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Ghost artists on Spotify

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556 points greenie_beans | 2 comments | 19 Dec 24 14:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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grujicd ◴[19 Dec 24 23:18 UTC] No.42466747[source]▶
Well I care and I would rather use model where my subsbcription gets distributed only to musicians I listen to. As a side effect, all these ghost/fake frauds for milking money would cease to exist.
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1. pavel_lishin ◴[19 Dec 24 23:24 UTC] No.42466797[source]▶
Same. I buy mp3s from bandcamp, and upload them to (currently) Google Music (or whatever they decided to call it now), after backing them up to my hard drive.
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2. modzu ◴[20 Dec 24 00:32 UTC] No.42467204[source]▶
recently discovered plexamp which is a pretty cool way to stream a local library to the app