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#fuck music streaming

ghoulnoise
@ghoulnoise

i'd welcome basically anything to make streaming less of a scam for artists

since 2018 I've made less than $400 from streaming. in the same time period i've made around $4500 in actual sales on bandcamp and itchio. the only reason I am able to do this full time is because i've had consistent work since the end of 2019 and am paid to write and produce the music to begin with.

i have revenue share on a few games (single digit percentages) and that alone is extremely helpful to my ability to keep making music, and it's something i wish more games did for their composers because there is little to no "tail" on music sales or streaming (unless you're insanely well known and the game you worked on is literally a masterpiece everyone is obsessed with) to help supplement the slow times when there isn't much work, or games get canceled. even time limited rev share (say, having a small % of rev share the first 3-5 years after release) is nothing to sneeze at.

Foxtrot68
@Foxtrot68

fucked up how pirating music is always the better option instead of streaming it

I thought "hey I should check out YMO since I like Haruomi Hosono and his work with Happy End", so I went to youtube, found the official auto generated playlist for their first studio album and I'm met with a video that obviously doesn't belong, and since I have trust issues with music streaming services I always reference track listings on discogs because people there care about maintaining a good and accurate database, and yup this is missing tracks too so it's no good if I wanted to listen to their debut studio album as it was released in '78.

so I went looking for a magnet link and the first torrent I found had folders for all of their studio albums, remix albums (which I can choose to not download since I just want the official stuff), singles and EPs all in .flac format. the official, legal way of listening to music gives me that shit. piracy always wins out, fuck you youtube.

virtueisdead
@virtueisdead

PSA TO PEOPLE WHO DONT USE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES OR WHOSE STREAMING SERVICES DONT NOTIFY YOU OF NEW RELEASES (THE GOOD NEWS KIND OF PSA)

yo so are you having an absolute nightmare of a time trying to keep up with the latest releases by your favorite artists? yeah me fucking too i have like 120 different artists i actively want updates on releases for and there is borderline no way to do with without paying some bullshit monthly fee, right?

WRONG

yeah i have 2 things that will help you not suffer so much. first is muspy and second is RSS Bridge. this isnt fullproof but its enough to capture most import releases by the artists if follow in the net and possibly more for you if youre more patient than i am. SO.

muspy is what youre gonna use as the backup plan in case the second part doesnt work. muspy is as simple as signing up and adding or importing your artists from your audioscrobbler. you can find it right here.

anyway muspy will give you an rss feed that you can hook into your RSS reader. if you dont know what rss is, its basically a notification system that generates those notifications automatically based on the content of websites, and its nearly as old as the web itself. i personally use akregator on my computer and feeder on my phone but feel free to use whatever works for you.

its important to note that muspy uses musicbrainz which is a user contribution based system and that means if there arent many dedicated fans of the artist muspy wont work, so you should go contribute to musicbrainz if one of your fav artists doesnt get new releases added quickly there.

now for the tedious but most effective part. i want you to list out the artists that you MOST DESPERATELY want to get updates from, that you cant miss new releases from or youll fucking die. i have 24 of them personally. for those artists, i need you to find their bandcamp, soundcloud, or apple music, whichever one of them they post new releases on most frequently or whichever you would prefer. once youve got that, pick a host of rss bridge from here and for bandcamp, search "Bandcamp Bridge" and use the artist name that you see in the url for their bandcamp page, for apple music search "Apple Music" and for the artist id use the number at the end of the url for their apple music page, and for soundcloud search "Soundcloud Bridge" and for artist use their @. the instructions for getting the feed of each bridge are pretty simple, im sure you can figure it out, but feel free to comment if you need help with that.

once you generate the feed, just right click/long-tap on the button for the atom feed and copy the link, then add that to your rss reader. do this for all the artists you absolutely have to get updates from, and soon youll have an entire folder that in your feeder just called "Music" or something that you can check and see updates from every band you listed. voila!

ok youre welcome comment if you need help with something bye

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