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Sources to purchase mp3s? (piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by the_abecedarian@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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On this thread: https://piefed.social/post/1243539 one of the main points of contention is about the tension between how spotify pays artists very little, but piracy doesn't, on it's own, pay them at all.

I'm a heavy user of bandcamp, but i know that it has strengths and weaknesses: it's great for finding independent artists and small labels, but it doesnt have a big catalog for popular tracks.

Do people have experience with other sources for purchasing? What about https://us.7digital.com/ ?

Specifically for self hosting, is there a way to streamline purchases from sites like these into lidarr? If not, is there an automated solution for (1) uncompressing a downloaded archive file from a purchase, then (2) making it conform to a file/folder organizational structure, and (3) having navidrome, jellyfin, etc import it?

Just trying to find workable ideas for owning music and getting artists most of the money.

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[-] ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 46 points 11 months ago

hot take: if an artist is already popular, then they dont need your support anywhere near as much as a bandcamp artist does. i believe it is ethical to enjoy "popular" music without paying for every megabyte. just go see them when they come to town and buy a t-shirt if the spirit moves you.

[-] _NetNomad@fedia.io 28 points 11 months ago

+1 for Bandcamp. they often run a "bandcamp friday" event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 10 points 11 months ago

Wow, that says a lot for Bandcamp

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Especially given that they're owned by Epic Games

[-] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Epic Games is long gone as a owner, they've since been owned by Songtradr, which isn't any better, as they basically are anti-union and only gave 60 out of previously 118 workers a contract to keep working there. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandcamp

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

Huh, I missed that.

[-] ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

i'll have to check those out!!

[-] svddendesire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Every first Friday of the month if I'm not mistaken.

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