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0 pointsDylan168075mo ago0 comments

> Payout per stream is a terrible metric. It's almost like if you ranked grocery stores by payment per gram.

CDs are usually similar prices. Per-stream isn't nearly as bad as wildly different products sharing prices.

We could debate per stream versus per minute but I don't know if that's a particularly big effect. It causes some annoyance but it's mostly compensated for already.

Anything that gives different value to different artists is probably going to favor the big ones and just make things worse.

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vintermann5mo ago

CDs get wildly different number of plays. But the number of plays, whether from a record or from a streaming service, isn't proportional to how glad you are that this music exists and you can listen to it.

The present system favors big artist rights owners a lot, but most of all it rewards owners of music played on repeat, i.e. background music.

Dylan16807OP5mo ago

I do think allocating money per-account or something should be better. Don't let a constant listener allocate the royalties from ten other people.

Trying to measure importance feels like a lost cause.

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