I think there's legs in the idea of "hey, you've listened to this a bunch, would you like to pay more (and perhaps get something else)?" But this ain't it.
Personally I'd be happy to pay $2 a month when I don't listen to much music and up to $30-40/month when I'm obsessed with album(s) and listening to them every day - how much that costs Spotify is somewhat irrelevant to me
The one that doesn't is the bit about "how much value they derive from it." All sorts of real-life experimentation/psychology, etc shows that people don't much know or understand or generally follow this thing of "a person develops a sense of how much something is worth to them and makes purchases accordingly," I mean, a moment's thought reveals that if this were true, advertising (and perhaps, google and facebook et als entire business models) wouldn't exist.
I have idiosyncratic music preferences like you, but we much don't matter.
This is a huge oversight.
Resonate is a good idea in theory but the majority of people who really care about independent artists getting paid properly for digital music (which seems to be the main purpose behind Resonate) are supporting artists by buying from Bandcamp, rather than solely streaming.
Its kind of telling that Resonate has been around for 7 years yet the database is 13,000 songs. In my experience artists and labels will upload their music anywhere that will get them plays/pays. Not saying that Bandcamp is perfect but it really resonates (sorry) with artists and labels.
Hopefully Resonate can get it right because we need more people to become comfortable with paying for music again.
Can you sign up as a listener and an artist? I tried but it says "This username is already registered" and "This email address is already registered".
The latter seems like an issue though. It would be great to be able to convert a listener account into an artist account, or to have both under one account entity.
And the other comment is correct... co-op membership is optional.
I actually like the pay-per-play model personally even though that might irk some people. I'm interested to see how the pricing shakes out for an audiophile type who consumes lots of music.
Now we're duped into the false belief that somehow Spotify, while making record profit year after year paying artists $0.0000001 cent per stream is reasonable?
This economy will bankrupt everyone who is not in their engineered and very controlled food chain if we give them subscription money just to listen to sponsored playlists that we can find and listen to elsewhere for free if we look hard enough. Tons of great musicians are putting out music on YouTube for free, and many other places, but the lazy attitude of only paying attention to charts, and letting playlists dictate what succeeds is really killing music because the money pipeline is locked down by the big industry, and it only pushes sterile and engineered music, not real honest music by naturally talented musicians.
It's a sham now, and the wrong people who do nothing to create and deliver the music make the profit, while the real artists pay the worst price of working hard. Musicians are forced to beg people with GoFundMe and Patreon campaigns and very often die broke in this weak new type of Internet music economy.
Plain and simple. Music needs a new reasonable delivery model, and we need to stop supporting monopolistic communities for content they don't make nor promote fairly while they totally rip the true OC creators off.
I have no relation to OP, nor the platform cited... I'm just a musician that has been through the storm.
> Plays start off cheap when you're discovering and as you fall in love with a song, you come to pay the full price.
> There's no transition out of Resonate to buy a song or album. Purchase it directly, or just keep listening.
> Resonate pays artists directly and per-play. For listeners, the overall cost is similar to that of the average monthly streaming subscription.
I'd be interested in seeing how the 9 plays number was derived, or a deeper discussion or article more than what's on the linked page. This is an interesting model, I hope it works out the way the creators intended.
Resonate – A community-owned music network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20827361 - Aug 2019 (5 comments)
Resonate – a cooperatively owned streaming music service - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11283175 - March 2016 (2 comments)
Having music on doesn’t require an active listening experience, nor should it. And if I really want to engage with an artist, I’m going to see them live or buy their work on a medium I own whose playback I control. Sorry, but for me this stream credit system would be more of a pain than a benefit.
"INEQUITIES have been exacerbated." - yikes, no thanks.
