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Re:Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise by tough on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:58AM (#37188320)
There was this band who was making money by asking their fans to listen to their white noise playlist 24/7
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Re:Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise by Iulioh on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:12AM (#37188423)
iirc it was a blank track so literally no sound and it was supposed to be for founding a tour
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Re:Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise by skidd0 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:15PM (#37191530)
Vulfpeck's Sleepify album. The tracks were silent so you could play them in the background. They used the proceeds to fund a free tour for their fans.
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Re:Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @05:02PM (#37193160)
That cuts to how much of a mess spotify payouts are in general, where the subscription revenue pool is paid out based on global listens, and the people with fewer hours of use don't control which artists get most of their money. But as far as I'm aware the big labels don't like the idea of changing that.
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