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endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks agoNobody who gives a damn about artists being paid fairly and not swindled out of their already miniscule pay should use spotify.
I don’t entirely buy this argument.
In my experience, Spotify has made music accessible enough that I listen to thousands of hours per year, far more than anyone else I know. Vs before Spotify I couldn’t be bothered. Even assuming Spotify pays artists less than other mediums, there’s a point where the much higher listening rate is the better choice.
I’m not especially hard core of a music listener so my attempts at other services were disappointing enough that I probably wouldn’t bother.
Idk its up to your morals. I am not fine with big labels getting a bigger cut, big labels getting even bigger cut by sneaking in fake artists with stock songs into most popular playlists, big labels getting an even bigger cut by having ai generated instrumentals make more revenue for them on the most mediocre platform with one of the lowest artist payouts. If that doesn’t bother you then keep using spotify.
Certainly the fake artists and ai crap bothers me, but I haven’t yet been knowingly affected by that. Most pop music sounds generated by ai anyway so what’s a few more.
vermaterc@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
If it wasn’t for Spotify, I wouldn’t know most of the artists I listen to now. They might receive little money from me listening to them, but it’s still more than they would receive if I didn’t knew about their existence.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Every streaming app has a reccomendation system, some are even betterand don’t lock you down into a genre to save money like spotifies. I found most of mine on soundcloud and now tidal is doing a better job. On spotify once a year weekly playlist had good fresh stuff. After i switched to tidal i discovered i had 4 ai generated songs/stock music peddled as real artists on my likes from Spotify reccomendations.