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by CodesInChaos 1987 days ago
I'd like fixed price per play to get replaced by something closer to splitting a users subscription fees based on the time they spent listening to a particular song/artist.
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Exactly this - https://www.deezer.com/ucps ("User-Centric Payment System"). To my knowledge Deezer hasn't (yet?) implemented this model.
I might be wrong but I think Youtube Premium uses that pricing model. At least their FAQ seems to imply that's what's going on: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en
It's weird to me that a large share of my spotify monthly fees go to Ed Sheeran and Drake and Taylor Swift even though I literally have never streamed them, and almost none of my monthly fee goes towards the artist that I stream all the time.
https://resonate.is/ has a stream-to-own model
this 100%