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Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

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Re: Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

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Post by paranoidrobot »

I think this is the wrong approach.

If they have issues with people abusing the revenue model by publishing white noise and generating fake plays - go after that.

However the 1K streams per track thing is going to negatively impact small artists who might have relatively large collections, but few over 1K annual streams.

If it's a processing cost issue then make it so that payouts need to meet some reasonable minimum threshold.

> between $1 and $2 will be added to monthly bills for customers in several territories, including the UK, Australia, and Pakistan, Bloomburg reports. This is said to cover the cost of audiobooks, added to the platform late-2023. More recently, video learning content was introduced to further diversify the offering.

I don't want, and never wanted, Audiobooks or Podcasts or News or other crap on the music app.

They mention that there will be another tier added which doesn't have these -- great, so long as it keeps the audio quality for music at the same level, and doesn't have ads.

Re: Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

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Post by rightbyte »

"Additionally, Spotify now requires a minimum number of unique listeners for royalties to apply. This attempt to stop "further manipulation by bad actors""

What a load of manure. The only reason manipulation of royalties even works is that they pool the streams such that the consumer wont pay the artist he listens too.

Just tie the royalties to what each user listens to and what they pay. Solved. No abuse possible.

But no. Have to have an opaque algorithm and do hacks upon hacks to obscure its funamental flaws.

Re: Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

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Post by paranoidrobot »

Lacerda69 wrote: post #3

And the enshitification begins. Remember that you as users are next. Find a sustainable alternative now. I personally recommend bandcamp + youtube combo. Yt to explore and find new music, Bc to buy the music I enjoy and __own__ it.

I find new music through YT fairly regularly - it's what got me into a whole bunch of artists I'd never seen/heard before.

Unfortunately with YT I've had to cancel my Premium subscription on - they want $34/month, and I'm not paying that.

I'll move to using third party apps/adblockers, and paying some of the creators I watch directly.

Re: Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

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Post by HenryBemis »

paranoidrobot wrote: post #4

I think this is the wrong approach. If they have issues with people abusing the revenue model by publishing white noise and generating fake plays - go after that. However the 1K streams per track thing is going to negatively impact small artists who might have relatively large collections, but few over 1K annual streams. If it's a processing cost issue then make it so that payouts need to meet some reasonable minimum…

> I don't want, and never wanted, Audiobooks or Podcasts or News or other crap on the music app.

Regarding Spotify, which I use daily, I also dislike their updates. I remember some months back I could disable/hide "Recommendations". Now in all my (personal & private) playlists I get a list of Recommendations. It's an annoyance because when I scroll fast to reach the bottom "to listen to that one song" it end up surfing the Recommendations (did I mention I dislike them?).

So, it makes me want to go to apkpure, find an apk from 2020 and use THAT (slim chance it'll work) because most updates are "to increase engagement" (pester you/me/all) with 'new and exciting content!!!' (bleh)

Sidenote: for podcasts I am using a 2021 version of the Podcast Addict (the one displaying the full screen ad)(which you can block with NoRoot Firewall)

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