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This seems really cool. Its aim should not be to usurp Spotify (will never happen since major record labels are entrenched in Spotify now). Rather, I could see this as an alternative to Bandcamp or other similar indie music sites. I actually like the pay-per-play model personally even though that might irk some people. I'm interested to see how the pricing shakes out for an audiophile type who consumes lots of music. |
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Now we're duped into the false belief that somehow Spotify, while making record profit year after year paying artists $0.0000001 cent per stream is reasonable?
This economy will bankrupt everyone who is not in their engineered and very controlled food chain if we give them subscription money just to listen to sponsored playlists that we can find and listen to elsewhere for free if we look hard enough. Tons of great musicians are putting out music on YouTube for free, and many other places, but the lazy attitude of only paying attention to charts, and letting playlists dictate what succeeds is really killing music because the money pipeline is locked down by the big industry, and it only pushes sterile and engineered music, not real honest music by naturally talented musicians.
It's a sham now, and the wrong people who do nothing to create and deliver the music make the profit, while the real artists pay the worst price of working hard. Musicians are forced to beg people with GoFundMe and Patreon campaigns and very often die broke in this weak new type of Internet music economy.
Plain and simple. Music needs a new reasonable delivery model, and we need to stop supporting monopolistic communities for content they don't make nor promote fairly while they totally rip the true OC creators off.
I have no relation to OP, nor the platform cited... I'm just a musician that has been through the storm.