the-only-jam

my name is just Jam but I stuck :(

I'm somehow 20, and a profesional sound designer currently looking for work! I Also like robots and Gals + some plants too

Ask me anything currently, I'm still learning a lot, like media, people, english, memes etc. Thanks to my gf for the help!


surasshu
@surasshu

they're providing zero evidence for this, just unilaterally taking tracks (and entire albums associated with them) down. and notably are doing it to artist just big enough that it's a few bucks, but not so big that their post will go viral and end up in the news cycle, or enough that they would have any feasible legal recourse.

but imagine doing this to hundreds of thousands of artists, that's a lot of "a few bucks" they don't have to pay out. hmm! 🤔

i am absolutely convinced this is a systematic thing on their end and that it's deliberate. spotify is literally the sheriff from nottingham out here.

these are just the ones i happen to see on my timeline. i'm furious.

(ps. @mwgewehr & @floopy r on here, show them some love if you can, buy their stuff on bandcamp etc, and this is singto conley's bandcamp)


surasshu
@surasshu

i truly wonder how many people this is affecting and whether a class action lawsuit is feasible. so mad


erica
@erica

i am begging everyone to stop using spotify. the "i rely on the discover weekly playlist/algorithm" excuse just does not cut it anymore im sorry


DianeThePunk
@DianeThePunk

There are SO many better options. You can get two new albums a month on Bandcamp for less than what you pay for Spotify premium, which lets you listen to a lot of cool new shit while directly supporting artists. They also have a feature where artists can recommend other artists directly. Also you can like...just talk to people and ask for recommendations for new music. It's easy! Here, I'll even demonstrate:

"I'm looking for some music that's similar to Sleater-Kinney, can anyone give some recommendations?"


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in reply to @surasshu's post:

This shit has been ultra stressing me out. Everyone I know of that this happened to is signed up with Distrokid.

Do we know if other distributors deal with it better? Because I heard Distrokid's customer service won't do shit to help you. I'm on the fence about switching distributors before my next release, but if it's not just Distrokid, then it feels kinda hopeless.

it does look like everybody is on distrokid like you said. my experience with them has not been good (they didnt pay me for months!) and i left them recently for symphonic--however symphonic is having its own issues with my releases (all my stuff got removed from youtube and idk why, theyre trying to figure it out). i hear cdbaby is decent? idk haha

Yea I heard Infloresce used Symphonic so I started looking into them more. However, there are a bunch of people online claiming it was the worst distributor they ever used. I feel like the only way you get treated well is if you are a large artist that can get accepted into an invite only distributor. It's really discouraging 😓

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in reply to @erica's post:

yeah having music I like being taken down randomly without warning and removed from any playlists I have basically nullifies any other reason I had to keep with spotify. what the fuck is the point in finding new music if they're just going to nuke it without warning?