"capitalism is the most efficient system" at transforming decent people into freakish crabs in a bucket overly-competitive kulaks, yes
Last year I started a playlist so I could keep track of my favorite DnB tunes. Somehow my playlist got some attention and is sitting at ~5,000 likes. Which was great because I produce DnB and it was the perfect place to promote my own music.
What's not so great is some people like to play dirty and Spotify doesn't seem to care. Soon after my playlist eclipsed a few thousand likes I began recieving emails every 10 minutes with a takedown notice. The bigger playlists/industry people/whoever use report bots to take out the competition, and since spotify's takedown process is automated its pretty annoying. In order to make my playlist viewable again I had to change the name, which mind you was something like "good tunes 2022".
is that the most worthless job possible? "I work in the playlist industry"
I started contacting Spotify through email, twitter and facebook. For a month straight they would tell me they could do nothing, to contact someone else, do something else. Finally I got a response that they would protect my playlist from these report bots. I was super happy and felt relieved of the anxiety this caused, as by this point the playlist had become a large part of my monthly streams.
"anxiety" Don't let bourgeoisie gaslight and abuse you folks
Fast forward to this week, I get another email from spotify but his time it's a notice that they had DISABLED my account. It's basically something like this, "Hope this finds you well! We have disabled your account for selling accounts/taking compensation/trading accounts". Let's be real here it's impossible to vindicate my name but it's not like I have anything to prove, Spotify isn't going to read this, so please take my word for it. I genuinely do this because I enjoy the genre of music.
"I genuinely enjoy this" Well there's your problem, you need to be a completely soulless abomination if you want to thrive in late capitalism like other PMC thought-leader art critic demons :pete:
I have found no good alternative to Spotify playlists. It’s incredible for discovering new music. But yeah, bands and artists you like, you should buy physical or go to bandcamp.
I mean, you're never going to find a direct non-streaming equivalent since you're only listening to the music you've got downloaded, but music trackers worth half a damn usually have suggestions for similar artists that are quite nice. I periodically fall down the hole of youtubing suggested artists at orpheus, and used to do the same thing at what.cd
Half the music in my library comes from what.cd similar artists hunts, now that I think about it.
what.cd got taken down, right? what's orpheus?
Yeah, what.cd was busted unfortunately. Orpheus.network is one of the less weird offshoots of what.cd. It was a bit weird for a couple years with some extended downtimes but they've gotten their shit sorted out and it's steady, reliable, and produces pretty good freeleech benefits and events. They also just work off invites rather than some extremely gate-keepy and flakey IRC interviews.
How do the invites work? It's torrents, right? So there's a ratio of seeding to leeching and other similar requirements? I've never used a private tracker before.
the invites work by hitting up somebody who has indicated they're a member in the dms ( :wink: ) and yeah it's a ratio, you get a little padding off the bat and there's regular monthly freeleech albums you can download to boost your numbers
Ah, I see.
RateYourMusic lists.