Spotify’s plans to take money from subscribers but never pay a fucking dime to anyone else , ever.
Cutting out everyone but the middleman
The perfect corporation as no employee, no product, pays no taxes, and grows infinitely. Capitalism at work
Move to Tidal if you value artists
Fuck Jack Dorsey too though, and its lacking a few bells ad whistles last time I checked.
Move to piracy and donate to the artists directly to better support the artist, if that is an option.
Tidal still take a cut from the artists revenue.
I’ll pitch Bandcamp as an option, especially if/when they bring back Bandcamp Fridays next year (where they don’t take a cut on specific days). Not everyone’s on it, but it’s generally a reasonable, legal option for those artists that are.
Some artists don’t have donation links, so Tidal is the best bet
That seems like a quick way to get me to cancel my Spotify subscription.
You’d cancel rather than just not listening to that content?
Edit: I’m just asking a question, wow.
The closest I want to AI music is ENUNUNU or Diffsinger, which still require a human(s) to actually put in effort for a good quality song.
But they don’t care because there’s less profit in letting humans be creative.
Right. AI music? Hopefully not, it is likely going to lead to generic slop that may infringe on other artists copyright. AI Podcasts? OH GOD NO! factual news isn’t working with AI and you guys think that opinions with AI is a good idea? Are you crazy?
Now music recommendations? That might just work given that algorithms are already doing a decent job at presenting new ( to the particular user, not by actual age) music that the user may enjoy. The question really is if that is actually better than what we already have. And there is only one way to find out, which is by testing it and then being honest about it.
Now music recommendations? That might just work given that algorithms are already doing a decent job at presenting new ( to the particular user, not by actual age) music that the user may enjoy
In my experience they really suck…“oh, you liked that song from this artist? let me just push a shitload that is categorised in the same basic genre without actually considered the specific track you liked”
It’s so ridiculously generic in its suggestions it’s useless. So yeah, AI can almost only do a better job at this than currently.
There is already AI music which people create and upload.
The only legitimate use I can think of for AI in podcasting might be for realtime translations so people who don’t speak the language of the podcaster can still listen. Even that makes me feel weird, but I think it could be done ethically-ish. Same deal for voice-cloning, I think that would be super-useful for realtime translations, so listeners still kinda hear the host’s voice, even translated. But every other use I can think of is ripe for abuse and won’t result in quality content.
Been off Spotify for over a year now after being on for about 15 years (2008-2023 I think). Trying to prioritize buying music from contemporary artists who are not big. Not too sure about the best places to buy from though, after Bandcamp was sold and laid off a bumch of people. Where does Qobuz or 7digital stack up in terms of paying the artists?
