>gives 70% of their revenue to the rights-holders (the people who own the music/content)
>lost money for 17 years before finally becoming profitable last year
>artists still bitch about "Spotify not paying enough"
>literally saved the music industry and generated $10 Billion for the music industry last year
Are people ungrateful in your country?

>>212370307 (OP)
Isn't the CEO investing in war companies? Seems weird

>>212370307 (OP)
How was it able to operate for 17 years in the negative? Sounds like bullshit

>release videos showing off fancy new LA offices
Yeah such humble people

>>212370307 (OP)
They're worse than yt when it comes to bricking cracked clients. It's over, my jeetass can no longer siphon out of this.

>>212370355
It's a European defence company that supplies drones to the Russia-Ukraine war, supporting Ukraine. How is that bad?

>>212370416
>How was it able to operate for 17 years in the negative?
VC money and by being cash flow positive but making a loss after employee stock option compensation.

>$0.004 per stream

Wow so much money!

>>212370524
You don't get paid per stream. You get paid based on your percentage of total streams. Spotify always pay out 70% of the revenue to the rights-holders. Having a more popular product, i.e. more streams, is not bad for the artists.

>>212370523
>How is that bad?
>supporting Ukraine

>>212370416
You declare a goal and ask for investment, then live off investment. See early Amazon.

>>212370523
You need to go back Mykola

okay I use revanced btw

yt-dlp and ffmpeg for me

>>212370355
>>212370523
Holy based, I'm even happier to give them my money

Spotify is pretty cool. Their EDM playlists suck though.

>>212375864
Why are you using ffmpeg for YouTube downloads?
It's like using a scalpel to cut the crust off sliced bread.

>>212376039
yt-dlp handles the downloads, ffmpegs just rips the music out of the video

still not paying for music
still not streaming music

downloading all music in FLAC just as god has intended

>>212370307 (OP)
music streaming is the worst trend of 2010s
before it music industry was headed for a collapse and it was a good thing

>>212370585
I see your point
but on the other hand it facilitates russians dieing so its a net positive

>>212376252
You can rip the audio directly with jdownloader, you would bypass downloading the video. It'll be in the opus format. Either way the bitrate is still 128 no matter which method.

>creates hundreds and thousands of fake artists and floods ite own system with fake songs, inflating their streams and fucking up the internal accounting to pay less to small labels and indie singers
How very jewish

>>212370307 (OP)
>>literally saved the music industry
retard

>>212370355
if I had money I'd be investing in war companies

>>212370307 (OP)
>Are people ungrateful in your country?
you have no idea

>>212375864
I used yt-dlp with a video on youtube but the quality is not 1:1, the video on youtube still looks better, false advertising

>>212370307 (OP)
great compnay

>>212370307 (OP)
Ok

>>212370307 (OP)
>shows ads even if you pay for a subscription
dogshit app, they're lucky the other ones are even worse.