I refuse to subscribe to any streaming services. Fortunately I have enough music on vinyl, cd and digital format. Some of it I have not listened to yet.
Everything that Spotify (and similar) does is solely in service of the listener, which by design makes this near-impossible to fight. People LOVE it… and when I explain the artist’s perspective, even the genuinely sympathetic don’t change their listening behavior.
There are streaming services which feature artist payouts 10+ times larger per stream than Spotify. The one I use is Qobuz. It helps, too, that there's no billionaire CEO that needs to be paid.
The fact that people hear "streaming" and immediately think "Spotify" is heartbreaking. It's hard to believe that this platform has dominated so quickly and thoroughly, given that its only benefits vs. other streaming platforms are "social sharing" and its sheer ubiquity. Even if its artist payouts were far better, those features would be some pretty weak tea indeed ...
I figure that since streaming is not going anywhere, I'm trying to support the best factors within that technology.
Much of the value generated by artists comes from rewarding the technology (the streaming platforms), rather than the main players, the artists themselves.
The web3 brings some hope for an artist-centered model. 🤟
I refuse to subscribe to any streaming services. Fortunately I have enough music on vinyl, cd and digital format. Some of it I have not listened to yet.
Everything that Spotify (and similar) does is solely in service of the listener, which by design makes this near-impossible to fight. People LOVE it… and when I explain the artist’s perspective, even the genuinely sympathetic don’t change their listening behavior.
Interesting
Yeah total bs.... screw Spotify and the rest.... I’ll be giving NFT$ a shot asap. Can’t be any worse.
There are streaming services which feature artist payouts 10+ times larger per stream than Spotify. The one I use is Qobuz. It helps, too, that there's no billionaire CEO that needs to be paid.
The fact that people hear "streaming" and immediately think "Spotify" is heartbreaking. It's hard to believe that this platform has dominated so quickly and thoroughly, given that its only benefits vs. other streaming platforms are "social sharing" and its sheer ubiquity. Even if its artist payouts were far better, those features would be some pretty weak tea indeed ...
I figure that since streaming is not going anywhere, I'm trying to support the best factors within that technology.
Bandcamp's model seems least-icky, if i may be so floral with my language.
Much of the value generated by artists comes from rewarding the technology (the streaming platforms), rather than the main players, the artists themselves.
The web3 brings some hope for an artist-centered model. 🤟
Absolute fire.