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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
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Favorite spotify alternatives?
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How about just boycott it because it's terrible for artists? It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
Spotify's whole business model is exploitation.
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
I think you're confusing Spotify with Apple or Google, just last year:
Spotify Just Turned an Annual Profit for the First Time Ever
This is the same year it paid out
its collective payments to the music industry for 2024 totaled $10 billion.
10 billion in a single year, not bad for a business model that's "exploitation"
One of the things people struggle to understand is that it's not the 70's anymore, there is more music being uploaded every minute that you can listen to in a year, this has a diluting effect on the value of the thing being uploaded
On top of this piracy which is what Spotify is competing against, like the true cheapskates who don't care about artists at all and simply rip youtube videos don't pay artists a cent (or $15 a month, 70% of which goes to the music industry)
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
I do agree with this though
shouldve boycotted the moment they housed joe rogan on the platform.
said one user on X.
The irony.
At least it's German... I guess. Any alternatives that I can download onto my Xbox?
Idk about Xbox but deezer works in a browser
Similar interface? Any ads or anything (don't have premium so that's an upgrade)? Easy enough to use? Can I make a 6k song playlist?
Its pretty much a clone, but faster / more responsive. Good dynamic playlists. Free version has ads. https://www.deezer.com/en/offers/free
You can make and migrate your playlists, but you have to use their cross sign in api. I would prefer CSV or json export import myself.
Oh it also has lyrics in most apps. I actually like it better and wish I had signed up sooner instead of fucking with Pandora for so long