Notices tagged with spotify, page 2

#Spotify #Entertainment The Ghosts in the Machine http://dlvr.it/TGzjgl

#Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Is Richer Than Any Musician in History

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/06/26/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-is-richer-than-any-musician-in-history/

In recent days, two excellent producers of electronic music have both decided to take down all their music from Spotify.
Om Unit and Andreas Tilliander (TM404, Mokira) point to Daniel Ek's investments in war technologies, as well as Spotify's algorithmic attempts to steer music listening towards cheap, meaningless muzak by "fake artists" (an elaborat plan which is described in a book released next month by journalist Liz Pelly).

#acid #dub #ambient #techno #spotify #fuckspotify

Helluva an article on Spotify taking advantage of musicians

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
#Spotify #Music
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

#Spotify is not a "music streaming service" you sweet summer child.

Spotify is a "give your money to Joe Rogan while fucking artists" service.

@nemobis meaning that #spotify fails to comply with the transparency obligation? And is likely not to comply with the #dma.

@dangillmor This is what happens when #platforms are not properly regulated. #tiktok #facebook #instagram #youtube I just wonder about the possibility that #spotify isn’t just copying an already existing ‘business model’ from eg. a social media conglomerate, or whether it’s (already) the other way around. @EUCommission #dsa #dma.

German public broadcaster BR published a 3 part series called #DirtyLittleSecrets on how #Spotify uses fake artists to make more money. How the record labels were part of this. And how real artists are left behind. In May 2023. So I am a little surprised how this suddenly becomes a new story. Trailer: https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL2Jyb2FkY2FzdFNjaGVkdWxlU2xvdC81M2ZhOTJjYy1jNmFkLTQ5MGYtOGVjMi1hYWNkNzQzOGU3ZDg

You have to give it to #spotify - with each new version their UI gets more cluttered and messier, but they finally got "now playing" song properly shown in the panel in #Linux on #KDE / #Ubuntu. It took them just about 3 years and like 30+ minor versions!
#music #software #app #dev #development #ux #ui #cx

#Spotify and #AppleMusic are in the business of taking money from captive consumers and turning it to #copyright cartel shareholders. Any profits come from financial/regulatory arbitrage or decreased transaction costs. If one side has a 30 % advantage on each payment, the other side has only one choice. But whatever amounts go in or out of those pots, the results is the same: landlords eat it all.

Recent news about #Spotify aren't news at all; they were discussed in #copyright hearings back in 2020. If you control the #music catalogue, of course you'll play what costs you less. It's the entire reason #UMG has the valuation it has (huge catalogue of dead people). It's the stated business model of collecting societies like #Soundreef which sell ambient music. EU collecting societies knew back in 2017, and complained their catalogues were being demoted.

https://mamot.fr/@nemobis/104189296469903761
#ValueGap

I never used #Spotify, apparently I was right.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

Please don’t give #spotify your time, attention, or money. They hate musicians. They hate record labels. They hate you. They love money. They’re generating fake slop and stuffing their playlists full of it. They do it deceitfully by making up artist names and putting the same track out dozens of times under different names, different artists, and different playlists.

And they’re making artists pay (or accept lower royalties) in order to have any hope of appearing.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/?utm_source=mastodon

Reported first by Ted Gioia.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

Joe Rogan Has Been Dethroned on Spotify. His Successor's Podcast is a Delight.

#MediaShift #Spotify #Podcast #Fame #Successor

https://slate.com/life/2024/12/kylie-kelce-podcast-joe-rogan-taylor-swift-motherhood.html

Como odio el aleatorio del #Spotify

If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #BoycottSpotify #Spotify

If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #BoycottSpotify #Spotify

If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #BoycottSpotify #Spotify

This #BandcampFriday
I am asking those of you who pay for #streaming services like #Spotify to consider spending the same amount of money on direct payments to independent musicians. #Bandcamp is one way to do this! There's also Faircamp, @mirlo, Jam Coop, Subvert and many more. Ko-FI and Patreon too!

Felt somewhat chagrin that my Spotify Wrap was almost the same as last year so tried clicking the "New music" playlist.

I. Hate. It.
All. Of. It.

#music #spotify #old