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(From a sibling comment of mine) I wish Spotify would let me "upgrade" individual albums to purchases. Like I'd still pay for my monthly sub, but if I particul

(From a sibling comment of mine) I wish Spotify would let me "upgrade" individual albums to purchases. Like I'd still pay for my monthly sub, but if I particularly like a track or artist, I could buy that album for a discounted price (like $5, ideally) and the artist would get like 95% of that revenue. It doesn't really solve the problem of "your music is so generic nobody wants to buy it and nobody can tell you apart from the other similar artists", but maybe it doesn't need to? There's already enough excellent, good, and mediocre music out there to last me several lifetimes even if nothing else gets made. There's way more supply than demand. Everybody wants to be creative, I guess, but not everyone is actually good at it? Maybe it's OK for most of that music to fall by the wayside and only the 1% of the 1% to really make it. Streaming is a good proving ground, and upgrades could help the really good artists earn a bit more. To me it's not really that different from the infinite supply of shitty books, articles, games, movies, software etc. Most of it just isn't good enough to stand out.

gruez 2y ago
>I wish Spotify would let me "upgrade" individual albums to purchases. Like I'd still pay for my monthly sub, but if I particularly like a track or artist, I could buy that album for a discounted price (like $5, ideally) and the artist would get like 95% of that revenue. I don't get it, your proposal is that you want to be able to buy albums for less the usual price of $15-20 or whatever? Why would an artist want to do that? Or is the idea basically a tipping function where you "buy" an album for $5, but don't get anything in return?
nosioptar 2y ago
Qobuz allows purchasing some music (flac). Qobuz does have its share of problems. I often found its catalog lacking. Its plagued with edited versions of albums that aren't labelled as edited. It lacks filters. I'd like to filter out singles and just browse albums.

gruez 2y ago

>I wish Spotify would let me "upgrade" individual albums to purchases. Like I'd still pay for my monthly sub, but if I particularly like a track or artist, I could buy that album for a discounted price (like $5, ideally) and the artist would get like 95% of that revenue. I don't get it, your proposal is that you want to be able to buy albums for less the usual price of $15-20 or whatever? Why would an artist want to do that? Or is the idea basically a tipping function where you "buy" an album for $5, but don't get anything in return?

nosioptar 2y ago

Qobuz allows purchasing some music (flac). Qobuz does have its share of problems. I often found its catalog lacking. Its plagued with edited versions of albums that aren't labelled as edited. It lacks filters. I'd like to filter out singles and just browse albums.