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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by dehrmann on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:00AM (#20774420)
It's more like record labels aren't vertically integrated. Sony used to be, but piracy and the iPod made that less relevant just as streaming became viable. I'm an ex-Spotifier. The story we got was that piracy had disrupted the music industry so much it brought the majors to the bargaining table. This is completely different than the state of movies and TV shows.

Netflix back-doored and and muscled its way in, but it never had even close to a full catalog, so it had to compete with its own content. The other big difference is that we associate TV shows with their distributors (GoT was on HBO, House of Cards Netflix, Seinfeld NBC, etc.) Artists and labels? Unless you're looking at something indie like Fat Wreck Chords, nope, most people couldn't tell you who artists are signed to.

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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by dahtguy on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:34AM (#20775010)
Which is a total shame, because those labels are the best discovery engines! If you want a great source of new content, that's effectively their full time job. The distribution and content quality of Tiny Engines, Topshelf Records, Polyvinyl is so so much better than anything Spotify will try to algorithm up for me.

(typing this while rocking my Fat Wreck jacket and playing Direct Hit!)

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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by dehrmann on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:13AM (#20775176)
I can't seem to find it, but in the past year, I read an article on how cheap compilations (could have been Fat Music) were a really effective way to promote bands in that genre. Bands would talk about doing shows, and once they play the song on the compilation CD, everyone sings along.
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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by asdff on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:08AM (#20775148)
You can still look at those releases and use spotify. No one is forcing you to look at their half baked playlists. Personally, I think the user playlists are the best part of the entire service.
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