Most systems were designed with the assumption they would not be deployed in an adversarial environment.
But capitalism makes everything an adversarial environment.
Them’s fightin’ words.
People look to find vulnerabilities in systems for fun, it’s not necessarily because of capitalism.
It’s right there in the article.
According to McDonald, “streaming music fraud is not, to be brutally honest, the most glamorous or profitable form of villainy” because “streaming rewards accumulate in tiny micro-transactions.” The only way to get rich is to scale the shady streaming by becoming a business—it seems possible due to similarities in thousands of fake album designs that all the labels McDonald flagged could be under one licensor—but even then, “the larger the scale, the easier it is to detect,” McDonald suggested.
And while we’re on the subject, if Spotify could also stop lumping several artists of the same name together on the same profile, that’d be great. There’s an old surf-rock band called the Astronauts that I listen to sometimes, and at one point there were albums from at least four different bands included on their discography page. There’s still at least two.
There’s a kid calling himself Prince.
No.
I keep getting served some supremely mediocre eastern European hip-hop in Release Radar and other Spotify-generated playlists because of some guy who performs as Devo. Same with guys performing as Slayer, Poe, etc.
A lot of the time they’re listed on the track along with two or three other people, so I go to the pages of those associated acts and tap the “don’t play this artist” option in the three dots menu, and that usually cuts down on how much I see them in my feeds. At least until they do a new collab.
At least you can have separate pages for artists with the same name on streaming services, it’s been a nightmare on last.fm since it’s/audioscrobbler’s inception. I know, I know, what year is it?!
If its any consolation every streaming service has this problem.
Moderation is always understaffed, in one way or another.
More like non-existent.
Last week I set up Navidrome on my PC, and connect to it with an app (Tempo) on my phone.
It’s like having my own Spotify. Snappier too.
How do you find new music? (if you do)
Youtube ? I get recommended to new artists all the time even when not watching a music video, but following showcase channel grants better results I think (Tiny Desk, Audiotree, First Take just to name a few)
Cool, thanks for sharing! I’ll check them out.
Most of my tracks have been collected over time, through various different methods. Most recently I’ve been buying digital copies of albums I like when streamed (usually YouTube Music provides a nice way to sample them this way).
However some artists spend their entire careers trying to remove a rib, yet their music sounds good so I usually Torrent those.
No-no, I’m not asking about how you get the files, I’m asking about how you find new music (e.g. a song of an artist you don’t know that is similar to the ones you listen to, or a new album of one of the bands you like).
OH! Sorry I completely misunderstood, I love that question.
Various ways. Sometimes I go to record shops, and go through the vinyls until I find something with a cool name or other arbitrary metric I’ve come up with to choose an album. This is how, many years ago, I found Foxboro Hot Tubs -i literally picked it up and thought, “well this sounds like it may be a funky band!” Then realised immediately that the lead singer sounded a lot like Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong but singing entirely different styles. Turns out it was a side band of theirs!!
Other times I always keep Shazam handy when I’m outside, going for walks, meeting with people, going somewhere to eat, etc. in this way I’ve realised a lot of other people have very cool tastes so when I hear something I like, I literally pull out Shazam on my phone and see if it can figure it out.
For the moments it doesn’t work, I usually find someone to ask. Doesn’t always work though.Other times I’m just going through each playlist on streaming services, like YouTube Music, and just skipping until I find something I like and then add it to a list.
I listen to various genres, however there are a lot of sub-genres alongside occasional fusions I would miss out on if I only go with the tunes I know, so I’m keen to just randomise the genres rather than focus on one solely. Cypress Hill is a good example, since there are a good number of tracks they did with a rock vibe, or that Korn track they did with Ice Cube. Many times I’m playing songs for the vibe I’m in at the time, so it literally can flip from Suidakra to Taylor Swift depending on my hectic mind haha.Hope that answers your query.
It does, thank you for the tips!
Same here!! Been absolutely fantastic so far. Although I have to remake my playlists, totally worth it considering Spotify is only getting worse and worse each year. Discovered late last night that Navidrome supports smart playlists, so will play around a little with that.
Thought I’d make a Lemmy post about the whole transition when I’m completely done migrating 😊
I’m a bit busy to post about the transition myself, though I’ll definitely upvote yours when I see it in the feed :)
I like that some apps provide different things, like Tempo straight away gave me a page where I could select by genre and so on. It’s great having this freedom.
I saw this when I was confused how SAMURAI, the fake band from cyberpunk, suddenly got a new album release, and yet it didn’t sound anything like the rest of their songs
