"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

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• FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So if Spotify pays artists so poorly (I’m not claiming they don’t), then why do those artists stay on the platform? I have no qualms about using my paid Spotify account. I don’t really care how much they pay artists as long as they are paying artists.

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  • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Critical mass. They remove their songs from Spotify and the likelyhood of people changing platforms to keep listening to them is next to zero.

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  • JimmyDean@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In a past thread on this topic, I’ve seen a few indie artists say that they benefit because Spotify amplifies their audience. They make crap on the streams, but a larger audience base is worth the trade-off since they’ll be able to sell more concert tickets and merchandise.

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    • tim1996@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Honestly spotify should really let small artists make their pages more interesting.

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    • Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spotify has definitely helped me to discover new artists, but then I mostly listen to that artist on Spotify (Mostly because I’m not in their country.)

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    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      One of my arguments is that inde artists and creators are as responsible for the enshitification of the internet as companies like google and Facebook are. They both are invested in turning making the internet into some global bazaar instead of a library

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  • Neve8028@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No streaming platforms pay well. Are you saying that artists should pull out of all streaming services? How would new artists get their music to a general audience?

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    • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m saying artists seem to be doing fine. If they don’t like how much Spotify is paying them, they are welcome to pull their music from the platform and put it in other places.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Arr.

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• Willowtree2222@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have around 5000 songs in a playlist. Anyone got an idea of how to migrate them to just local .mp3 files or something?

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  • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any sailor worth his salt needs spend a few seasons earning his sea legs before he can begin to call to claim any understanding of the sea.

    AKA, There is no easy way. It will lots of time and manual labor to find all the individual files in your Playlist.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you have a shit ton of time and don’t care about mediocre to bad quality for the size, you could do the straightforward 80s way, play and record on “tape” (which can be digital files nowadays).

    If you have any way of exporting to a list, then you might have some luck with some console wizardry and yt-dlp. Essentially “search” each title on youtube and auto-download the audio from the first result and try to fill in the track and artist fields automatically.

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• Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Soon it will be pay for Spotify on the same tier but also hear ad’s.

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  • Baketime@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Step 1 - Introduce a new paid tier that's cheaper, has all the premium features, but still has ads

    Step 2 - wait a few months

    Step 3 - increase all prices so that new "cheaper" tier is the same price as the current premium tier

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    • ojmcelderry@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This sounds like the Netflix model.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why should they not make more money out of you? You already sold yourself when you signed up.

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  • Rognaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And they up the prices and you just better shut up about it. Talkin bout you fucking YouTube…

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• HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I never understand this. Is someone paying for spotify to push their music on people? Is this like the new mlm scheme where you have to pay spotify first so the algorithm prioritizes your songs so you can earn that same money back?

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  • TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The screenshot literally says “sponsored recommendation”. Not sure how much more clear it can be that somebody paid money for that.

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    • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I ment to say I don’t get why anyone would pay for that.

      Artist are trying to get paid for people listening on Spotify, not the other way around.

      I guess It’s like advertising your product on amazon so people buy from you not others, but somehow it feels stupid when you think about it in the context of a music streaming service.

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• zeekzag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still pay for premium because it allows me to intercept their high quality 320kbps ogg streams.

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  • ojmcelderry@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting 🤔 “intercept” as in to rip them?

    And suppose a friend asked me how you do that. What should I tell them?

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    • zeekzag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Look up soggfy or zotify. Can’t link them here for obvious reasons.

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• Martytix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tbh the times that these come up it’s usually music that is right in my wheelhouse. I’ve found lots of new music through the recommendations of Spotify.

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• Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s annoying. But I think there’s a misconception of “if you pay for something it must be ad free.” There’s goals to get to X revenue. It’s totally reasonable to have that way to get to X to be a blend of subscription fees and some forms of promotional content. Also, I am curious if the record labels have any agreements in place that require Spotify to do occasional promotions to both premium and non premium users in order for the service to have access to their music. I’d be curious to see what the “why am I seeing this?” link says.

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• LastSprinkles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use Google Play Music and it’s been pretty good. Haven’t noticed any shenanigans, no ads or anything of the sort.

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  • stochasticity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it not YouTube music now?

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  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boy do I actually miss that service. It just worked. And then they killed it.

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  • books@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used that service but they jacked the price up so I quit and got Spotify

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• melonpunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I cancelled my sub after I kept getting bombarded by some Michelle Obama podcast/book thing. Popped up so many times over the course of a week that I just yolo’d out and went with Youtube Premium (which gives Youtube Music as part of the deal).

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  • ineedaunion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pirate all the things. No love for any corporation.

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• LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just been downloading all songs off Spotify to have them locally and find another way of expanding my library forwards, I’ve had enough of Spotify.

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• zipzoopaboop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They specify and free music, and fail to mention ads in podcasts

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Podcadsts.

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• Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dude right though!! Those are the worst!! And they only seem to pop up when I’m tossing a playlist on right as I start driving, worst fkn thing!!

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• orl0pl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Music ads are nonsense

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• Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow, I’m not gonna move to another subscription music app. If I see this, I’m back to mp3s and maybe something selfhosted.

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  • scarrtt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    PlexAmp and Plex are a good option

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  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been downloading my spotify playlists as .mp3 so when they start pulling stunts like this I can simply just move elsewhere and lose nothing

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    • Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you using any tools to automate this?

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• littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Two things. First, the user didn’t ask for the suggestion (it popped up). Second, the contents of the suggestion are “sponsored” (paid for by an advertiser and not necessarily related to the user’s interest). User-friendly suggestions should be gathered in a single space that the user chooses to interact with (like a suggestions page) and contain only relevant information (uninfluenced by paid-for sponsorships).

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    • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, I see the distinction now. True. There is already a suggestion feature in the “liked songs” playlist where you can have Spotify give your a suggested song every third song. So the pop-up is just a nuisance. I see now.

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• dipshit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because the dollars must flow

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• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Losers born every minute. Lol

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