The streaming era of music production

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I used to have Distrokid too. TBH, it’s pretty cheap and very convenient. But I stopped it anyway because I realized I didn’t care about the listeners that use the big streaming platforms.

I may be wrong but I imagine they’re mostly casual listeners. I imagine Bandcamp tends to appeal to people that really like music. Not just people that enjoy music as much as their wallpaper.

I’m not a pro, so I don’t care about the economics and all. But I do appreciate some feedback from genuine music lovers. Being drowned in automatic playlists for the casual listener is just not something that feels good to me.

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You share my thoughts on the topic.

I do feel better for not supporting spotfiy any more.

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What? Totally not true. Or I guess define “less efficient”, I guess everything was less efficient before the internet but record labels have ALWAYS been very adept at screwing artists over. Thats their whole business model, really.

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As I said they still did it, but not on such a scale and with such ease as today.

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It’s just different innit. Artists screwed in both eras.
In the past you had no choice but to be screwed.
These days, there are many more options to retain creative control of your output and how it is released and distributed. But the returns, even if moderately successful are still very poor, so you can see why the big platforms suck people in, in the hope it will increase exposure.

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Yup, in the 90’s out of 4 deals I had only got paid for 2.

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there might be a more current thread than this to post but I couldn’t find it :upside_down_face:

last week I decided to ditch streaming services altogether n go 100% bandcamp. feels great, fuk those cnts.

searching for new stuff on bandcamp & buying albums I genuinely like feels more like crate digging back in the 90s. I’m happy, n it feels good to be paying artists who make quality tunes.

also, my growing collection looks beautiful, all top tier sh1t, as opposed to streamers where I have to wade thru the worst kind of tripe daily to find the stuff I like.

anyone else doing something like this?

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i am. i setup a plex server at home. and am now “streaming” the music i bought via plexamp to my smartphone and other devices. very convenient. Hi-Defintion codecs, smart playlists and other goodies which some streaming services lack. of course it’s more work and more expensive. but that’s worth it for me

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sounds like a nice setup. I’ll have to look in to plex.

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Same, all FLAC.

Are there any 3rd party options for Plex playlist creation? I’m not expecting Spotify level algorithmic options but curious if there’s anything better than default.

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Here is an interesting but not a very informative article on the curated playlists.

I found this part sort of a chicken and egg situation…

“We look at where people are listening to this music, what it fits with, what kind of neighboring tracks are people listening to…”

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Just managed to get Plex remote access to work. Sitting at my job on a cattlefarm on an island north of Stockholm streaming rare black metal demos from my home 50 km away. Just quit all my other services. This feels sci-fi.

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