Ok but serious question, I don't want to personally manage my music library on a server. For movies and TV this is fine, I consume a couple of these a day but if I want a steady stream of new music streaming apps have made all this very easy and very convenient.

When my 4 year old yells out in the car for a specific song, will these cover it?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I might be in the wrong place for this sentiment, but I also seriously want to pay for my music.

[–] ugh 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Buy directly from the band to support them because streaming services pay pennies. That's my excuse to buy merch from artists I love. Concert ticket sales don't have very high margins, either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Duder, you are not wrong. But I also am a) lazy b) busy with a tiny kid c) unlikely to fairly apportion my patronage if left to my own devices.

I hear you. I agree with you. But, in a perfect world, I need to find a service that at least ostensibly aligns with my ideals and allows me centralize my expenses in this area.

Edit: on second thought, my uneducated position is that I’d rather pay cents to everyone whose music I enjoy than 20 bucks to one band whose shirt I wanna wear. I haven’t thought this position through deeply, but this is my first impression of the sitch atm.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I’d rather pay cents to everyone whose music I enjoy

I listen to a lot of music. a lot a lot. a few years ago, according to Spotify, I listened more than 99.5% users in my country. and when out of curiosity, I took my listening stats and used the publicly available info on Spotify's payouts to estimate how much I contributed, it turned out that my most listened artist barely got a dollar from me during that year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

This person speaks wisdom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not based.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I try to make up for it other ways 🤣

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If your are talking about Spotify, my understanding is that you are not directly contributing cents to each artist you listen to based on plays, but rather based on overall popularity pool. Your subscription money then mainly goes to Taylor Swift. You do increase the popularity of the artist, but if you for instance like some hard-to-digest music you listen to once in a while, that does not really do much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I’m going to look into this. You come bearing dark news if this is true. Thank you for typing this out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

The payment model is described in the book Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Corey Doctorow, which is where I have it from. Then the small caveat that I might be misremembering something or that I misunderstood something.