Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

  Oh, piss off. I just want to financially support artists for making something beautiful I enjoy. Streaming is the easiest because of space constraints. I still buy the CDs of my most favourite albums, but I cannot stress enough how great it is to NOT have to rip the MP3s every time, make sure the tags are good, etc.

  It’s convenient.

  If you don’t like Spotify’s new ID check, kill your Spotify account and use an alternative - Tidal and Qobuz are both excellent.

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  • sad_detective_man@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    woah woah woah, chill bro goddamn. let’s sit and think about this. Record labels take pretty much all of the cut for streaming. Here is the chart showing what each service pays artists per song played. I used to think Napster was the best and subscribed to them for years, which is ironic considering their history Image

    obviously the payout is going to vary widely but it’s common knowledge that for even the most played artists, the pay from this avenue sucks. they simply use these services to get their music to potential concert goers since that’s the income that record labels actually let artists keep. vinyls, merch, and usually tickets unless they REALLY get fucked over like child musician groups tend to.

    If You have an interest in discovering just how shady that industry is, you should watch this essay about payola and how it’s literally more profitable for a musician to die than it release a certain number of future albums. I’m going to stick to pirating albums and using my cash to actually see the artists I love

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s still giving them SOMETHING, isn’t it?

      Of course I’d prefer to buy directly from the artist (hence: Bandcamp), but that’s not the world we live in. Flat out piracy is just the worst of all the available options.

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      • yesukwunt@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Flat out piracy is the best of all available option. Boycott the major and support local independant artists insteas

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      • sad_detective_man@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        it really isn’t though. I don’t really know where you live or how your local economy is organized but where I’m at people in my tax bracket are extracted for every ounce of raw money we can generate, both now but even speculatively in the future. it really doesn’t make sense to consider theft as a taboo against corporations since we are literally a resource that’s being exploited in real time for far much more than whatever artists would lose if we all stole.

        .sopuli is a Finnish board right? my understanding is that you guys have way stronger social ethics and consumer protection, so yeah. in your world I probably would sign up for that Napster subscription again. or even better, a service actually from Finland. Bandcamp is good too.

        here, though in the present we are have far worse things to worry about than theft. being tricked into defending the feelings of billionaires is a big one. letting corporations curate our education and media is another. but I hope you continue to have the life where you can engage with your economy in such a good intentioned way.

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  • Mika@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think if you send like a dollar to everyone on your playlist, it would end up being like 100 times more than they get from the system.

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  • yesukwunt@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re mostly supporting the industry that told your favorite artists to kill themselves once they’re not profitable anymore. Why do you think they keep blowing thelself up? The music industry is inherently exploitative.

    Not to even mention all the corruption (payolas) going on.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why do you think they keep blowing thelself up?

      I have honestly no clue what you mean. Could you explain?

      You’re mostly supporting the industry that encouraged your favorite artists to kill themselves once they’re not profitable anymore

      Which is why I’m actively searching for the best possible options.

      When I learned that Spotify is fleecing artists, I moved to Tidal.

      Then I learned about the French Qobuz, which pays artists even more, and I switched.

      I support artists on Bandcamp. I buy physical CDs and will soon fire up a vinyl collection.

      I’m aware that 100% of the money I spent on art doesn’t go to the artist, but even if it’s 10%, it’s going to be 100% more than if I resorted to piracy.

      Supporting piracy to show corpos the finger is the equivalent of stealing CDs from a music store, because the store price includes the store’s margin, transport costs, manufacturing costs, and only a (relatively) small percentage goes to the artists.

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      • yesukwunt@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ah yes you wouldn’t download a carp

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• utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

  They might want to try LMS and its github.com/epoupon/lms?tab=readme-ov-file#music-d…

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• Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  me basically

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  An algorithm for them:

  set rand [clock microseconds]
  set len [mpc_pl_len]
  set to [expr {$rand%$len}]
  mpc_pl_jmp $to
  

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  • sad_detective_man@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    mpc, is that shuffling media player cassic with the system clock? isn’t that what shuffle already does ?

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      mpc as in mpd CLI client, where mpc_pl_len and mpc_pl_jmp procedures are not listed, but just call it with some other Unix commands to get playlist length and jump to a playlist position.

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