
@curiousquail

listen, I hate yucking people's yums about spotify wrapped

but everything the company does is actively hostile towards musicians like me and it really sucks to see it paraded around with free marketing.
Look at this shit!

A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool.

Scenario: A musician has paid a distributor to put their music on Spotify. People (subscribed or ad-based) are listening to it - but Spotify has deemed it's not listened to enough for their threshold and therefore will not pay out for streams.
Full stop, Spotify is profiting off that music without paying the artist.

'but it's so easy to listen to any music I want at the push of a button' really fucking screwed us all.

erica
@erica

there's plenty of alternatives to spotify and losing your playlists or spotify weekly or whatever the fuck is not worth supporting a service this repeatedly hostile towards musicians

 
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