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2026-03-04 19:35 UTC

@fairplayer glad to see projects like this! To echo others, some kind of artist payment is critical before being adopted by most artists. I've long been thinking about an open source, decentralized Spotify alternative that pays the artists the vast majority of all revenue, maybe metered by the minute rather than per stream, up to a maximum monthly payment from the user. Another option is Bandcamp-style purchasing of music. Artists I know like the Bandcamp model. Purchased music would go into one's local library, and would be playable by the streaming app for free, integrated seamlessly with the non-owned (metered) content. Good luck with this project!

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@fairplayer@social.anartist.org 2026-03-04 20:28

@jamesmarshall Thank you! We are in close contact with both listeners and musicians in our local area (in fact, we have both in our development team). Our vision is to let them decide which should be the best payment equilibrium and provide the tools to do it. The ability of purchase music to download is something that we have already discussed, although we are in a very early stage of the development and it will be shaped by the needs of the community!

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@txels@mastodont.cat 2026-03-05 07:22

@jamesmarshall @fairplayer definitely agree with you that pay per listen should be compensated "by the minute" not "by song". I ask myself whether "pay by song" encourages cutting up integral works into smaller pieces. The mechanics of compensation shouldn't condition the creative process and integrity of the artwork.

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