Music Industry Update

It looks bleak...

I mean and also exciting with a lot of work to do, I mean Slam Metal music they put out like 500 Heavy Metal videos this year so I mean if you think someone's going to see your name on the list coming out in October I doubt it.

Everyone already listened to music all year, now you get this huge public domain music release so you don't know what albums are public domain and which are new albums for sale.

Why use Spotify pages when the new official links to many albums are now free on archive.org .

Users on web pages and the blogosphere can now share the official free links of the public domain stream host, provide links to the official free downloads or host the free files themselves on their own pages.

So music streaming pages are ok for new albums that the artist charges for that now and others get distributed as "free spotify pages" that music listeners can now use on different pages to listen to the albums.

I mean, the free stream to many albums is now the official stream for the public domain release.

What's the point of these streams on "spotify sites", I mean the new permeant hosted files on public domain are free and always going to be there...what's the point of them on Spotify pages?

Now other websites can make their own "spotify pages" on their url using the free files which is exactly the same as the paid sites.

There's only some "official looking" album releases on public domain to share to websites to make your own spotify like pages, then you get other that are just downloads only for free that you have to manually link to or the music files are in groups so it's hard to stream one album.

Then you'll have to start writing your own code and audio apps to properly stream public domain music albums on your own pages, because the archive is unorganized and the public hack of the site was just in the news this past summer.

My point is you can now listen to many old albums free on the archive which is the same as "spotify pages" but the format makes it hard to use to share to pages to host your own album and song streams on your site from the archive.

Then charging sites like spotify host many free albums now so you don't need to pay, only for new albums that the company charges for.

However, some albums for some of the artists have official looking pages on the archive like "spotify pages" that you can listen to there or use on your own website to make your own song stream pages or album stream pages.

So you don't have to use just streaming now when many songs have free versions on the archive and websites now make their own pages that have free streams on regular urls for the same albums.

Then you don't need to pay a streaming service to listen to those ones.

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