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Wait, what. Are you saying that the costs of using the service should be tied to how much listening one does? Because if you're not, then what you are saying sh
by estomagordo 3y ago
Wait, what. Are you saying that the costs of using the service should be tied to how much listening one does? Because if you're not, then what you are saying should have no bearing at all on how much royalties anyone gets.
- Dylan16807 3y agoAssuming a fixed fee, it's a tradeoff. Do you let the people with more plays steer everyone else's money, or do you let plays from different people be worth different amounts? I think the first option is worse. Neither option pays a fixed amount per play, so that factor doesn't favor either choice.
- hmry 3y agoI read this as splitting each user's monthly payment only across the artists they themselves listened to (like how YouTube premium works) instead of pooling everything together. So artists with more paying listeners would get more, while artists who only get listened to by free bot accounts wouldn't get anything.
- rain_iwakura 3y agohow would this work if i listen to 1000 bands? the split would be miniscule.
- Dylan16807 3y agoIf you listen to one or two songs each from a thousand bands, the amount each band gets is minuscule with either method.
- rain_iwakura 3y agothis was basically what I was asking. would this scheme actually make more money for the musicians? thanks for a reply.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThe total amount doesn't change, but I think it would be fairer.
- esafak 3y agoThe split would be fair, and if the same algorithm applied to every subscriber, popular musicians would get paid more.
- cuu508 3y agoDo you mean, how do you handle $0.001 monthly payouts? Spotify could set a payout threshold. If the threshold is not passed in a given month, the balance carries over to the next month.
- jfim 3y agoOne way it could work is if Spotify divided say $8 per user across all the streams that user listened to that month. So if a user only listens to Justin Bieber this month, he'd get the full $8 in stream royalties, while someone listening to more artists would redistribute their $8 across all of them.
- rightbyte 3y agoNo I'd like my subscription (which I canceled due to the new UI and new ToS) should go only to the artists I listen to, proportionally to the amount of minutes played.