Spotify seeds in-house produced music in playlists created for “passive consumption” so they can pay themselves for your streams

Spotify seeds in-house produced music in playlists created for “passive consumption” so they can pay themselves for your streams https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

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I’m fairly indifferent on Spotify. It’s not my hill to die on, honestly. But I do wish they would be more transparent about when they are making the music like documented here, I probably wouldn’t even care about this if it felt more honest

i read a study about spotify’s revenue (i think this may be first year the broke even?) and came to my own conclusion that spotify is net positive for indie music that otherwise wouldn’t have had distribution bc 3 music labels dominate the space

will read this article and see if it changes my POV

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Unfortunately I’m unsurprised. Deleted my Spotify account and am going off-algorithm back to CDs as a result of reading Filterworld recently. My #2 fave book I read in 2024:

Unfortunately I’m unsurprised. Deleted my Spotify account and am going off-algorithm back to CDs as a result of reading Filterworld recently. My #2 fave book I read in 2024:

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But no. That’s not a correct comparison because they try to hide this. If the artist was correctly attributed “Spotify Studios” it would be this way but they hide behind fake names trying to deceive the user into thinking it’s an actual artist

These in-house artists are Shopify's version of "Amazon Basics". Love it.

Yikes. As an Apple Music subscriber I might occasionally find some amateur MIDI-rendered “lo-fi” cover slop in my recommendations… but this is some next-level anti-competitive behavior.