Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats

Re:Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator ... by mattmanser on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:44PM (#42535037)

Google already shut down their first music streaming service.

Trying to get your playlists out was a complete nightmare too, some moron at Google decided on a ridiculously poor data structure. It was something utterly absurd like a zip with a CSV file per track, that generally had only that track in it.

Not going back to a Google run one.

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Re:Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator ... by TOMDM on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:54PM (#42535128)

Shut down seems a bit much, it was transitioned from google play music to youtube music.

I still have all my google play music playlists from 2015 in youtube music.

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Re:Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator ... by regularmother on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:01PM (#42535611)

Well, they shut down two music services. The first was Songza, which they bought. They then took everything Songza had- namely their awesome mood-based, artisanally curated playlists- and put it into Google Play Music. Then they seemingly let go of everyone who maintained the playlists and never updated them again? Those playlists on Songza were _excellent_ and the Snoop Dog collabs were just delightful.

Not sure how Google internally makes decision but I imagine it works entirely quarter by quarter trying to measure individual Impact with no overarching vision or direction.

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