Spotify to launch 'Hi-Fi' CD Quality Tier.

[Timcognito]

Jeez -- a guy shows a little initiative and look at the thanks he gets!

Trying to figure out what law he broke. Many bands have factious names, write crappy songs, use samplings and have them played on streaming services. Seems like if Spotify carried it, the creator provided it and people played it he should get paid. At the rate they pay, to get over $100K/mo the songs couldn't have been that bad.

 

[mhardy6647]

I am thinking that all of this should bring the resurgence of "bands" like Daft Punk, Gorillaz, Milli Vanilli, The Archies, and The Monkees.
OK, Daft Punk was (is?) kind of real.

tapes of questionable repute by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

 

[mhardy6647]

Trying to figure out what law he broke. Many bands have factious names, write crappy songs, use samplings and have them played on streaming services. Seems like if Spotify carried it, the creator provided it and people played it he should get paid. At the rate they pay, to get over $100K/mo the songs couldn't have been that bad.

Indeed. Seems to me he (they) exploited a rather pathetic loophole on the streamers' part. Their paying for plays of imaginary songs by imaginary bands being streamed by imaginary users seems to be more the streaming service's issue.

 

[Timcognito]

Indeed. Seems to me he (they) exploited a rather pathetic loophole on the streamers' part. Their paying for plays of imaginary songs by imaginary bands being streamed by imaginary users seems to be more the streaming service's issue.

Thanks I didn't read the article, my bad.

 

[Jmudrick]

I am thinking that all of this should bring the resurgence of "bands" like Daft Punk, Gorillaz, Milli Vanilli, The Archies, and The Monkees.
OK, Daft Punk was (is?) kind of real.

tapes of questionable repute by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

Monkees certainly became a real band rather quickly.

 

[mhardy6647]

Monkees certainly became a real band rather quickly.

Not as quickly as they (or at least Mike Nesmith) would have liked.

 

[Jmudrick]

Not as quickly as they (or at least Mike Nesmith) would have liked.

Sure. As would have Peter Tork, he was just less confrontational. But you know how long it was between release of the first album (with studio musicians) and the first sessions for the third (recorded by themselves)? Four months. And they'd started touring two months after release of the first LP. Things happened fast in those days. Loved Papa Nez.

 

[Tell]

In the end I personally don't care if people are stupidly greedy enough to use bots to stream their own music, what I care about though is that I get these tracks by random through Spotify's radio. That music is boring, bland and way to short to be of ANY use. I really want to report those artists just for that or at least have some function to ignore them.

 

[Dumdum]

Trying to figure out what law he broke. Many bands have factious names, write crappy songs, use samplings and have them played on streaming services. Seems like if Spotify carried it, the creator provided it and people played it he should get paid. At the rate they pay, to get over $100K/mo the songs couldn't have been that bad.

‘People’ didn’t stream it for the most part… he and his army of computers did… that’s where he came unstuck