Ancestors

Toot

Written by Roberta Fidora on 2024-12-18 at 22:27

A ghost story for Christmas. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/ #Streaming #Music #LongReads #Musicians

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Descendants

Written by Roberta Fidora on 2024-12-19 at 22:40

"Our single best hope is a cooperative streaming platform owned by labels and musicians. Let’s reclaim music from the technocrats. They have not proven themselves worthy of our trust."

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

[#]Music #Streaming #TedGioia #Musicians #Musodon

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Written by Dec.tar.gz on 2024-12-19 at 13:53

@RobertaFidora

A truly depressing read.

"It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process."

And then the next sentence in the article is about AI.

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Written by Roberta Fidora on 2024-12-19 at 17:24

@dec23k It doesn’t look good, does it? I’m hopeful though that the mixed response to their Wrapped campaign might be the start of people craving context again and not just accepting whatever’s served up.

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Written by neurocturnal on 2024-12-20 at 02:41

@RobertaFidora this is depressing. The platform always had problems but that level of enshittification is heavy 🤢🤑

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