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Minigame Island @chocosnax10/25/2023, 8:24 PM

2 mello @MelloMakes

curious quail @curiousquail10/25/2023, 4:51 PM

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!

https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-changing-how-pays-artists-stream-thresholds/

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.

#musician woes #spotify #fuck spotify #spotify wrapped

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Annie D @ann-arcana10/25/2023, 5:07 PM

to say nothing of the way they doubled down on platforming actual fascists ...

curious quail @curiousquail10/25/2023, 5:09 PM

god, right? or that the CEO funds weapons contractors - we don't even have to get IN to the 'they screw over artists' before we scratch the surface of 'abhorrent company no one should support'

RSS download -> https://ghoulnoise.com/feed/@ghoulnoise10/25/2023, 6:26 PM

jfc

curious quail @curiousquail10/25/2023, 9:08 PM

inb4 insufferable 'help my band get to the minimum threshold of streams' email blasts

Froey @froey10/25/2023, 8:55 PM

I get spotify for free through my employer and never gave them a penny, buttt I think even at this point I am ready to close my account just so they don't get any traffic from me.

chaos gf @zip11/29/2023, 4:14 PM

I've got an external CD drive and I have been aggressively eBaying anything I used to listen to a lot. It's nice. I have all the media on my shelf where it can't disappear at random. For newer music I buy from HMV or other stores. I'm pretty sure my average spend is lower than a subscription.

Aarler Johnson/Rasa Reinhardt @Deadbolt11/29/2023, 4:56 PM

Fuuuuck me running. Is there any alternative that you know of? Hopefully one that pays artists better?

curious quail @curiousquail11/29/2023, 5:34 PM

ultimately when it comes to streaming services, the answer is always kinda 'no'.
Apple Music and Tidal pay artists the most, but even then it's 'how close can we get to 1c per stream' as opposed to anything livable. Also, the latter doesn't have as large a library as Spotify or Apple as far as I know.

Hands down, buying from artists directly is the best option - but we live in post-pandora's box world where streaming is here to stay so the options are either:

kill the 'streaming is ok' cop in your head and only listen to music you actually own, or pick whichever service you find the least evil (or the most financially viable for your situation) and create 'repeat at night while you're asleep' playlists of your fav artists albums so they can scrape some extra pennies each month.

Oh and if the latter, definitely don't do free advertising for the streaming service by sharing their infographics lmao

cassie @porglezomp11/29/2023, 5:42 PM

Latest indication I’ve seen was that Tidal actually has a larger library than Spotify. I agree with everything else you’re saying.

@sarksus11/29/2023, 9:15 PM

Took a look at Tidal again just now and it looks like they’ve noticeably improved their Japanese selection but it’s still missing stuff compared to Apple Music and Spotify. Their primary focus is probably on other regions. This is not really a deal breaker if you don’t mind going on YouTube or someplace else for any tracks that are missing tho.

Coda @Codarobo11/29/2023, 5:10 PM

I don’t tend to judge people for using stuff like Spotify on a personal level or anything but I DO think it’s one of the most quit-able services. You can just stop using it and get everything elsewhere, there is nothing important that only Spotify has or provides access to except for Joe fucking Rogan and fuck that guy.

slimeybear @slimerybear66611/29/2023, 11:47 PM

I thought Joe Rogan was a you tube only guy? Didn't relaize the people like him are big on Spotify too

Coda @Codarobo11/30/2023, 2:14 AM

He is like their main podcast guy. They spent millions on being the exclusive host of his podcast or something like that

Coda @Codarobo11/30/2023, 2:14 AM

He has been probably paid more as an individual than any musician has ever been paid by Spotify ever

slimeybear @slimerybear66611/29/2023, 11:43 PM

The thing is the oh it makes it so easy to listen to any song at the press of a button is arguably not fully the case based on wjat genred you listen to.

I mostly only listen to video game music and indie game music and most smallee games and even a lot of bigger ones don't have their soundtrack on Spotify at all but do on You Tube and Bandcamp or eventualy to buy on steam.

Jessica Sinclair @LazyCatJessica11/29/2023, 11:46 PM

Does anyone have any idea the best way to set up an app to stream from a private server on my phone? I've been a power user of Spotify since the start for it's ease of organisation and playlisting (whilst also buying all of the music I can on sites like Bandcamp) but I've been tired of their shit for a while, so I figure it's time to bite the bullet because I own the music anyway.