Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack
by coldtea on Friday September 05, 2025 @09:37AM
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>So the author talks about how little money per stream artists make... but how much SHOULD they be making? What is fair compensation for writing a song?
The amount they'd get for royalties if you couldn't pirate but had to buy their album/single to hear it. So similar to what they got at the pre-mp3/pre-Napster era. Remove a little for the (non existing) physical costs.
(Whether they'd actually get 100% or 0.5% of those royalties would be between them and their record company contract).
"But this is streaming"
And my argument still is: you should pay the amount analogous to buying it once, and then stream it forever or zero times. Streaming should just add the convenience, not change the pricing.
The amount they'd get for royalties if you couldn't pirate but had to buy their album/single to hear it. So similar to what they got at the pre-mp3/pre-Napster era. Remove a little for the (non existing) physical costs.
(Whether they'd actually get 100% or 0.5% of those royalties would be between them and their record company contract).
"But this is streaming"
And my argument still is: you should pay the amount analogous to buying it once, and then stream it forever or zero times. Streaming should just add the convenience, not change the pricing.