I used a Norwegian open-source tool to analyze my old Spotify data as a customer.
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I used a Norwegian open-source tool to analyze my old Spotify data as a customer.
I don't use Spotify anymore, but I can announce that of all the money I ever paid them, approx. 5% went to the artists I listened to.
That is a pretty insane transfer of wealth from the bottom / middle to the top if you ask me.
I already knew Spotify is a big scam for those not at the top, but seeing the numbers still gives me a bodily reaction.
@lislegaard Maybe you should have listened to Taylor Swift, instead!
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I used a Norwegian open-source tool to analyze my old Spotify data as a customer.
I don't use Spotify anymore, but I can announce that of all the money I ever paid them, approx. 5% went to the artists I listened to.
That is a pretty insane transfer of wealth from the bottom / middle to the top if you ask me.
I already knew Spotify is a big scam for those not at the top, but seeing the numbers still gives me a bodily reaction.
@lislegaard@sonomu.club Anyone actually using it is a fucking class traitor, when downloading music is so easy and simple
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@lislegaard@sonomu.club Anyone actually using it is a fucking class traitor, when downloading music is so easy and simple
@nyovaya @lislegaard where do you download your music? i tried downloading music for sets and its fricking hard with a defunct and not working lucida -
@nyovaya @lislegaard where do you download your music? i tried downloading music for sets and its fricking hard with a defunct and not working lucida
@lislegaard@sonomu.club @april@donotsta.re Youtube, all via yt-dlp
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@lislegaard@sonomu.club @april@donotsta.re Youtube, all via yt-dlp
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@nyovaya @lislegaard thats what ive been doing all the time i just hoped there to be a more elegant solution
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@nyovaya @lislegaard thats what ive been doing all the time i just hoped there to be a more elegant solution
@lislegaard@sonomu.club @april@donotsta.re Elegant in the way that it manages your library?
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@lislegaard @theron29 might be a little tough for me to upload my files to the cloud: 25,000+ files amassing almost 300 GB. If I copied those to Dropbox, it would probably take months. I just copied at my files to a RAID array with 12TB of space.
@jaypeach53 @lislegaard @theron29 Oracle give 200gb free afair.
I just run a rpi4 at home with navidrome and some rotating rust
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@lislegaard@sonomu.club @april@donotsta.re The best solution would probably be to share some e.g. ampache instance with others
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I used a Norwegian open-source tool to analyze my old Spotify data as a customer.
I don't use Spotify anymore, but I can announce that of all the money I ever paid them, approx. 5% went to the artists I listened to.
That is a pretty insane transfer of wealth from the bottom / middle to the top if you ask me.
I already knew Spotify is a big scam for those not at the top, but seeing the numbers still gives me a bodily reaction.
@lislegaard Music and money aside just the idea of feeding Spotify all your info seems a worry.
I have loads of artist friends that whinge about AI whilst being completely addicted to Spotify's algorithm hellscape, they are the problem not some AI jazz noises.
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@lislegaard Music and money aside just the idea of feeding Spotify all your info seems a worry.
I have loads of artist friends that whinge about AI whilst being completely addicted to Spotify's algorithm hellscape, they are the problem not some AI jazz noises.
also letting an algorithm decide the music for you is maybe not the best way to have music be a connecting force between humans. anoter space for people to be in their own bubbles instead of shared experiences with their community.
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@lislegaard@sonomu.club @april@donotsta.re Elegant in the way that it manages your library?
of course it would be better to feed some money into the working class and middle class artists rather than just not pay anything, but considering how bad it is now it is better than paying spotify.
also to vote for a party that want to support the arts.
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@lislegaard Maybe you should have listened to Taylor Swift, instead!
ah yes of course! my stupid mistake!
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also letting an algorithm decide the music for you is maybe not the best way to have music be a connecting force between humans. anoter space for people to be in their own bubbles instead of shared experiences with their community.
@lislegaard Yeah, it's really extreme ime.
Even in selfhosted land people arrive with "But how on earth can you find new music?" The idea of using 'the internet', other humans, the radio or god forbid a shop seems completely alien.
I left Spotify after a, free, year as the music it kept feeding me was so unfathomably awful I was gonna crash the car....and people actually pay them to fuck artists over for this.
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@lislegaard Yeah, it's really extreme ime.
Even in selfhosted land people arrive with "But how on earth can you find new music?" The idea of using 'the internet', other humans, the radio or god forbid a shop seems completely alien.
I left Spotify after a, free, year as the music it kept feeding me was so unfathomably awful I was gonna crash the car....and people actually pay them to fuck artists over for this.
being the neigbour country of sweden we got the propaganda early here in norway. and in the beginning it was all humans curating the playlists + i was listening to albums anyways, so it didn't affect my music listening in the beginning. (money aside)
but enshittification is real, so all those curators got fired and replaced by an algorithm.
reminds me of facebook (and the rest of big tech). great for the users in the beginning, über-evilcorp fucking us over now.
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being the neigbour country of sweden we got the propaganda early here in norway. and in the beginning it was all humans curating the playlists + i was listening to albums anyways, so it didn't affect my music listening in the beginning. (money aside)
but enshittification is real, so all those curators got fired and replaced by an algorithm.
reminds me of facebook (and the rest of big tech). great for the users in the beginning, über-evilcorp fucking us over now.
i wrote a blog post about how to find new music btw
https://www.kristofferlislegaard.com/blog/2025-11-05-be-your-own-algorithm-in-search-of-new-music/
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I used a Norwegian open-source tool to analyze my old Spotify data as a customer.
I don't use Spotify anymore, but I can announce that of all the money I ever paid them, approx. 5% went to the artists I listened to.
That is a pretty insane transfer of wealth from the bottom / middle to the top if you ask me.
I already knew Spotify is a big scam for those not at the top, but seeing the numbers still gives me a bodily reaction.
@lislegaard That even makes Apple's 30% look fair. Wow
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i wrote a blog post about how to find new music btw
https://www.kristofferlislegaard.com/blog/2025-11-05-be-your-own-algorithm-in-search-of-new-music/
@lislegaard Nice, thanks and will have a peek at some of the artists.
About two years ago I set up a signal groupchat called 'Music' with 10 or so friends around the world, and gave some logins for my navidrome server.
The amount of amazing music it's generated, and rabbit holes, is more than I'm able to even vaguely keep on top of.
some cool tunes here:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/
I made to have a tiny, free, simple, always on streamer for some of them here:
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@lislegaard @nyovaya@transfem.socialyouwere searching for "vote for a Party", did you meant "start a Revolution after socialist ideals"
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@lislegaard @nyovaya @april I've always joked about it that people pirating my music has earned me more money than Spotify and all the other streaming services combined. Piracy costs me 0 dollars and I gained at minimum 0 dollars. (potentially more if people bought my music after pirating it, but impossible to track that)
Big tech streaming services on the other hand, if memory serves me right, have earned me somewhere around 200 dollars probably in the last 10+ years, but cost me I think 75 dollars a year to keep the music on them. In other words, they've earned me negative 550 dollars.
