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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.
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inpc 4mo ago

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.

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inpc 4mo ago

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.