Well, "should people take their entire albums off spotify if they can" needs to be parsed. Should they for the benefit of humanity's musical cultural heritage, or should they from their own economic perspective. For the latter, obv someone like Thom Yorke who is a famous dude who ppl will pay to make music will have a different answer than someone you've never heard of.
― Mordy , Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
The answer seems to be a return to this communal professionalism.
Crowdfunding goes hand in hand with that idea.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
the odd future guys certainly benefited from just throwing up their stuff on tumblr for free, but if I was Tyler I'd sure as fuck reduce my spotify presence to about 3 songs per album now.
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
I see what you're saying croup and yeah artists with the recognition and fanbase to do it (basically the ones already doing it) should definitely not make the full albums available on spotify if they want to sell anything
― anonanon, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Mordy's thoughts on the larger historical trends in evidence here mirror my own
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
it is abundantly clear that the media market of the 20th century was a huge aberration in general
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
I have narrowed the peak of the music industry to the moment I paid $18 at FYE for the PJ's soundtrack to get the one raphael saadiq song I liked, it's been all downhill for them ever since
― anonanon, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
lol
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
well tbf before recordings there was sheet music, so I'd extend the "temporary burst" of profitability back a little further. But yeah it's basically the age of mechanical reproduction we're talking about, and the age of digital reproduction has now subsumed it.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
i don't think the era of sheet music is comparable in scale to the recent burst of profitability
― Mordy , Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
it would be hard to find an appropriate way to compare the industries, and you're probably right, but tin pan alley hits could sell millions of copies of sheet music. It was possible to make a living from music publishing alone for at least a brief period of history.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
the reason I called it a "fire sale" is that the only reason to make the physical purchase of music needless, to wholly trade real dollars for digital pennies, is if you've given up on selling physical music.
But "trade real dollars for digital pennies" strikes me as hyperbole. The ratio is not 100:1 or 50:1 as "trade real dollars for digital pennies" suggests. If the basic *price per album*, at the current Spotify payment rate, is about $2.25, then what is the real comparative ratio of profit between a CD sale and 450 song streams?
― timellison, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
it turned out that people were the worst record company of all
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
If the basic *price per album*, at the current Spotify payment rate, is about $2.25,
price is computed at the track level, not the album level, yr basic assumptions are wrong
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
lol tim i love that you're sweating the verity of shorthand metaphors and ignoring literally everything else
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
and see damon k's posted quote upthread, the algorithms/rates are proprietary and "secret" and generally work out to be even less than the agreed upon basic rate
are mog's royalties higher than spotify's?
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
This was based on an average album comparison I made above.
I don't mean to ignore anything. I think the rates are probably too low. I just don't by how much.
― timellison, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
I just don't KNOW by how much.
― timellison, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Around the time the RIAA was suing everybody, people still sympathized with musicians, but now folks are outright saying "FUCK YOU, MUSICIAN" to people in bands who actually want to be paid for what they record.
otm
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
the riaa and Lars tbf
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
/Around the time the RIAA was suing everybody, people still sympathized with musicians, but now folks are outright saying "FUCK YOU, MUSICIAN" to people in bands who actually want to be paid for what they record./otm
They also want people to listen to what they record and it's not clear to me that they will if they have to pay standard CD prices.
As a musician myself, I've always thought the only way I could make music I wanted to make was to give up on the idea of earning enough to support myself.
I don't think it's just people liking free stuff. I think Spotify and the like may simply be revealing that we as a culture don't really value music as highly as musicians think we should.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 18 October 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Nah that's bulllshit. The value went down because it became easier to get cheaper or free, not because "we as a culture" blah blah. If we could suddenly 3d print food in our homes at no cost and stopped paying for food it wouldn't be because we don't value food "as a culture"
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 October 2013 04:48 (ten years ago) link
you're both right though, before the internet artists had all the leverage, like: you can hear two of my songs but if you even want to know what 80% of my album even sounds like, pay $15-$20
but now that effective BATNA to each album purchase decision is a $0 torrent that allows you to hear the whole thing anyway, well
― anonanon, Friday, 18 October 2013 05:34 (ten years ago) link
grrr i'm mad at spotify right now
― fresh (crüt), Monday, 21 October 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
are you shaking your fist at the cloud
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 October 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
yes
― fresh (crüt), Monday, 21 October 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
if you are mad at spotify, you aremad at the FUTURE. I prescribe OPTIMISM.
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 21 October 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
They pulled all the spotify techs to work on ACA site...now when you click on Lou Rawls you mite get Lou Gramm
― Neanderthal, Monday, 21 October 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
Spotify should coordinate healthcare for musicians
― Moodles, Monday, 21 October 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
Free healthcare but your doctor interrupts the session every 5 minutes to show you an ad for Kraft Mac and Cheese.
― three times a LAD (seandalai), Monday, 21 October 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
ok i'm done being mad at spotify
― fresh (crüt), Monday, 21 October 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
did you pass your physical?
― Moodles, Monday, 21 October 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
did you know there's a Labradford track that sounds a lot like a Korla Pandit tune? I learned this from spending way too much time on spotify.
― fresh (crüt), Monday, 21 October 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
dude i am on so much spotify right now think I took too much
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 21 October 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
I unchecked the boxes under Preferences for it to load everything I have on my hard drive every time I open the program. Program starts much easier now.
― timellison, Thursday, 24 October 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
so spotify haters (or canadians without spotify) who didnt like the webpage that used youtube can now join users on the other 2 if they have deezer.http://gigaom.com/2013/11/25/soundrop-the-turntable-fm-of-spotify-apps-is-now-also-on-deezer/
http://soundrop.fm/press/2013/11/25/soundrop-launches-in-deezer/
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/25/once-a-turntable-rival-popular-spotify-app-soundrop-launches-on-deezer-as-co-founder-steps-down-as-ceo/
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
To get Soundrop, simply add it in Deezer’s App Studio, or visit this address directly http://www.deezer.com/app/soundrop. Soundrop is available in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Turkish, Thai and Dutch.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/deezer-will-launch-in-the-u-s-next-year-and-fight-head-to-head-with-music-streaming-giants/
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
How does the catalog of deeper compare with spotify?
― Gotta take it slow in your fast ride (calstars), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
no idea as ive never used it but it seems its in a LOT of countries and is popular in france and germany. The UK/Aus/Canada/Ireland gets it
Here's a list of 180+ countries that have ithttp://developers.deezer.com/guidelines/countries
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Led Zep. Merry Christmas...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/business/media/spotify-said-to-secure-exclusive-deal-with-led-zeppelin.html?_r=0
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
beatles and ac/dc the last huge ones left
― balls, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Joanna Newsom
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
Only the first two Led Zep albums are available so far.
― gaze not into the navel (onimo), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
xpost jim o'rourke too. isn't drag city not on it at all?
― markers, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
tool, obviously. still not on itunes
isn't drag city not on it at all?
That's correct, AFAIK.
― Noblesse J. Blige (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
nor thrill jockey
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link