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CTD
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FFS Apple. I had one copy of Moonshadow by Cat Stevens, from the original album. It keeps adding new versions from the most bizarre collections. Why does it do this? The original is still there but it has added at least a dozen more.

#appleMusic
#apple

The image displays a music streaming app interface featuring an album titled "忘れられない70年代洋楽ラブソング" (which translates to "Unforgettable 70's Love Songs"). The album cover shows a romantic illustration of a couple
Mario Guzmán
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Well this is annoying.

A friend sent me something festive to listen to but sent it from the Apple Music Classical app.

I'm on my Mac. You would *think* since the Mac doesn't have Apple Music Classical, it would default to Music.app. But no... it doesn't.

It does give you a link to get Classical... but it isn't compatible with macOS. Obviously. 🙄🙃

#AppleMusic#macOS#AppleMusicClassical
Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦
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As suspected, Spotify is using generic stock Muzak bought from production libraries so they don’t have to pay royalties to artists.

Not surprised, since CEO Daniel Ek refers to music as “content” and thinks it takes little effort to create. 🙄

This is one of the ways “content” hurts the arts and severs the relationship between artists & their audience.

harpers.org/archive/2025/01/th

In a Slack channel dedicated to discussing the ethics of streaming, Spotify’s own employees debated the fairness of the PFC program. “I wonder how much these plays ‘steal’ from actual ’normal’ artists,” one employee asked. And yet as far as the public was concerned, the company had gone to great lengths to keep the initiative under wraps. Perhaps Spotify understood the stakes—that when it removed real classical, jazz, and ambient artists from popular playlists and replaced them with low-budget stock muzak, it was steamrolling real music cultures, actual traditions within which artists were trying to make a living. Or perhaps the company was aware that this project to cheapen music contradicted so many of the ideals upon which its brand had been built. Spotify had long marketed itself as the ultimate platform for discovery—and who was going to get excited about “discovering” a bunch of stock music?
Artists had been sold the idea that streaming was the ultimate meritocracy—that the best would rise to the top because users voted by listening. But the PFC program undermined all this. PFC was not the only way in which Spotify deliberately and covertly manipulated programming to favor content that improved its margins, but it was the most immediately galling. Nor was the problem simply a matter of “authenticity” in music. It was a matter of survival for actual artists, of musicians having the ability to earn a living on one of the largest platforms for music. PFC was irrefutable proof that Spotify rigged its system against musicians who knew their worth. In 2023, on a summer afternoon in Brooklyn, I met up with a jazz musician in a park. We talked about the recent shows we had seen, our favorite and least favorite venues, the respective pockets of the New York music scene we moved through. He spoke passionately about his friends’ music and his most cherished performance spaces
#Spotify#IndieMusic#MusicBusiness
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sachirin
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After watching episode 11, I felt like sharing the little playlist I worked on earlier this week. Some of these are pretty apt, if I may say so myself! :fernhappy:

music.apple.com/playlist/%E3%8

*rocking chair creaking* Back in the day we used to call these FSTs, fan soundtracks, we had whole communities dedicated to them—

My Okarun x Momo playlist on Apple Music! Left of Center - Suzanne Vega Song for the Leftovers - A Camp Nervous to Exist Around You - Foliage All Dressed Up - Hazel English 你的宇宙 - Cosmos People Like a Tattoo - Bonnie Pink Momoiro - Kyanai Nee, Chanto Kiiteru? - Riria. Kimi no Ie ni Tsuku Made Zutto Hashitte Yuku - Garnet Crow Gravity - Embrace Bonus: You’re Stronger than You Think - GoGo Penguin William Tell Overture - Glen Campbell Nakaseru Ze - Takakura Ken
#DanDaDan#ダンダダン#オカモモ
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