@stevestreza I stream music. But once a month I track down the socials of one that I've really over played that month and tip at least a hundred dollars. I've been doing that for at least the last five years. I'm not suggesting that's the right number, just it ought to be some number.
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@stevestreza yea incidentally this is why I don't put my music on streaming sites. It takes away your power as a listener and mine as an artist by making the value be in the service not the music.
Incidentally no one ever buys my music on bandcamp either :(
@stevestreza@cjrando I much prefer having an on-disk library for music (offline listening at no extra charge, no bandwidth consumption), and Bandcamp is very convenient for adding songs directly, and it even compensates artists better
@aismallard@stevestreza@cjrando mind sharing what software you use to play it? I’ve been streaming (apple/spotify) for a while now. Windows groove was a poor experience as i recall. iTunes? I’d love to support musicians better
@tsyum@aismallard@cjrando The Bandcamp mobile app has it built in. On desktop you can use the website but it's far from ideal (or just download the files and use whatever music player you like, which is what I do).
@stevestreza there's a tool to search your Spotify playlist that will take you to the Bandcamp page for the artist, I've used it before and it's super handy versus manually searching it https://hypem.com/merch-table
@philsherry@stevestreza These are average comp numbers, which includes Spotify's free listening tier. If you pay for Spotify Premium they're a lot closer (though Spotify still lags slightly)
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As an artist I can say Bandcamp is very fair and transparent to artists, and their availability is ace. Some Fridays they forego their share of the purchase amount altogether. Only downside is that not many people like paying with Paypal. @stevestreza
@stevestreza i have literally just mailed a check to artists whose music I have downloaded. I never use apple or spotify or any pay service. I strip all ads from youtube and thank the artists personally.
@stevestreza that $10 probably gets you the whole album, versus just one song, so the comparison isn't quite right. Is it feasible you'd listen to a good album over 100 times in your lifetime? I'd say yes, but it would take some time.
Having said that, buying also has other benefits: a label can't just pull the plug and have the album disappear from your library. I listen to a lot of music which is not on Spotify...
I still don't use Music streaming and never had because all Music I want to listen on the go i have stored locally on my Smartphone or sometimes in my Nextcloud. 😉
Besides that I still buy Songs and Albums instead of streaming, because it's more convenient to me and without any form of a recurring Subscription. 😁
One time payment, owning for a Lifetime instead of just a License for limited use. 😏
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