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by pier25 921 days ago
It's a cool idea.

There's absolutely a need of a tool to generate artist profiles and manage its content. I'm not sure if basing that on Spotify is the right move for the target audience.

Small artists are extremely unhappy with the current situation and they all blame it on Spotify. It doesn't help that Spotify is implementing a new policy which removes money from very small artists [1].

I'm building something in the audio/music industry and I'm in contact with dozens of small artists. From what I've seen, most use Spotify as a necessity but they hate it. Many even have removed their tracks from Spotify or directly refuse to upload it there. Bandcamp seems to be what these artists use (although personally I'm not sure how long it will last).

[1] https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-...

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I hear you! what I can say is that although Noise gets the artist music from Spotify, it's pretty much because (like you said) it's the most popular and dominant platform for artists. Of course, I'm planning to give artists the ability to integrate with different services (like Bandcamp and even Soundcloud) so they can show off their music from their favorite platforma. But for now, as I'm trying to get the product right, I'm focusing on Spotify only!