Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.

• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Less than 1000 streams is like a band being unable to fill up a very 100-person venue for a 10-song set once in a year (for the kind of band that plays live gigs). Opening acts for obscure bands play more than that. If you’re that unpopular, you’re hardly a band at all.

  They didn’t say all AI generated music gets less than 1000 streams; they implied most of it does.

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  • t0fr@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But then are you implying that those bands that are that unpopular are undeserving of getting paid even a little? Because they’re not a “real” band?

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stuff that nobody wants to listen to just takes up space and clutters up searches, making it harder for people to find the stuff they actually want. It had negative value for the platform and for users. That’s why they went the AI stuff gone. If a few actual bands miss out on a few dollars of revenue as a result of Spotify getting rid of the outright junk, I’m not gonna shed a tear over it.

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      • t0fr@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You don’t have to shed a tear. But I find your take incredibly harsh on bands that are trying to start out and find their audience.

        Eliminating low quality AI content is desirable for me as well, but nuking even more incentive for bands that are starting out is the wrong thing to do in IMHO

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