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Sure
If an entrepreneur goes bankrupt, is it unfair to say their failed?
Is he bankrupt? And its just funny that you kind of slam a guy as a failed musician, and now youāre trying to place the blame on others for misunderstanding you. If I donāt want to be misunderstood I tend to weigh my words.
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I think he said in a video yeah that when streaming hit his sales plummeted and being a professional musician wasnāt feasible anymore. He was basically just not popular enough to sustain his career into the era of streaming.
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He does make music for a living he just doesnāt make money as an artist. I think the dude is doing fine financially. Heās not a failed musician heās just not making as much music with a stage name attached to it.
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Well, he still plays gigs and makes scores and whatnot. Guessing he gets paid for those things. Which a professional musician does. But anyways, this is pointless and off topic.
No itās called living the American dream.
I think heās said a few times on his channel he makes a living with music.
I guess thatās increasingly topped up with product development and YouTube.
Ah, well Iām European.
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ā¦the overall problem is everywhere the same, no matter where u lookā¦
the rigged gameā¦
spotify was a great idea at first, on paper and in theoryā¦
i donāt like the idea, since i made a good living from itā¦but even given the fact, that once, it really was a great historical achievement to start to handle an āideaā also as an asset u can claim to be protected, to call ur own for personal profit, any sort of copyrights wonāt be a final answerā¦
if there would be no backcatalogs in the hands of major companies, no yesterdays greedy industry parties, there could be a fair deal for all individual artists, since the original idea of āa streamingfarmā remains a good oneā¦
until the old world falls apart finally, weāre better off with bandcampā¦at least for nowā¦
while we all still have this āelitetismā way of thinking in our genesā¦
so letās face a sad bottomlineā¦in a world where everybody wants to be special, no one is specialā¦
and to drop the best superhero quote of allā¦when batman was asked āwhatās ur superpower?ā
his answer was āā¦iām richā¦ā
nope, this story has no happy endā¦
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I think itās not unlikely.
Itās kind of amazing they collaborate in the first place. I wonder if it was triggered by the Steve Jobs reality distortion field of iTunes that it happened in the first place.
Iāve worked in music tech startups in the past and itās quite sad that the majors are so aggressive and greedy that a lot of startups get killed because they have to sign the majors to be a success, but they take such a big piece and demand so much money that lots of really cool companies become non viable as a result.
Those that do make it are often bought up by Apple / Spotify etc and shut down to get access to the talent and remove potential competition.
Modesty has been removed from the dictionnary.
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This is really not true since Spotify makes a ton of money for the major labels. The problem isnāt Spotify, streaming is merely a way to get music to consumers. The problem is that the music industry is a racket run by the big labels, and has been since the music industry was started 100 years ago or whatever. They make the contracts, they take a lions share of streaming profits.
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So have any of you started a youtube channel that just reviews and shits on other youtube channels? It just seems so obvious.
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Iāve been a spotify customer for about 4 years now. I tried other platforms but ended up back at spotify. My only advice, like all your artists that you listen to and nothing else. Add to favās the spotify Release Radar playlist and let the AI do the rest. Itāll populate all new releases and add artists that are similar to the artists you liked. Game spotify AI rather than hate it, itās about 85% accurate after several months. I occasionally get some weird random track that prob shouldnāt be in my playlist at least once per month. Almost like the AI is messing with me or trying to get me to deviate down a new genre.
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I absolutely hate the Spotify AI and am still waiting for a streaming platform with similar tools to just a huge folder of well organized mp3ās with correct metadata.
Iām not sure what bit of my post you are disagreeing with.
The hyperscaling model being high risk / high reward is by design.
Startup investors invest in 10 companies assuming 9 will fail and the 10th one will be worth so much you still make money I donāt think itās a controversial view point.
I would also assume itās uncontroversial that rights holders have more power than distribution channels provided those distribution channels donāt have some kind of monopoly power over distribution.