It’s super-complicated to figure out how much revenue each stream earns musicians, but unless they’re already one of the biggest names in music, it ain’t much. Which means that, either way, pirating the music isn’t harming them to any significant degree, unless everyone was pirating their music, and no one was attending their live performances.
Honestly, I’m about to also drop Netflix and find one of these $2/mo plex servers - pay through bitcoin or something. I already run the whole Jellyfin/Sonarr/Radarr/Jackett/Reverse Proxy thing myself, but having to deal with all the local storage is just a pain in the ass. Might as well let someone else deal with it.
They go to sites like Reddit, don’t realize it’s half-CIA, then come out talking like sleepy CIA test subjects bc that’s how "“public discourse” sounds now
Innertune is the best at the moment if you ask me but there’s also Simp Music. ViMusic has ceased development but is the same idea just with a different style UI.
SpotTube let’s you login with your Spotify account so you have access to your library and playlists but I find the app to be buggy and just generally ugly.
Personally, I use Spotube (GitHub) for my phone. They have a desktop version as well but I haven’t tried it yet.
It’s decent and works as intended, but can mess up some songs sometimes (I’m assuming they are just doing a YouTube search with the artist and song names).
The biggest reason for me not switching at this point is, I’m already in the Spotify ecology. I have my playlists, I have my liked artists and songs. Sure, all of that CAN be converted, but not conveniently.
When I started using Spotify it was almost certainly the best option for music streaming. They progressively turn more hostile towards their users, as is inevitable, and so now I use a crack.
I mean I think that could be a fair price, clothes can be pretty expensive to make and you also have to live off of selling them. Of course I am in no position to buy them at that price but I’m a broke student.
$100 USD for a hoodie is dumb expensive. I refuse to pay more than $50 for a hoodie, and even then it better be a high quality hoodie. Better make me sweat in 40 degree weather.
The point of a 100 dollar merch hoodie isn’t that you get a 100 dollars worth of hoodie. It’s that you support the artist. A less expensive hoodie means less for the artists. That’s kinda the point of merch…
it gets more interesting if you calculate how much of the percentage of a user’s subscription goes to spotify, how much goes to labels and how much ends up in the artists themselves.
If I buy one song from one artist off bandcamp the artist earns about $1 from me, which I can then listen to thousands of times without them seeing another cent.
I’m moving back to buy physical media… But it’s sad that isn’t feasible to buy the entire library that I have on platforms. That would be an whole life effort decades ago, now it’s even harder since the availability for physical media decrease so much.
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Why are people such massive dorks now when it comes to piracy, fuck off
I could try being the devil’s advocate and argue a point or two, but I won’t because I’d be overall a worse person without piracy lol
I think people who use spotify have probably hurt artists more than hurting spotify could ever hurt them.
It’s super-complicated to figure out how much revenue each stream earns musicians, but unless they’re already one of the biggest names in music, it ain’t much. Which means that, either way, pirating the music isn’t harming them to any significant degree, unless everyone was pirating their music, and no one was attending their live performances.
Honestly, I’m about to also drop Netflix and find one of these $2/mo plex servers - pay through bitcoin or something. I already run the whole Jellyfin/Sonarr/Radarr/Jackett/Reverse Proxy thing myself, but having to deal with all the local storage is just a pain in the ass. Might as well let someone else deal with it.
Maybe Stremio is what you need?
I use Stremio with the Torrentio sources.
I’ll tell you right now most the bands I listen to aren’t fucking millionaires
I always wonder why lots of the people I interact IRL with seem a bit off. This post reminded me of the exact reason
They go to sites like Reddit, don’t realize it’s half-CIA, then come out talking like sleepy CIA test subjects bc that’s how "“public discourse” sounds now
Hello, record executives? Poopkins would like a word.
Can’t seem to find the modded spotify that gives you paid features
Pretty much just want 320kbps streaming, ad free, and playback syncing between all my devices
https://www.xmanagerapp.com/
https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager
It’s hosted on the Mobilism forums. Enjoy.
People bragging about modded Spotify always confuse me when there are plenty of better open source options utilising YouTube Music.
Okay I’m interested, care to list a few projects with looking into?
Innertune is the best at the moment if you ask me but there’s also Simp Music. ViMusic has ceased development but is the same idea just with a different style UI.
SpotTube let’s you login with your Spotify account so you have access to your library and playlists but I find the app to be buggy and just generally ugly.
Personally, I use Spotube (GitHub) for my phone. They have a desktop version as well but I haven’t tried it yet.
It’s decent and works as intended, but can mess up some songs sometimes (I’m assuming they are just doing a YouTube search with the artist and song names).
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The biggest reason for me not switching at this point is, I’m already in the Spotify ecology. I have my playlists, I have my liked artists and songs. Sure, all of that CAN be converted, but not conveniently.
When I started using Spotify it was almost certainly the best option for music streaming. They progressively turn more hostile towards their users, as is inevitable, and so now I use a crack.
Most artists are not millionaires.
Benn Jordan of The Flashbulb has stated that he makes more money shorting Spotify’s stock than he does from income on Spotify streams.
If I play one song, from one artist, once a day, for a year, the artist earns about $2 from me. BFD lol
Then go buy the cd directly. Or donate.
Y’all try to pretend like you are pissed where their money goes but then choose to ignore those options.
It’s about you all just not wanting to pay, don’t try and make it assume noble bullshit.
It’s bet none of you have donated directly to creators and if you have it’s less than $300 life time total.
Im literally paying for Apple Music
Oh no I’ll gladly buy merch from the artists themselves if I could afford to
Check out our new hoodie! Only $100.
I mean I think that could be a fair price, clothes can be pretty expensive to make and you also have to live off of selling them. Of course I am in no position to buy them at that price but I’m a broke student.
$100 USD for a hoodie is dumb expensive. I refuse to pay more than $50 for a hoodie, and even then it better be a high quality hoodie. Better make me sweat in 40 degree weather.
The point of a 100 dollar merch hoodie isn’t that you get a 100 dollars worth of hoodie. It’s that you support the artist. A less expensive hoodie means less for the artists. That’s kinda the point of merch…
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it gets more interesting if you calculate how much of the percentage of a user’s subscription goes to spotify, how much goes to labels and how much ends up in the artists themselves.
Well, luckily for them they can have more than one listener
If I buy one song from one artist off bandcamp the artist earns about $1 from me, which I can then listen to thousands of times without them seeing another cent.
Spotify replacing songs in my library without warning basically radicalized me to start using modded apps and buy my favorite artists on bandcamp
I’m moving back to buy physical media… But it’s sad that isn’t feasible to buy the entire library that I have on platforms. That would be an whole life effort decades ago, now it’s even harder since the availability for physical media decrease so much.
Sounds like spotify to me
Make sure you’ve got everything off of Bandcamp cos it’s going to enshittify rapidly after the sale.
I was honestly surprised it held out as long as it did
Is there another alternative? Bandcamp is the only similar website that a lot of artists I enjoy use.
Direct donations maybe?