Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

Trying to understand this algorithm cause migraines  

  On 12/9/2024 at 2:31 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Trying to understand this algorithm cause migraines  

 

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Someone good with tech should set up thousands of bots who stream nothing but Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and the entire Swans discography.

you are what you stream. 
 

Also, on the point about advertising revenue, it reminded me of this book I’m reading - Stealing Time. It’s all about AOL and the Time Warner merger. AOL realized very very quickly they weren’t an internet access company, rather they were an advertising company. Those guys were a bunch of psychopathic greed whores. Just the worst of the worst, you know they went home and beat their wives to assuage their feelings of insecurity. 

Spotify’s biggest sin? Its algorithms have pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music by John Harris(guardian)