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Looking at my stats, Spotify earns my bands somewhere between $0.000022999977 and $0.090333931633 per play. As an indie artist I'd much prefer they let people
by Griffinsauce 6y ago
Looking at my stats, Spotify earns my bands somewhere between $0.000022999977 and $0.090333931633 per play.
As an indie artist I'd much prefer they let people just download my music as well, enjoy it and support me in other actually meaningful ways.
The recorded music is just a tiny bit of the service that an artist provides. This whole discussion is just diseased from the pop industry that runs on abusing copyright and drills our heads full of constantly repeated songs.
The idea that this is a healthy artistic environment and has anything to do with actual musicians is ridiculous.
- malikNF 6y ago>>As an indie artist I'd much prefer they let people just download my music as well, enjoy it and support me in other actually meaningful ways. If that's the case, you can set up your own website and distribute your music via torrents, youtube (insert youtube-dl joke hereb), or soundcloud.
- herbstein 6y agoOr Bandcamp, which supports Name Your Price and free downloads.
- Griffinsauce 6y agoYes, Bandcamp is great for that. Sadly they'll never get the amount of attention, funding etc. as Spotify just due to the fact that they won't earn millions on the backs of artists. Exploitation will always win in this kind of market.
- breakfastduck 6y agoAs an indie artist browsing on HN, I'm sure they're well aware of the existence of soundcloud.
- malikNF 6y agoWhich is my point actually, there are many platforms and technology already that let artists allow their users to download their art without incurring a huge cost. A relatively good torrent seed box costs around just 5 usd. So thanks to current technology cost of distributing your work for free isn't that hard.
- m-p-3 6y agoI buy a DRM-free copy on Bandcamp whenever I can to support artists I really like, and keep the lossless version somewhere safe and on my Plex server. I'm still subscribed to Spotify, and mostly listen my music there.