I discovered Resonate today, immediately became a member and have been discovering lovely new music all evening.
I quit Spotify a few years ago when I realized that most artists get pennies while a few really big names get enormous payouts.
Seeing an artist and user owned streaming service, completely open sourced under GPL 3.0 and with a thriving community where everything is developed in the open – it really made my day.
Yes, their catalogue is still tiny compared to every other streaming service, but the music I have listened to today is of really good quality. I will still listen to and buy music from other services like Bandcamp, but I became a member of Resonate also because I really want such a service to exist and thrive!
What do you think?
It’s not open source afaik. I couldn’t find a link to a git repository on their website, had to go on twitter to find a tweet where they had a link. Apparently they open source some of their tools only. https://resonate.github.io/
PS. Just want to point out the acc joined 3h ago and this is their first post, 1h ago.
Sorry, should have mentioned that this was my first post on here. Have been lurking for a while and got so exited about Resonate that I had to sign up to post about it :)
maybe https://github.com/resonatecoop
Cool
For the first few listens of a track, the price remains less than a 1 cent in total for the listener. Yet on Resonate, listening to a song only a few times multiplies the artist’s earnings by three to four times compared to the biggest corporate services.
By your sixth listen of a track, its price to play is still less than 10 cents a stream, but the artist is being paid twenty times what they’d be paid on a corporate streaming platform.
Aah there it is. Where did you find it?
click listen at the top of the page and it changes to a .coop website. I suppose the other one is like a landing page. Any way I’m happy this is for real :p
Thank you for recommending this! This is exactly the kind of thing I hope to find on Lemmy.’ I wanted to figure out how much it costs because it’s a little unclear even on the pricing page. But I see it looks like to pay as you stream up to $11.20.
I will say, I love this way of thinking about their catalog:
the explorer
“I want something new every day.”
10€ ($11.20) at Resonate provides around 4 hours of listening a day – 30 days a month – to wander our catalog.
How can you say a catalog is limited when you get 4 hours of new music a day?? It’s a good way of thinking of it.
It doesn’t appear to be FOSS, but they do say under “what’s next”:
How can we support and collaborate with each other, not just between artists and listeners, but across like-minded platforms?
