Silent tracks seem unnecessary. Why not play an actual album, but with the sound turned off?
If you're "playing the tracks while snoozing", then having your sound on means the next song to come on will be making noise.
How to Make Money from Spotify by Streaming Silence
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Re: How to Make Money from Spotify by Streaming Silence
#62Perhaps this is why Pandora has the annoying "I'm still listening" button, so they don't have to pay out royalties on things their users aren't listening to.
But bots can click on that too, so soon there will be captchas but then bots will do captcha solving or they will outsource it.
Re: How to Make Money from Spotify by Streaming Silence
#63As a huge fan of John Cage, I feel obligated to point out that this is not "scamming" - it is a true performance of a musical work[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3 John Lennon and Yoko Ono also did "Two Minutes of Silence"[1], which was later covered by Soundgarden as "One Minute of Silence" on the album Ultramega OK (they didn't like Yoko Ono's minute, so they only covered Lennon's[2].) As Deb…
I remember one of my favorite radio stations mentioning this work and then mentioning how they successfully sued somebody for "copying it". Vulfpeck had better watch out!
"...in 2002 the composer Mike Batt made a six-figure, out-of-court settlement for infringing on John Cage’s 1952 work, 4’33″
http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/the-stupidest-music-laws...
Re: How to Make Money from Spotify by Streaming Silence
#64As a huge fan of John Cage, I feel obligated to point out that this is not "scamming" - it is a true performance of a musical work[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3 John Lennon and Yoko Ono also did "Two Minutes of Silence"[1], which was later covered by Soundgarden as "One Minute of Silence" on the album Ultramega OK (they didn't like Yoko Ono's minute, so they only covered Lennon's[2].) As Deb…
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