You don’t have to shed a tear. But I find your take incredibly harsh on bands that are trying to start out and find their audience.

Eliminating low quality AI content is desirable for me as well, but nuking even more incentive for bands that are starting out is the wrong thing to do in IMHO

But then are you implying that those bands that are that unpopular are undeserving of getting paid even a little? Because they’re not a “real” band?

I kind of call bullshit on that take.

There’s definitely AI generated music that can surpass 1000 streams per year and many real bands that cannot.

Aw. That’s unfortunate. I didn’t find anything helpful for iOS after a quick Google search 🥲

In what way is this worse? This is just a service that tracks your listens

I’d recommend PanoScrobbler instead on your phone

Where do you listen to YouTube Music? You can use PanoScrobbler on Android Or Web Scribbler extension if you listen in your browser

Almost looks half way to becoming a pancake

It’s legal if it’s in the sales contract. Usually there is a timeframe.

You should look into Ferrari and their rules. They are even crazier than Tesla for things like this.

Ologies with Alie Ward

as someone who uses protonamil as my main email, this is very disappointing

https://annas-archive.org/

People are using AI tools to do crazy stuff with music right now. It’s pretty great

Human performance but AI voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbbUWU-0GGE

Carl Wheezer covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65BrEZxZIVQ

Torx screws and threaded inserts is not really that much effort engineering side.

It has more significant impact on the cost. Millions of torx screws and threaded inserts cost more than self tapping Phillips into plastic.

Does it have to be a torrent server?

Why not use something like https://annas-archive.org/

Talking to people

Youtube

Listenbrainz (or other scrobbling service)

Subscribing to communities of the genre of music you like

Music-map.com

Following artists you like on social media

I think often needs to be bolded there.

I agree with him, but I don’t think I was toxic about it or even really intended to be toxic.

For me it does. I’m sure some other people use a VPS or something and self host using a cloud provider of some kind.

I just want a service that’s better than Netflix/Amazon/Disney/Spotify can offer. I want all my media in one place. I want access to it even if the internet is down. Segmentation of media across all the platforms is bullshit and it drives me wild. I’m getting less than what I paid for when Netflix was the only game in town. It’s worse and less than what it used to, so why bother paying them.

I pirate everything I consume.

I do believe artists should be paid for what they create, so I still purchase music even if I’ve already pirated it. The artists get more money from me than they would have if I just streamed on Spotify. I think it’s a win-win for me and the artists.

+1 for Logseq & Syncthing

It works really well!