Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year
GarytheSnail@programming.dev 6 months agoI typically like to just buy my music but the appeal of spotify, to me, is the algorithm and being able to play random singles and one offs from artists I would probably not ever hear a single thing from otherwise.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
I like bandcamp a lot more than spotify for finding new music. A lot of it feels less soulless because it is (presumably) written by real people.
…bandcamp.com/…/essential-releases-may-10-2024 - timely daily.bandcamp.com/lists/japanese-acid-folk-list - genre deep dive
Plus on a given album page, like castleratband.bandcamp.com/…/into-the-realm-2 , it has links to “Other people liked this”, and the genre tags. It’s pretty good for discoverability, though maybe not as smooth as the soulless algorithms of spotify.
Bandcamp sold to epic and then got sold to some other vultures so they might turn to shit, but until that happens it’s a good, profitable, seemingly equitable platform. Artists got a big cut, you got drm-free music. The idea seems solid, if you can avoid the “infinite growth at all costs” and “i’m gonna sell out, fuck you” traps.