On the other hand, this Rust-based one called Psst looks awesome and works: https://github.com/jpochyla/psst. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Psst but currently very limited in features and have to build yourself. Source: about 1 year ago

I don't know how can I install this open source software from github. Source: over 1 year ago

Would like to add that you can also use clients such as spotify-qt and Spotify TUI to control said "device". There's also Spot and psst that are standalone (librespot not required but no Connect functionality). Source: over 1 year ago

You can also take a look at Psst. I use Symphonia for decoding and CPAL or CubeB for output. CubeB is a bit nicer. Source: over 1 year ago

According to Spotify's data report site[0], there were 17,800 artists grossing over $50k from Spotify, out of a denominator of ~8 million, or 200k if you use Spotify's estimate of “professional or professionally aspiring”. I don't know much at all about the music industry, so I don't really have a conclusion from those data, but that seems low. It also does put a (not insignificant) number on the independents... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

They’ve updated their Loud & Clear page with stats from 2022 on royalty payments and overall Artist payouts. Source: about 1 year ago

Just 20% of spotify artists have more than 50 listeners. Additionally there are an estimate 80 million total tracks on Spotify and only 719,000 tracks have more than 1 million views, that's less than 1%. Haken are literally in the top 1% of artists on spotify. This is based on 2021 data: https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

AFAIK royalties are paid out for every stream over 30 seconds long. The 'context' (album, playlist, single play) doesn't matter. "royalties [are] based on an artist’s share of overall streams across the platform" [1] My guess is that playlists lead to more engagement than albums. Users listen longer, and discover new music, which leads to more listening in the future. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

> This is where I shrug my shoulders and say "Why not [blame] both?" I've yet to see any of these discussions to blame both. And your own comment literally never mentions the Big Three. > can all be screwing over creators in conjunction with their publishers. I prefer not to wade in to conspiracy territory. Apple may have power over the industry, but they are an outlier. The rest do whatever the industry tels them... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago