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Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Why are you not moving to a different distribution model where you'll get what you're worth? I'll go where the music is. If you keep putting it on Spotify then I'll play it on Spotify.

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[–] toothpicks@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Someone mentioned Faircamp recently. I haven't had a chance to look into it properly but it looks great!

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't even like using Spotify or Pandora, it's full of ads and I can't play what I want to play. I just go to YouTube or download what I want. Their structure sucks.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know what, this makes me feel a lot better about using an ad-blocker when using their site. Although, I would prefer if the artists I listen to didn't exclusively use Spotify for some reason.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm all for ad blockers. But this doesn't solve the creators' issue with not getting paid. The internet is a severely underutilized resource. Creators should be able to sell their content directly to us without middlemen like these.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Creators should be able to sell their content directly to us without middlemen like these.

They can and do. Most are just lazy/uneducated/choose not to.

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[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I have never really seen the attraction of Spotify. Music is accessible so easily in so many ways. I own thousands of CDs, listen to the radio all the time, and have at least 100gig of music files to make playlists from, much of it music by people I know. I play and listen to live music regularly. What could spotify possibly offer me that I can't access in a more ethical and recogniseable way?

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Stop using spotify. Start using Vimusic, innertune

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[–] toothpicks@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I cancelled my Spotify and I'm not sure I'll be releasing any new music on streaming services. I'm over it

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