Is Soundcloud a good service that I should pay for if I have the money ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Just asking what everyone thinks of the platform. I rarely listen to music, but it seems like spotify but community edition.
There are paid features but I don't seem to need them (Desktop only user), no DRM protection so I can download if I want, site is not heavy on my humble resources.

This post is just asking if Soundcloud is something I should talk positively about. Moral compass in the high seas.

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[-] realitista@piefed.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you're using something like Bandcamp, the artists are already getting thousands of times the money you are giving them from listening on Spotify, I think it's good enough. Even iTunes is thousands of times better.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

And the Bandcamp team deserves their cut for making that happen.

Unlike the Spotify team.

[-] AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

That's right, a friend told me that he gets a lot more from a single purchase on bandcamp, that from spotify

[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 5 points 11 months ago

Spotify earnings are abysmal for anyone other than the biggest artists. Here's a couple of musicians discussing it.

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