Ether DiverSpotify to raise prices, then pay musicians even less.
If your music is on Spotify, why? Are you so successful that you enjoy subsidizing Spotify executives' extravagant lifestyles?
PartHairCut@etherdiver I do not pay for Spotify, nor would I, but I do want MY music to be heard by my friends and colleagues. My last EP is on Bandcamp and SoundCloud but people just don’t click to listen. I’m not going to make any money off my music (and I’m lucky enough that it’s just fun for me), but since I can’t “give them a CD” any more, putting my music where they listen is the only way.
I’d rather no one else made money off it either but I don’t know how else to “share it”? I need people to be able to add it to their “regular listens” playlist, and not have to make any special effort to get my music in their ears.
If there are any suggestions I’m all ears.
Opaque Mass@PartHaircut @etherdiver Some people listen to radio, some people listen to "their" music. Spotify combines those two models. Bandcamp really only suits the second model; its other features are mainly drivers to the page where an artist sells music. As long as Bandcamp has no way for people to share personal playlists, we're stuck with finding a way to do that ourselves. Would love to see a fediverse platform like Funkwhale step up to that task.
SLS@opaquemass @PartHaircut @etherdiver
Yes, SoundCloud does this but is just as bad and getting worse