We may have to move on from Spotify
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missizzyHonestly, ever since 8tracks went under I've been worried. Spotify now being the only big streaming service where you can make and share playlists was never a good situation. And the ads were a problem. I even contemplated switching to Premium to be rid of them. But that probably ended yesterday, when they started forces oodles of ads after every single song in what is most likely an attempt to bully us into paying without admitting they want to be a pay-only service, since actually becoming pay-only might cause high-profile people to start searching for alternative for sharing music with their fans. I do not pay bullies. The only reason I haven't deleted it already is because I'm kind of attached to the Critical Role playlists.
The thing that concerns me more is what happens to all the fanmixes that moved there. You can't really just upload songs to file sharing services the way you used to be able to, and that's never coming back. But where can they stream without ads ruining the effect? YouTube might not ruin it entirely, the way Spotify's current setup now does, but they're getting worse. Still, I think there will be something in time. There always is in fandom.
Meanwhile, if Spotify doesn't make a really quick U-Turn on this, I may set to work this weekend recreating the Critical Role playlists on YouTube, if only as a stopgap measure. Critters have done crazier things than that, right?
ETA: They're now claiming it's a bug. It may have been. Though that we assumed otherwise still says a lot.
The thing that concerns me more is what happens to all the fanmixes that moved there. You can't really just upload songs to file sharing services the way you used to be able to, and that's never coming back. But where can they stream without ads ruining the effect? YouTube might not ruin it entirely, the way Spotify's current setup now does, but they're getting worse. Still, I think there will be something in time. There always is in fandom.
Meanwhile, if Spotify doesn't make a really quick U-Turn on this, I may set to work this weekend recreating the Critical Role playlists on YouTube, if only as a stopgap measure. Critters have done crazier things than that, right?
ETA: They're now claiming it's a bug. It may have been. Though that we assumed otherwise still says a lot.
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Date: 2021-07-30 05:40 am (UTC)Hosting content that isn't actually yours legally to host on Dreamwidth actually goes against their TOS, which also means risking an account suspension. :/
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Date: 2021-07-30 05:44 am (UTC)There's always Youtube for sharing playlists, which is what a lot of people are using now (though again, a lot of songs are geoblocked/geolocked, and chances are the 20 songs you include - 10-15 of them can't be listened to by people in other countries), and there's always Winamp and EverTracks etc. for privately owned and downloaded music that isn't intended to be shared.
I do pay for Spotify, but again, 8tracks meant very little to a lot of people here, because of how badly they treated their global audience on a repeated basis. It was almost malicious towards the end. But I suspect a big part of that was that 8tracks couldn't survive paying song royalties in every country etc. because it's all done through different distributors and it gets complicated really fast.
As it is, Spotify can barely afford to pay their artists any decent amount. Which is really sad for a lot of those music artists. 8tracks was never professional enough to handle it.
But there's going to be no way to share music that isn't yours eventually, without paying for it. All music can be pirated - it's the sharing that kills you if you want to do it for free. :/
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Date: 2021-07-30 09:34 pm (UTC)