Musicological banter

I know MPP ticket office stopped selling tickets for shows the first day of the sale a while ago.  Not sure if this is true.  this sucked because if you wanted to guarantee yourself a ticket to a sure-thing sell-out, you now had to go through the website and pay all the bs service charges.

jeffml wrote: and pay all the bs service charges.

hey, they are convivence fees

Conviviality fee? Like getting along?

Well worth reading his newspaper just click on 45 adapter

I was looking at this collection of remixes being sold on Bandcamp and cost for the vinyl  and CDs were reasonable, but the digital version was listed at 999 quid and i'm like  :o :o :o .. i get it you want people to buy physical, but geeze…

but then i read in the description..  so oh well, the shipping from the UK on even the CDs are probably very expensive…

PLEASE NOTE: One or two of tracks on this album have been licensed from a major label. The terms of this license do not allow us to sell the digital tracks, though anyone purchasing the vinyl will receive a full album download on the day of release.
With Bandcamp being a digital platform we do have to make digital available, so we set a daft prohibitive price to get around the issue.

Hope that explains it!

That's pretty funny

Undated (probably mid-1980s)

Yada wrote:
Didn't take that capitalist Neil too long to hop on Sirius!

im surprised there is zero action (AFAIK) by another big artist

Plus Neil got a pile of money from Sirius
Most others won’t

I think Neil can and should do what he wants, he literally put his money where his mouth is
#respect

But I feel like smacking everyone who has gleefully posted how they ‘stuck it to the man’ by switching from a multi- billion co to another bigger multi million company with probably similar content

I mean another reason to ditch Spotify is by how very little they pay their artists. I believe it’s .003 to .005 cents per stream played.

Apple Music pays .01 per stream in comparison (plus it’s much easier to AirPlay to my setup).

I thought Barry Manilow joined forces.

The stock price is going down, apparently people have been unable to cancel their accounts since so many are doing so.. The only musicians I’ve seen leaving so far are Nils Lofgren and Peter Frampton..

As someone pointed out Spotify simply realized that like many radio stations, more money could be made with caustic talk radio then with music…

And yes I’m a total Qobuz fanboy, but they reportedly pay musicians at the highest rate… But SoundCloud seems to be putting in a more equitable system last I saw

Joni Mitchell is pulling her music off Spotify

And yes I realize this is the equivalent of posting first in the Dropping Like Flies thread

BrettnotBritt wrote:
I mean another reason to ditch Spotify is by how very little they pay their artists. I believe it’s .003 to .005 cents per stream played.

Apple Music pays .01 per stream in comparison (plus it’s much easier to AirPlay to my setup).

THIS is a good reason, but that is not the reason people are doing it, nor exclaiming their virtuosity 

I'm not sure this number is accurate, but their is some credibility that one pays better than the other
  -edit…seems unclear to me, but they do pay artists same rates no mater what the label is significantly different (and apple sticking it to major labels a little at he same time)
-edit 2.0 this guy is claiming .0063 from apple and .0023 from spotify
Amazon unlimited seems to be the place for the most virtuous of royalty players. 


I am curious to what Neil's actual royalty checks were from Spotify? I'm just going to take a wild stab guess that he probably got over $100k a year…but again a wild guess
because David Lowery (and where is he in this debate?) said he can't buy a cup of coffee after three trillion streams

kosmo wrote:
And yes I’m a total Qobuz fanboy,

well I guess neil is a fan too

Mentions them three times
https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=Spotify-More-Songs-Less-Sound

am giving Qobuz a kick in the tires, but knowing your deep musical tastes…what's the catalogue like?
I'm a family plan kinda household, so have lots of tastes to accommodate along my diverse palate

While I often refer to it as the man cave audio site, I would say it was s solid catalog.. I’ve come across the occasional indie title not available.. It’s highlighted new releases are the polar opposite of Spotify’s… I can’t speak to the depth of it’s current rap or pop offerings are, but Taylor, Olivia, BTS, and Little Simz are there for example

For the sake of own curiosity I went through some of highlighted Spotify releases for this week and they are on Qobuz

There are a least couple sites offering the ability to transfer\sync playlists between the two services.

Oh and Billie is on there and I heard some guys from a speaker company talking about amazing her album sounds in Qobuz HiRez… 

kosmo wrote:

There are a least couple sites offering the ability to transfer\sync playlists between the two services.

this interests  me…. Almost the main reason I didn’t want to leave

Soundiiz is mentioned on Qobuz’s website for playlist transfer

https://soundiiz.com/qobuz

There are a bunch of others out there with both free and premium plans

Since I’m not a big playlist user, I’ve never tried any of these, but might give one a shot because I’m interested in checking out actor Robert Carlyle’s playlists he calls Saturday Tunes. Where he highlights a variety of tracks of up and coming Uk bands.

Before we go any further down this path, has anyone confirmed Qobuz is even a word that can be played in Wordle or is this all a giant scam?