Meme: Amphibian creature labelled “Spotify” emerging from a body of water, but being pushed back. Captions read: “Stop them! Don’t let a single company rule them all. If you see a Horrid Beast monopolizing, push it back in.”
I buy music from Bandcamp. Drm free. Musicians get a bigger cut. You can write a note to the band when you buy and sometimes they write back. Their recommendations and write-ups feel more human than algorithm. Feels pretty good. Renting music on Spotify sounds like a bad deal for me and my personal habits.
Of course, they sold themselves and probably will enshittify in a couple years.
For older stuff that’s not on Bandcamp… Honestly I don’t feel bad about pirating music that’s 15 years old. Copyright is too long, anyway.
And for new mega pop stuff? Not my jam, but I’d probably still buy it drm free somewhere.
I’m surprised BC hasn’t been ruined by Epic yet. At the time of a deal I was very afraid for them declining fast but I still don’t see any effect on the platform. I guess EG has that much money they don’t need to milk BC for what ammounts to a pocket change for them. They just wanted their presence in that market too.
!remind me in 5 years, lol
They sold Bandcamp to some company I’ve never heard of. SongTradr https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition
It’s one thing to rule them all and a whole other to lock users into your platform
Apple monopolized the podcast market for a decade but never stopped people from using the podcasts there with whatever client people wanted to use it with
Spotify is just going the shitty route and forcing people to use their client and not just their servers
They are using monopoly loosely. To run a podcast through Apple was easy and you could run it on many platforms. On Spotify you are locked into using their services. Just because Apple had the vast majority of podcasts at the beginning did not make them a monopoly, Spotify forcing podcasts to either be on their large platform or not be makes them a monopoly.
Yeah, this is why is use YouTube music - got to support the little guys!
Anyone here know of a good open-source and/or federated platform for music and podcasts? I heard of Funkwhale, but is it usable?
I will learn to entertain myself with ruinously catchy freestyle like an oompa loompa before Spotify sees one red cent from me.
