Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate the culture of startup selling themselves to big companies

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  • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Launched in 2008…

    Is it really a startup if it was started during the Bush administration?

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    • ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is such a random acquisition. It’s like IMDB buying some film aficionado’s tumblr profile.

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.

    the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.

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    • Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I dont blame them either, Id take the buyout if it set up all my employees with a few million

      Big if if i was a person who did any of this

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  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s their dream to be acquired and live long without working anymore. Of course not everyone dream, but the most common.

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  • dan69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This really does choke innovation, market share and is strongly considered market monopolistic behaviors.

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spotify can sample these nuts.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We are the Spotify. Lower your webpage and surrender your songs. We will add your userbase and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

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• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This really, really sucks. WhoSampled is awesome, especially for sample heavy music from the 80s and 90s. They’ve been around over a decade, weird to call them a startup. While I am pissed, if Spotify came and offered me a truck load of money for something I was running and probably making little to no money, I can’t say it wouldn’t be tempting.

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• Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This sucks to hear. I love sample based music I hope the site doesn’t get worse.

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• motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  hmmmm

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting. This will probably enable them to get significantly closer to their goal. I’ve tried their site a few times but it only had really mainstream, obvious samples. If Spotify can combine their song data with whatever system they have that isn’t just user-contributed, it’ll probably be significantly more useful.

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