"It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on [#Spotify this year,” #WeirdAlYankovic said in his video. “So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice #sandwich at a restaurant.”
He added, “So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.”]
Just a reminder that if you're a #Spotify customer, you're paying the platform to give anti-vax, conspiracy-theory podcaster Joe Rogan $250M to spread dangerous misinformation.
I switched to Deezer. There are many other choices: Apple, Amazon, Tidal, Qobuz and others. If you are the type to abandon Twitter because of Musk, why pay Spotify to make Joe Rogan wealthy and the world less informed?
Remember: you’ll do more for musicians if you delete Spotify, pirate all your mp3s and buy a single album every month on a platform with fairer percentages (Bandcamp, formaviva, heck even iTunes).
Dass #Spotify alles, was unter 1.000 Streams innerhalb der letzten 12 Monate hat nicht mehr bezahlt, ist auch für #Autor:innen und #Hörbücher relevant. Viele Hörbücher werden als Streams angeboten – weil Verlage es so wollen oder weil die Distributoren das automatisch dort anbieten.
Bitte hört unsere Hörbücher nicht bei Spotify. Bitte kauft sie woanders, wo wir auch Geld dafür bekommen.
Spotify officially demonetises all tracks with under 1,000 streams
This is just an insanely bone-headed move that is so pointless.
These artists don't even get paid that much money, and yet Spotify wants to cut off their revenue.
I'm done with Spotify. In fact, I think I'm flat-out done with music streaming services. All of them are exploitative. back to buying digital albums for me.
It's estimated that 100,000 new songs are uploaded to #Spotify every day.
Inevitably, that means loads of really great music never gets heard.
Thanks to Venus Theory, I've just heard about #Forgotify, which points you to songs on Spotify that have no listens, or at least no complete play throughs.
Before you get too enthusiastic about audiobooks on Spotify, bear in mind that it's not clear authors will get any benefit from their work being there (therefore they probably won't) and that this lack of transparency appears to be a feature, not a bug:
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
Une application de streaming musical gratuite, open source et sans publicité. Utilisant les API de #Spotify pour organiser le contenu, obtenant ainsi les listes de lecture, pour ensuite aller sur #YouTube afin de diffuser l'audio.
Il n'est pas nécessaire de se connecter avec Spotify, c'est facultatif pour retrouver ses playlists.
Clients #Spotube pour #Android, #Linux, #Mac et #Windows https://spotube.netlify.app/
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
TL;DR Podcaster published on Anchor, moved to another host and back (due to 'wrong download numbers'), in the process got locked out of their own podcast and lost 3k 'followers' on Spotify. If those folks had been subscribed to RSS in a proper app rather than follow through some proprietary system, there would've been much less damage. Lesson: don't tell people to follow on Spotify.
"In a completely unrelated note, Spotify is shutting down in Uruguay after the country passed a bill that requires fair pay to artists, as reported by MixMag. The company made threats to shut down when the bill was first suggested back in July and now it has followed through. A spokesperson for Spotify actually wrote Uruguay's Minister of Education, Pablo Da Silveira, to say that the country’s bill would force it to “pay twice” the amount of royalties to artists." "
Nachdem bekannt wurde, dass #Spotify an Künstler mit kleinem Abspielzähler gar nichts mehr auszahlen wird, zieht nun #Deezer nach: Mindestens 1000 Plays pro Monat von 500 verschiedenen Usern muss ein Künstler haben, damit er überhaupt eine Ausschüttung bekommt.
Bisher zahlte Deezer 0,1 bis 1¢ pro Abspielvorgang.
Major labels get more profit, smaller indie labels and unsigned artists get less.
"A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool."
When Spotify entered the podcast world, audio producer Alex Sujong Laughlin was wary — and with good reason, since back when she was a social media editor working at The Washington Post, she saw the devastating effect some private tech companies have had on media and journalism. She's sad to be proved right. "Spotify — along with many other companies — wants to create a closed ecosystem for the creation, distribution, and consumption of podcasts, bypassing RSS technology altogether because that would allow them to harvest more listener data to leverage with advertisers," she writes in this story for Defector. Luckily, she says it's not too late to take back our feeds. "You don’t have to understand the technology of RSS to choose to listen to your podcasts on an open app. You can just choose to do it." [Story may be paywalled]