spotify is not a music platform, it’s a tech platform designed to extract wealth from musicians and place it into the pockets of executives. hope this helps.
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It’s a tough thing. As far as streaming services go, there isn’t one that truly pays a fair rate to artists. Even tidal and apple pay dismal amounts. The only way musicians can be fairly supported is with a track or album purchase on their bandcamp, or at a show, etc. But most fans can’t afford that
Counterpoint, as someone who lived through the cassette era, I can no longer hear the awfulness. 🤪 👴
But to be frank, a good quality chrome tape, recorded in a good machine, Dolby NR, played back in a good deck, sounds, good enough, in my opinion. 🤔 Perfectly valid way to listen to music. 👍
last night i laid in bed with my cat and listened to a whole album. no phone notifications to interrupt. nothing. just music, enjoyment, and a warm purring creature there to keep me company.
i never want to use spotify again after i get all of my music bought/downloaded.
I literally never stopped embracing physical (vinyls and cassettes, anyway. Somehow I've never got on with CDs). I just like having something to hold, I guess 😅
The thing is, Spotify is no longer all that great for discovery. In the niche that I listen to, spotify's algorithm has decided that women singers are a separate genre and basically rarely recommends them regardless of what I listen to. There are a lot of really crazy algorithmic decisions there now
Everyone should be deleting their Spotify. The harder thing is for artists to pull their catalogs and lose a chunk what little income they have coming in. For some that’s real money even if people struggle.
We need yall to move in solidarity with us to these other platforms.
no, they're separate royalty revenues. there is some overlap, but artists are paid from spotify via a distributor or label, and ASCAP typically pays songwriters whose songs end up on radio, TV, film, etc
As Spotify adds features it keeps getting worse. Their weekly discover has gotten worse and worse at showing me anything I actually want to hear.
Spotify is not immune from
Enshittification, they’re a prime example of it.
Also their sound quality is terrible.
After our band got burned for publishing $ when Spot Started our attorney said it would cost us the 450K they owed us in attorney fees so we dropped the case and I won’t put any music on that idiot platform. Absolute scum bags
Honestly the best is probably Amazon music or apple music. Much higher bitrate and apps. There are others like tidal that advertise lossless audio but I can't speak for their apps or anything
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I liked vinyl, and I liked CDs, and DAT wasn't bad, but tapes sound awful.
Why, of course I still have all mine. Why do you ask?
But to be frank, a good quality chrome tape, recorded in a good machine, Dolby NR, played back in a good deck, sounds, good enough, in my opinion. 🤔 Perfectly valid way to listen to music. 👍
spotify tbh destroyed my relationship with music. it became mindless consumption instead of enjoyment of what i was listening to and i hate it.
i never want to use spotify again after i get all of my music bought/downloaded.
What Spotify does well, even over Apple and Tidal, is being easy. The app is pretty good, it's on every platform, Connect works well, etc.
I've set up Plex as an alternative and it works for me, but we need something that's as low-friction
As for what the algorithm is pushing, that's easy: it pushes low-royalty music. Jazz and electronica are especially prone to this.
We need yall to move in solidarity with us to these other platforms.
Ftr Bandcamp is good
Spotify is not immune from
Enshittification, they’re a prime example of it.
Also their sound quality is terrible.
(also this is really reminding me to replace the hard drive in my iPod Classic so it can be usable again!!)
And a photo of my mp3 players in return. I really do not need a third one but I kinda also need a third one