Spotify - high quality, legal, free, streaming music.

[Madiel]

It is worth mentioning at this point that the help and support systems for Spotify are a steaming pile of dog's turds. The kind of website that happily tells you a whole bunch of really basic, surface-level information that most intelligent people could work out for themselves, but heaven help you if you have a problem not answered by the FAQs.

[otterhouse]

Thanks, looks like it's paid per track and that some companies block the large tracks for that reason...!
Still finding new things on spotify also obscure labels and artists I lost track of...

Rolf
http://classical-lp.blogspot.nl

[mn dave]

My new year will include more Spotify and fewer album purchases.

That's the plan anyway.  0:)

[MN Dave]

My new year will include more Spotify and fewer album purchases.

That's the plan anyway.  0:)

Hahahaha!!!

[well, I'm back on Spotify this month, anyway.]

[Omicron9]

Not so fantastic for artists. 

https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/how-spotify-and-pandora-are-hurting-artists/

Quote:
"Spotify pays out $.006 to $.0084 cents per stream. How much an artist makes will of course depend on their success, but if you're not a top-tier act with a huge draw, you're not making much. After all is said and done, the average artist needs around 150 Spotify streams to equal the payout of a single 99-cent download. Why so low? Because 75 percent of Spotify's 60 million members listen for free, and free doesn't pay very well. Spotify made just $90 million from its ad-based service last year, compared to a whopping $897 million from its much smaller pool of paid subscribers."

Look closely at those royalty figures.  It's thousandths of a cent.  No wonder more and more artists are boycotting allowing their work to be available on Spotify.

[Madiel]

There are lots of online platforms to get high quality, legal, free, streaming music. You can easily download any kind of music according to your requirements.

Streaming and downloading are fundamentally different things.

[Karl Henning]

Apple Music may finally have the muscle to knock off Spotify

[Madiel]

Apple Music may finally have the muscle to knock off Spotify

Given Apple's complete inability to properly synchronise podcasts between my phone and my computer, I'm not excited. They don't deserve any more management of my media than they already have.