2024-12-21
I'm enjoying the fantasy that somehow this story will result in all the internal Slack threads it mentions being published verbatim. https://harpers.org/... by @lizpelly
Harper's
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake...
2024-02-13
The world listens to music, and thus I feel like it should be obvious that the collective insights from this listening also belong to the world. Every Noise at Once was a way of helping this knowledge self-organize, and giving it back.
TechCrunch
Music encyclopedia EveryNoise, which uses Spotify data, stopped updating after Spotify laid off the employee running the site in December, angering its fans
admiring your artistry and habitually listening to your output. (Pity there aren't 99 more of you to make the threshold.) Glenn Mcdonald / @glenn_mcdonald : Getting laid off sucks,...
It's sad, but not too surprising, that a corporation might not see the value of this. But it has been reassuring to me to be reminded, here and elsewhere, that some people did. A few more reminders, this morning, here: https://www.reddit.com/...
TechCrunch
Music encyclopedia EveryNoise, which uses Spotify data, stopped updating after Spotify laid off the employee running the site in December, angering its fans
admiring your artistry and habitually listening to your output. (Pity there aren't 99 more of you to make the threshold.) Glenn Mcdonald / @glenn_mcdonald : Getting laid off sucks,...
Getting laid off sucks, there's no avoiding that, and it doesn't really help to get angry about it yourself. But it's obliquely encouraging to have *other* people get angry about it on your behalf.
TechCrunch
Music encyclopedia EveryNoise, which uses Spotify data, stopped updating after Spotify laid off the employee running the site in December, angering its fans
admiring your artistry and habitually listening to your output. (Pity there aren't 99 more of you to make the threshold.) Glenn Mcdonald / @glenn_mcdonald : Getting laid off sucks,...