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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by hnburnsy on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:18PM (#34613856)
I wonder if the streaming services considered favoring longer songs to save on per stream fees.
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by skeeter2020 on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:55AM (#34642757)
Doesn't everyone just say "Play me one of the songs that someone else on the same CDN edge node recently listened to"? :)
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by bluepizza on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:37AM (#34691423)
It wouldn't save fees, because what Spotify does is allocate a percentage of their income to pay artists, and that's it. So whichever way this income is allocated, they are paying the same amount of money anyway.
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