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...So I Finally Quit Spotify (oliviarafferty.substack.com)
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[–] jafo@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Last weekend I used https://github.com/linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic to copy my Spotify playlists over to YouTube Music, and the shuffle play is SOOO much nicer there! That was my primary gripe with Spotify, the shuffle play is idiotic

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As far as I recall. YT Music pays even less than Spotify does unfortunately.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

here’s a TL;DR summary for what we’ve got:

  1. Spotify paid the artists $0,0032 per stream
  2. Apple Music got the average rate of $0,0056
  3. Google Play Music landed a $0,0055 payout rate
  4. Deezer fell slightly lower at $0.00436

From https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts#streaming-payouts-on-spotify-apple-music-google-play-and-deezer which is admittedly a bit old.

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe YouTube music premium streams actually pay more than Spotify but the cross between YouTube paying way less and YouTube music paying more causes some confusion.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

According to the soundcharts link below, they pay about half of spotify's pay.