• crank0271@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    From the article:

    "…journalist Liz Pelly has conducted an in-depth investigation, and published her findings in Harper’s—they are part of her forthcoming book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.

    "Now she writes:

    ‘What I uncovered was an elaborate internal program. Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, provide Spotify with “music we benefited from financially,” but also a team of employees working to seed these tracks on playlists across the platform. In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the percentage of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform.’

    In other words, Spotify has gone to war against musicians and record labels."

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        This should theoretically at least be illegal, as they abuse the power of the platform to favor certain tracks unfairly.

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              3 months ago

              Spotify is AFAIK Swedish

              It was started in Sweden where its operations are still based, but it’s headquartered in Luxembourg and it chose to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

              Luxembourg screams “tax efficiency” to me, so their list of pre-IPO investors must be quite the thing.

  • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    I don’t know, do you people let Spotify decide that much about what you hear? I normally never let the music run through so that automatic recommendations play, but I choose explicitly what’s added next in the queue. So the problem mentioned in the article is not relevant to me at all.

      • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        Yes, listening to whole albums is not only great with albums you already know, but it’s also my favourite way to get to know new artists. A single song is often not enough to understand the whole picture or range.

        Well, seems to be an old-fashioned approach. But I’m also not the type of person who has music blare in the background all day. So I don’t like the radio-like approach by Spotify to just let anything play what the algorithm thinks is fitting.

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          3 months ago

          I’m a little weird like that, I often listen to the whole discography if I find a single song or album I like. My music knowledge is very deep and but rather narrow

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      3 months ago

      So instead of the cents that artists get from streaming you propose they get nothing at all? You can buy from Bandcamp if the artists are on it and use ListenBrainz.

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        3 months ago

        Exactly, they aren’t losing anything and there’s hope a better system will come along.

        Agreed on Bandcamp though. The very few artists who use it get my money through there.

  • Uschteinheim@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I just recently discovered a band on Soundcloud that has amazing tracks but they all have the familiar feeling of good songs being listened to decades ago, with the voice of the singers similar to that of famous singers of all genres. This is the band in question. [(https://soundcloud.com/flowerpunkhobo)]

    I think it’s AI generated music from previous songs from the past.