Spotify is brilliant

RedAsABeetroot said:
I love Spotify especially for the feature where a playlist ends and it just goes off on random tangents. Can't even remember what I started listening to but then this pops up.

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Thing with Spotify is that you can't use it and think you're helping the bands you listen to. The money that they pay them to use their songs is ridiculously poor. I know they're not perfect but Bandcamp is a decent site to use...at least once a month all the money spent goes directly to the band.
 
What is the DJ option? I’ve never heard of it.

Or the “daylist” option?

It is streets ahead of the other streaming sites, but I use Amazon Music as it works better with all my Alexas.
 
atypical_boro said:
What is the DJ option? I’ve never heard of it.

Or the “daylist” option?

It is streets ahead of the other streaming sites, but I use Amazon Music as it works better with all my Alexas.
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Just checked both out, daylist looks like playlists put together based on the type of music you typically listen to on particular days. Mine is suggesting 60s/70s and ‘campfire’ for Thursday nights 🤷‍♂️

DJ looks like an AI DJ that ‘switches things up’ every few songs, again based on what you listen to.
 
atypical_boro said:
What is the DJ option? I’ve never heard of it.

Or the “daylist” option?

It is streets ahead of the other streaming sites, but I use Amazon Music as it works better with all my Alexas.
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Daylist you need to search for and then you can save. It changes music at various times during the day/week.
DJ is just that it picks some music plays it and then an annoying Septic interrupts.
 
wyliefan said:
It must be only certain books as the ones I've searched for are all to be paid for and I'm a premium subscriber?
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So we have a family plan and just read that it's only the account holder/main user who gets the free 15 hours access which is my daughter who doesn't bother with them and these hours can't be dished out to other family members - bit of a p1sser that.
 
wyliefan said:
So we have a family plan and just read that it's only the account holder/main user who gets the free 15 hours access which is my daughter who doesn't bother with them and these hours can't be dished out to other family members - bit of a p1sser that.
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You can change it so that you are the main holder.
 
jetpropelledgiraffe said:
Thing with Spotify is that you can't use it and think you're helping the bands you listen to. The money that they pay them to use their songs is ridiculously poor. I know they're not perfect but Bandcamp is a decent site to use...at least once a month all the money spent goes directly to the band.
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I don't really agree. I hate Bandcamp personally. A lot of artists I buy release exclusively on there and an album will be £22.99 for example but then it adds on shipping of £15 for a UK artist, and then I hit checkout and it bangs on tax. Often for preorder that then takes 3-6 months to come.

Very rarely a cheap option for me to buy from there. Occasionally it'll actually ship from the uk and shipping is low but every other time it's 20% VAT added on top of expensive shipping, so it being the only outlet at times is a pain & in terms of digital playback of purchases the app isn't great and poorly supported across digital platforms. It's also not for a great outlook after laying off half its staff when sold by epic late last year

I get the fact that streaming pays very low amounts, but on the other hand it also opens artists up to vast amounts of exposure they wouldn't otherwise have.

Historically bands would make nothing or very little on tapes or cds people made each other, or official sales as the label would take most of that. so this at least gives the residual income even if it is low, but vast amount of bands I go see on tour or buy vinyl for I wouldn't even know existed without Spotify, I certainly wouldn't have discovered them on Bandcamp, I don't think I've liked one of their suggested artists yet. I've also seen a lot of bands on tour & bought physical media thanks to the Spotify tour listings and links to albums etc

I prefer the model the Reytons use and just self release - prices kept low and it's working well for them
 
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