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Just release tracks on podcasting 2.0 feeds.

💯 Spotify is the absolute worst! Never liked them or their business model.

As someone who has played professionally, worked 6 nights a week and could stay on the road without playing the same club for 6 months, I see the problem as being with the past 2 generations of music listeners. It began when high school dances opted for a V-Jay over a live band. Kids never got the experience of what it took to play a live performance. This started the decline in the first of the two generations. The 2nd have never known music to be anything other than digital. A song is something you can flip in and out of. There's no flow of a recording from track 1 to 10 The "industry" consolidated and a writing team was hired to create a 13 week sensation. Pump then dump. The songs, the affected vocals all homogenized. Now 40 years of listening has been boiled down to a Tick Tok ear worm. Spotify is evil no doubt but at the same time, they've no sophistication to serve. AI tunes, bubble butts and gansta lyrics are what the instant gratification crowd seeks. That said: 1000 true fans built through protocols like Nostr and Bitcoin will help musicians .find an appreciative audience. Those who slipped through the cracks and ended up with taste and a discerning ear. I'm all in favor of building this and throw my love of music and technical passion behind it LFG!!! 🔥

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The tools already exist. musicsideproject.com

Agreed. I boo bands when they shill Spotify (I’m the one at F/O/H mixing them). Everyone knows about that company, they don’t need us advertising them. We need to support systems that get folks who paid for their labour. I respond wayyy more positive when they promo their own merch/bandcamp/website, y’know any system that gets them paid. Actually see fewer musicians mention Spotify when performing now. Win.

The art isn’t broken. The system is. We don’t need to beg — we need to rebuild. One sats zap at a time, freedom comes back to the hands that create.

Assuming you can't create a newpipe version of it because of royalties or something

Wavlake is good, just wish it was more popular with artists.

I download all my music

⚡ Thanks for the 20 sats (nostr:npub1uxzu9tgts7ejq7kzh9kkhra3lug0hujlj0h0f5z0kmdmjqulr8as6t6vmm)! You're currently #4 this week. 🙏

Yeah! The issue is the music industry has Stockholm Syndrome. Artists still idolize record labels, fame, and celebrities. They rather give a label 90% of their revenue in exchange for fame than go independent and keep 100% of their money and ownership. Also, the music industry has been so deeply fucked by the internet, that most artists are ok earning pennies, and the whole industry just stopped innovating a long time ago. The industry gave up.

Looking to make my next release as an RSS feed, at this point I don’t know how to do it, just understand it’s possible. Re. Wavlake, it’s early days, it’s seen some criticism round here as it’s not open and is another potential rug pull in waiting for music makers. I’m open minded but just going to some next streaming platform, even if it’s a ‘cool’ bitcoin one isn’t quite the jump I want to make. The RSS route gives more autonomy. I’d be curious to know how many daily users Wavlake have at this point. Last time I checked all the featured songs were about bitcoin, which is too one dimensional for my tastes tbh but I appreciate they’re trying to make a change.

Also back to you’re point about what artists want, labels aren’t touching anyone unless they have a significant following already on social media, the days where indie labels did the R&D of artists are long gone. A young music maker today is way more incentivised to make 1 minute videos than write an album. I don’t know where the ‘industry’ is headed, I just know myself and Spotify will be moving in opposite directions.

Agree completely. Spotify is dead to me.. they can go build bombs with someone else's money, they aren't getting it from me.

Have you met PC2.0 and #v4v music? What you seek already exists and the ecosystem is growing and thriving. Check out lnbeats.com or podcastguru. There's a massive library of freedom-embracing, bitcoin-microtransaction-earning musicians out there. Im sure youve heard of wavlake and it's great, but that's only a portion of the universe of lightning enabled music out there.