#anti-spotify

[suchsitestoshow]

Cool people of tumblr lend me your music recs

I am looking for new music to fill my mp3 player with so tell me your favorite artists or songs! If I like them (and/or remember to post) I'll comment with a short blurb of what I thought!

[majimemegoro]

oh spotify is down? aw that sucks. that must be so hard oh my gosh. yeah no I only just heard about it, yeah i was busy listening to the low-quality mp3s that ive been collecting on my computer since 2015. but yeah that must be so hard that spotify is down im so sory for you

[rainbowfairytale1]

I love that some of this site pretended to be outraged over Spotify's open support of ICE and Ai usage, yet they release Spotify wrapped and everyone is back to using it.

[thewomancallednova]

hey since everyone is doing these "send me a number between 1-50 and I'll tell you what that is on my spotify wrapped" things, send me a number between 1-50 and I'll tell you a random song on my vlc app on my phone which i feed with delicious mp3s that i bought from bandcamp friday where all the money goes to the artists

[stilljustvasha]

Anyone have any suggestions for a music streaming app that's not Spotify that can also play local files? Spotify keeps being increasingly shady and Ive been thinking of switching for awhile, but I have a bunch of songs that aren't in most streaming libraries (rarities, bins tracks, etc) that id still like to be able to play

People's recommendations online seem to be Apple Music, which doesn't feel like that much of a step-up politically? Also seeing a lot of "pay for ANOTHER app to access both libraries at once" which doesn't really feel like solving the problem

[dithorba]

IDK who needs to hear this, but learning to "acquire" your favorite music is the easiest thing in the world to do.

I personally recommend Musicolet for your MP3 player app.

There are way too many of you directly giving Spotify your money, and probably even more giving them your data for ads.

Spotify doesn't pay its artists shit.

Spotify is using AI, and I can only imagine the energy requirements going forward with how people use it and the size of Spotify's user base.

Spotify tacitly supports Israel with its removal of Palestinian music, artists, and general awareness of the Palestinian plight.

And no YouTube music isn't much better.

Learn to get your music another method. There are plenty of free programs that track your listening habits. May not be as pretty looking your yearly wrapped, but you don't really need it.

[lesbo-prime]

chat please help. i tried to install wacup (a music player that's similar to winamp) and for some reason it just didnt it open after it was finished downloading?? if anyone knows what to do it would be greatly appreciated :((

[takenews-blog1]

To fix SoundCloud, it must become the anti-Spotify

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To fix SoundCloud, it must become the anti-Spotify

Startups die by suicide, not competitors. It wasn’t that anybody was stealing SoundCloud’s underground rappers, bed room remixers and storage bands. SoundCloud stumbled as a result of it uncared for these hardcore loyalists because it wrongly strove to usurp Spotify because the streaming residence of music’s superstars.

However 4 months in the past, after shedding 40 % of its workers, SoundCloud scored a do-or-die funding of $169.5 million that saved the corporate and introduced in a brand new CEO. Now the query is whether or not SoundCloud can get again within the groove. I sounded the alarm about SoundCloud’s mishandled headcount cuts, misguided route and morale issues, so it feels essential to lend some strategies alongside the criticism.

SoundCloud has one thing nobody else does: the world’s largest archive of user-uploaded music and audio — round 120 million tracks. And in order that have to be the middle of the service.

It as soon as was, however slightly than doubling down on impartial creators, serving to them monetize with adverts and commerce and promoting subscriptions to enhanced ad-free entry, SoundCloud wasted years chasing the foremost file labels in hopes of constructing a Spotify competitor stuffed with the preferred music. Lastly in mid-2016 it launched the $9.99 SoundCloud Go+ subscription with ad-free entry to mainstream music and indie stuff, however it was already years behind Spotify and Apple Music.

Within the meantime, the distraction led to terribly gradual progress on scaling up promoting, each by way of the quantity of adverts on the websites and the impartial artists who might get a income share. Advertisements weren’t an enormous a part of SoundCloud, so many customers don’t really feel it’s value paying to eliminate them. Creators strayed to YouTube and Patreon, investing their consideration and driving their viewers to the place they may earn cash. And spurious take-downs of creators’ music that they already paid SoundCloud to host additional burned the corporate’s cred with its core constituents.

It’s on this man, SoundCloud’s new CEO Kerry Trainor, to proper the ship. I’ve met him, and he’s cooler than he appears.  (Photograph by Todd Williamson/WireImage)

Fortunately, SoundCloud has now booted its former administration crew, changing Alex Ljung with former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor. That offers SoundCloud a chance to realign its technique with the creators who made it distinctive within the first place. Right here’s what we predict it must do:

SoundCloud won’t ever be the No. 1 pop music streaming platform, and it wants to simply accept that. It bought began on subscriptions too late and doesn’t have the trade buy-in the best way Spotify does from taking the labels on as buyers, nor the advice knowledge Spotify bought from buying Echo Nest, nor the large system set up base or warfare chest to leverage like Apple Music, nor huge ad-supported viewers like 1 billion-user YouTube.

So as an alternative of attempting to compete with the large canine straight, SoundCloud ought to invade from downstream. Somewhat than advertising its $10 SoundCloud Go+ subscription to informal music followers, it ought to think about locking in hardcore listeners who love its indie stuff by way of its free tier or $5 SoundCloud Go subscription only for user-generated content material. Then it ought to upsell them to the $10 plan by touting the comfort of listening to all the pieces in a single place, slightly than paying $10 a month only for mainstream music elsewhere. The $5 plan ought to be the main focus, and the $10 plan ought to be the bonus.

[Replace 12/14/17: SoundCloud has simply redesigned its residence display screen to characteristic personalised playlists that may spotlight the very best of its distinctive catalog.

SoundCloud buddied as much as the foremost labels on the expense of the DJs who fueled its ascent. The authorized gray space of unofficial remixes and DJ units are what made SoundCloud indispensable, however are additionally what bought criminalized and typically booted off the platform after its label offers. SoundCloud wants to determine how you can settle the copyright payouts on this type of content material so it will probably keep up on the platform. Whether or not which means creating its personal rights disbursement expertise, partnering with a supplier of this payout distribution tech like Dubset or outright buying it, SoundCloud have to be a secure residence for this content material you possibly can’t discover wherever else. In any other case, SoundCloud isn’t particular.

Everybody is aware of streaming music platforms solely pay out a fraction of a cent per pay attention. That may add as much as tens of millions a 12 months in the event you’re Taylor Swift, however typically isn’t sufficient to help the livelihood of smaller area of interest artists. However irrespective of how large or small, nearly each artist has a proportion of listeners who’re die-hard followers, prepared to pay way over they’d earn a creator in streaming royalties or ad-revenue share.

That’s why artists of every type have turned to subscription patronage platforms like Patreon, the place you don’t want tens of millions of followers, only a few thousand paying a buck a month. YouTube, Apple Music and even Spotify have did not go deep in helping artists with direct commerce. YouTube is testing Patreon-esque Sponsorships, and Spotify gives some tiny merchandise and live performance ticket choices on artist profiles.

BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 27: Followers react to The Wailers performing stay onstage on the 2016 Byron Bay Bluesfest on March 27, 2016 in Byron Bay, Australia. (Photograph by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Photographs)

However SoundCloud has a large alternative right here as a result of it is aware of its artists can’t maintain themselves on royalties, and the kind of listeners on SoundCloud are critical music aficionados. SoundCloud ought to present daring choices for artists to promote merch and tickets and train them how you can use knowledge to create items their followers wish to purchase.

That additionally means pushing artists towards new income streams like providing unique experiences. Assist artists promote telephone calls, meet-and-greets, signed memorabilia, webcam footage of studio classes, unique video streams and extra. And at last, present a channel for artists to speak straight with their prime listeners in additional intimate methods than electronic mail blasts and Twitter broadcasts.

SoundCloud ought to be the fashionable fan membership. In an period the place you don’t “personal” music anymore, the app’s viewers of early adopting hipsters is perhaps keen to indicate their allegiance to their favourite artists with their wallets, not simply their ears. And that’s good for everybody.

Let Spotify and Apple Music be the impersonal place for superstars who don’t care about you. SoundCloud might give listeners a deeper expertise, artists a much bigger paycheck and itself a profitable nook of the in any other case overcrowded music area. So, Kerry, what are you gonna do?