• M500@lemmy.ml
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    What is the music industries proposed solution?

    I’m not paying you a dollar for a song or $10 for a complete CD. Especially if it is the way it is with movies where you don’t really own it, just a license to play it.

    I can’t think of a way in which I would pay for music outside of a Spotify like model. Even at that, I’m on my sisters family plan. If I was not, I wouldn’t subscribe.

    Maybe I’m just not the target market, maybe I’m cheap. Maybe I’m just not that into music.

    But look at the value. A CD is like 90 minutes long and costs $10-20. There are great computer games out there in that price range that also have a sound track. If I have a limited amount of money to spend, which I do, then I’m going to pay for stuff that maximizes my entertainment.

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      The only time I’d buy stuff like that is if I knew most, if not all that money is going to the band. At least since a lot of the bands I listen to are smaller.

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        Yes, this exactly. Im fine with paying $1 a song if I knew majority of the money was going to the artist and not to various greedy media conglomerates.

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        Is that even possible?

        I think there are a few bands they self produce. Fortunately one of my favorite does. At least I think they do. Radiohead.

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          Lotsa smaller ones, I know king gizzard, red vox, and Frankie and the witch fingers (my favorite bands right now) all have websites you can buy flacs from.

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      Especially if it is the way it is with movies where you don’t really own it, just a license to play it.

      it’s been 15 years since DRM vanished from online music stores, so i don’t understand why people still keep bringing this up like it’s a thing.

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        What is an online music store? I only know apple and googles.

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          never heard of itunes? bandcamp? amazon mp3?

          these stores have been around for a very long time. newer stores like qobuz specialize in lossless music.

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      I think the modality of spotify is ok, but the model could be very different. In exemple, imagine if you payed 10$ month, but instead of those being distributed across all of spotify statistically, they where divided and distrubuted to the author YOU actually listened to, on a monthly basis.

      Maybe one month you only listened to 10 songs, so 1$ for each song author that month.

      Of course, there should be a cut for the platform from that monthly fee, after all they have maintenance and administrative costs. And perhaps it should also take into account how much of a song you listened to, down to the second.

      This is not a new model, but it is not an interesting one for venture capitalist funds, because it is too egalitarian. It is up to us to create it.

      “To have a fair music market, there needs to be a fair market”.