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Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by drewdevault »

jsnell wrote: post #59
drewdevault wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not making that argument. I made an argument that you have better options in which the artist is paid more .

Taking the music without compensation and pretending that you're totally going to buy some music or merch from some other artist doesn't actually lead to artists being compensated. While in the plan where you buy music and only listen to the music you bought you don't need this app at all.

I've spent thousands of dollars on Bandcamp over the past several years, attended many live shows, bought merchandise, etc. Suggesting that one is "pretending" to do these things when making this argument is a hell of a strawman. I feel like pretending that you're supporting your favorite artists by listening them on Spotify is a bit more of an appropriate comparison.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by bentt »

Anything that helps shake up the system is good for artists at this point.

It would be cool if this app helped you gauge how much to pay your favorite artists… If it logged the artists you listened to and then gave you something like a bill, periodically. The bill would show how minutes listened to for each artist over the past month and then would find links to buy their music directly. Even better this app would let you listen to that source music if you owned it.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by petesergeant »

drewdevault wrote: post #26
Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this. If everyone who uses this software were to use Spotify direct, ads and all, in the long run it would make pennies for the artists at best. You're better off listening to music however you please and buying albums on Bandcamp to support the artists; a lifetime of spotify listening will make less money for an artist you…

> Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system

Spotify pay 70% of their revenue back to the rights holders, leaving 30% for operating costs and profits. What percentages would you recommend, and what are you basing it on?

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by portaouflop »

jbverschoor wrote: post #38
vdaea wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People here all day defending p2p piracy but when you are taking the bandwidth from a multibillion, multinational corporation then you're the devil himself :'( :'( :'( :'(

"bandwidth from a multibillion, multinational corporation" that started out as a frontend for the pirate bay. They were probably friends, as both are from Sweden.

So they started out pirating music and then decided they want to get rich from stolen culture while giving nothing back. That is taking the whole pirate meme a bit too literally.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by gumballindie »

Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

HN has sadly become a bit of a #warezcentral. People demanding free stuff, either to train their ai models or for personal consumption.

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Post by [deleted] »

__warlord__ wrote: post #30
vdaea wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People here all day defending p2p piracy but when you are taking the bandwidth from a multibillion, multinational corporation then you're the devil himself :'( :'( :'( :'(

I think the "hacker" part of "hacker news" doesn't mean much anymore.

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Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by pelasaco »

Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

Please nobody needs such disclaimers. If people are not willing to pay for it, they won't pay it. If they are, they will do.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by apwell23 »

drewdevault wrote: post #26
Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this. If everyone who uses this software were to use Spotify direct, ads and all, in the long run it would make pennies for the artists at best. You're better off listening to music however you please and buying albums on Bandcamp to support the artists; a lifetime of spotify listening will make less money for an artist you…

> Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this.

How exactly do you do this ? What a dishonest comment to support stealing.

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