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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

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    tried to make things clearer

    1 hour ago, cern said:

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    disregarding some inaccuracies such as that musicians are in fact paid "a fraction of penny" per listen as opposed to in total (which she implies), and that a handful of artists are probably nearing joe rogan sums of spotify money, this is a pretty good point. sends a message about what music as an art is worth, i suppose. same point made in the abovementioned new yorker article.

    there was this joke in a swedish tv show recently on how most cultural news shows are in fact entertainment news shows and should be named as such (e.g. is it cultural or entertainment news that kanye and kim broke up or that rihanna is pregnant? i'd wager the latter alternative). this reminds me of that. spotify is, in the end, more interested in entertainment than they are in culture

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

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    i think the music streaming companies made a brilliant move in promoting playlists over albums etc. as consumers we're locked in, despite wanting to leave e.g. spotify. i'm guilty of this myself. what average consumer without a decent sized mp3-library has the time, money and motivation to recreate their bazillion one-song-per-artist-playlists without using a convenient streaming service

    AI Art

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    great find.

    some favourites i made a while back

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    some friends also accidentally created a character and had him painted in different ways. didn't screenshot the keywords unfortunately, but here are all sorts of big papa tonies:

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    original big papa toni:

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    big papa toni in the style of monet:

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    by van gogh:

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    gothic big papa toni:

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    surrealist big papa toni:

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    by hr giger:

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    by hilma af klint:

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    jackson pollock:

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    RIP Salvatorin

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    RIP

    i haven't been here as long and as often as many of you but it's really nice and touching to see the community come together this way. hearing the mozex vocals again brought a wide smile to my face

    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

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    1 hour ago, lyst said:

    The same way tapes and CDs are a thing of the past, times change.  I decided to embrace Spotify instead of vilify it and to be honest it seems much better to me than throwing an EP on bandcamp on some shitty net-label or self releasing and seeing it gain zero traction.  (Which I did for probably a decade).

    Never forget a musician for thousands of years was mainly a traveling miscreant that barely made enough money to survive.   I think the ability for people to make a living off of music has grown exponentially, you just have to play the games.  Which I see no harm in.

    A lot of socialist utopian views in this thread.  Where everyone gets paid thousands of dollars for their shitty IDM.  Sorry it never did and never will happen.  
     

    You don’t think artists were annoyed for decades that only 1% of music hit the radios?  That some corporate exec said just play Red Hot Chili Peppers today 250 times instead of great music that was out there?  
     

    People will always find something to complain about.  Always.   
     

    this is what putting up with the status quo reads like. besides, spotify could still pay better. it's not mutually exclusive

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

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    10 minutes ago, dcom said:

    On the topic of piracy - I personally don't do it at all, due to being comfortably privileged in having a job and a monthly salary - and being on the clock at the moment I'll elaborate only with a link to a particularly good exposition on the subject:

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    i've given some thought to how piracy, and most likely cloud services, and the following availability of the content offered makes art less dear to us and how we simply add things to playlists/download and catalogue them without actually enjoying them. maybe because we stream/download things we'd otherwise not buy, or because there's just so much other stuff to go through we feel we don't have time to give to the stuff we've already got. as consumers, we become less picky. or maybe it's just me. i've got so much shit in my backlog i don't feel like going through.

    9 minutes ago, plugexpert said:

    Can't you guys get a real job? ?

    what's that supposed to do? working 40h a week is probably the main reason i'm using spotify. if i worked less i'd have more time for my interest in music. but maybe i'm missing your point.

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

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    36 minutes ago, ooqpoo said:

    Spotify was terrible to begin with, now it's big, greedy AND crap. 

    I don't understand why anyone would use Spotify when there's so many better options available; good old Piratebay, Bandcamp etc. or the artists very own website are way better. And listening to music from a phone is odd in the first place too unless it's YouTube or something which can't always be readily converted to mp3 and put on an mp3 player.   

     

    *spotify doesn't pay artists enough, so i'll download their stuff illegally, for free instead*

    while i wholeheartedly agree with how spotify's business model is as disgusting as daniel ek's quote, i gotta disagree with how a lot of posters seem to think it offers a bad user experience etc. etc. i was a subscriber for several years, tried to do without it for a number of months, and ended up resubscribing because of the convenience offered. (@dcom i've also thought of convenience as a problem, but haven't heard of the article. looks interesting)

    i'm not an extremely busy person, but finding new music, buying/downloading it and putting it on my 32GB iphone (which, in reality, leaves no more than 15GB for music) actually takes an inordinate amount of time that i simply don't have (or want to spend) on moving, backing up, organizing files etc. not to mention selecting, transferring, "digging", which is done extremely fast on more user friendly, integrated services like spotify. i got other stuff i also want to do. also, you could argue that i'd have to buy a new phone/mp3 player in order to conveniently fit my music onto a portable device, which is also undesirable from an ecological/anti-capitalistic standpoint. finally, you don't have to subscribe to algorithmically generated playlists. you can use the service however you want.

    call it hypocrisy if you want. i'm sure a lot of you are buying into things you're also opposed to. living in the 21st century is tricky

     

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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    On 6/29/2020 at 2:07 PM, tailings said:

    Yep, mostly.  Never much cared for the party building aspect but it seems to go with the genre.

     

    I've played most of those.  Fallout 2 is one of my all time favorite games, (Arcanum is up there as well.).  In a perfect world, Van Buren went on to become the real Fallout 3.

     

    Culling the list, looks like I have these choices for MAC play.  A few are Catalina incompatible :(.  Not a deal breaker but certainly a nuisance.  Divinity will probably kill my system.  Pillars and Disco are standing out as most intriguing.  Thanks for the lists.

    what did you end up getting? bought and finished disco elysium this month. really immersive and entertaining, despite the choppy gameplay on my 2015 macbook air. am usually disappointed with games that allegedly have a "great story". sometimes i feel like gamers/critics/developers haven't watched a single decent movie. that wasn't the case this time though. great writing indeed. will definitely play through once i've given my poor computer some well deserved rest

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