Wow, and they didn't even get into the seperate streaming numbers.
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Devils advocate moment... If people keep listening (or sort of listening) and they are OK with music that seems to lack any soul, is it not just giving the audience what they want and deserve?
Devils concierge moment... What a bunch of shitbags.
An artificial effect is not the same as a natural cause.
Sure, but can you explain what you mean by that in this context?
Just because people consume music slop, does not mean that that is a natural demand (given the supply is explicitly artificial, so certainly there's an economic incentive to generate demand), or something they deserve to consume or have to be given to consume (you shit every day; does not imply you want shit).
Yeah, I suppose, in a closed system that might he true.
But this isnt a closed system.
Bandcamp, for example is rife with wonderful small scale artists. There are local music scenes. There are loads of ways of choosing to stream music.
The thing is that people choose to listen to Spotify despite this. And that is a choice.
We have to be careful when talking about things when we start suggesting that people are not smart enough, or motivated enough to know what they want.
Demand is not generated here, but fulfilled. People just want background music. The properties of that music, and its artistic integrity, isnt a factor in that decision, so it is a demand based upon other properties... Brand recognition, user experience and ubiquity.
Again, I'm not defending this, and it isnt something that appeals to me, but it is easier to understand how these revelations will probably not make much of an impact of spotifys business model.
Never had a compliant with Apple Music, has a decent Android client with Auto support too.
Yeah, I’m looking to switch from iPhone to Pixel soon, but I’ll be keeping my AM sub. Had it since the day it launched, and it’s been great.
Part of it too for me is that they've given me the student price for 6 years after I left school lmao
Have known this for years, just look at any sleep or ambient playlist
So happy I switched to Tidal long ago because the pathetic music stream quality it has. I made me had headaches , literally. For the ones who don't know Best quality audio streaming are Tidal and Apple music . YouTube music is pure crap quality as Spotify.
That it all-around sucks? That I've been telling people this since it's creation? That nobody fucking listens to me? Or that this preview picture looks like ET and Titanic had a mash-up. Or all of the above.
It's all of the above, duh.
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