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Ghost artists on Spotify

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556 points greenie_beans | 14 comments | 19 Dec 24 14:12 UTC | HN request time: 1.086s | source | bottom
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timoth3y ◴[19 Dec 24 23:01 UTC] No.42466636[source]▶
The entire history of the music business is one of attorneys developing ever more inventive ways of screwing over musicians.

The sad thing (for artists) is that it seems like most Spotify listeners don't care.

Most of our music consumption today seems to be as a kind of background vibe rather than an appreciation of the music itself.

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1. killjoywashere ◴[19 Dec 24 23:22 UTC] No.42466782[source]▶
How much of my money am I supposed to fork over to streaming companies? Tidal, Qobuz, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, Apple. And how much work am I supposed to invest in migrating my playlists between them? I don't want to invest my time in digging through every new artist (SoundCloud?), at the same time, I occasionally find a deep rabbithole I want to go down. How do I go spelunking if the archive isn't deep and rich?
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2. piva00 ◴[20 Dec 24 00:02 UTC] No.42467056[source]▶
The same way as it was always done: through effort.

Before you'd need to visit different record stores, hitting one every few days to check their latest in catalogue. Find the hidden boxes with low print releases, listen on a player and skip the needle around track grooves. Or have good friends recommending you stuff.

It got easier but I think we need to realise to find the signal on a sea of noise will probably require effort for a long time. Given time enough every new information discovery tool gets flooded by the noise, almost like a form of entropy.

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3. nradov ◴[20 Dec 24 00:35 UTC] No.42467226[source]▶
I thought that technology was supposed to save humans from the torture of having to put forth any effort, so that we could just lay back and have all of our wants immediately satisfied. At least that's the utopia I was promised in Wall-E.
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4. crtasm ◴[20 Dec 24 02:34 UTC] No.42467752{3}[source]▶
"We have a [record] pool?!"
5. StayTrue ◴[20 Dec 24 04:27 UTC] No.42468275[source]▶
I just migrated my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music. Cobbling together the scripts to do that (without paying a third party service) was hard.
6. Aloha ◴[20 Dec 24 04:27 UTC] No.42468281[source]▶
This is part of why I basically gave up on this and just went with SiriusXM - I like linear programming - less effort for me to engage with.
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7. sitkack ◴[20 Dec 24 04:47 UTC] No.42468363[source]▶
There are plenty of great radio stations around the world catering to all sorts of audio experiences.

Pick a random place on earth and then search for nearby radio stations.

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8. sitkack ◴[20 Dec 24 04:48 UTC] No.42468368{3}[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Pana...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Ital...

9. carlosjobim ◴[20 Dec 24 09:54 UTC] No.42469630[source]▶
Who has asked you to do anything?
10. Aloha ◴[20 Dec 24 15:27 UTC] No.42471903{3}[source]▶
Oh sure - but I like something with the ease of use from my car too.

Though thats not all, I also have a receiver feeding into an 1/2w FM modulator and providing whole house music at home.

11. internetter ◴[20 Dec 24 16:05 UTC] No.42472242{3}[source]▶
https://radio.garden/
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12. sitkack ◴[20 Dec 24 16:21 UTC] No.42472398{4}[source]▶
This is beautiful, thank you.
13. onemoresoop ◴[21 Dec 24 13:07 UTC] No.42479438{4}[source]▶
Try also an app called Radiooooooo
14. sherr ◴[21 Dec 24 18:38 UTC] No.42481322{4}[source]▶
Radio Garden's great. But I just found out that it no longer allows a UK listener to listen to overseas stations, so that means it is now much less attractive ("licensing reasons"). What a shame.