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Spotify continues to have trolls spreading disinformation about their payouts to artists. The 10-K, a financial statement they have to file with the SEC clearly states Spotify pays out 62% of revenues to artists. And clearly their payout has dropped from $.0032 to $.0027. What part of reality don’t you assholes understand? What’s even worse is the demonstrable fact that four years ago the payout was $.0043 per stream.

You trolls must have flunked simple math and gotten an A+ in Marketing for Sleezeballs. You’re no more capable of understanding reality than is Donald Trump.

And I got an email from UMAW saying that they’re trying to introduce legislation that requires streaming platforms to pay at least a penny per stream. That would affect bottom feeders like Spotify, Apple Music and SoundCloud. And would finally give some money to the artists that deserve to be fairly compensated. After all, most companies are multi-billion dollar operations. Show your support of UMAW at weareumaw.org

Well, I just dropped two new songs, Symbiosis and Brazil Deep Phonk. They’re already available on SoundCloud, and due to drop on most major streaming platforms on June 12. Yeah, that’s aways away, but platforms like Spotify require lead times of up to a month so that their curators have time to check your work out and prepare your songs for Release Radar and similar offerings. Not that the pay to play platform Spotify makes any effort to promote your music unless you pay for the privilege. Anyways check out my linktree at linktr.ee/jaypeach53 for distrokid’s presave pages. Every click you make to presave the song helps me immeasurably, so thank you.

As you can see, Hostinger’s performance is less than stellar. One could hope that it shouldn’t take 5 seconds to display a web page, though as least the page is relatively bug-free after the paint.

Hostinger woes continue, as trying to use the web interface on an iPhone is still a pain, with scrolling down to fill a post is impossible. This action is even worse than it was a few weeks ago. Scrolling used to be hit or miss, but now it’s totally broken.

Got this bummer of a message

Dear Songwhip subscriber,

We’ve been proud to help you market your music online and grow your audience over the last three years. Today we’re announcing that Songwhip’s subscription and free services will be ending effective July 22, 2024.

We want to thank you for choosing Songwhip, and for being part of our mission to connect fans around the world to the great releases from our vibrant community of music creators.

We know this change may affect you and we’re here to help with the transition. Below you’ll find answers to questions about next steps and what it means for your Songwhip pages and links. 

We appreciate your cooperation and wish you much success in your continuing music journey.

The Songwhip Team

I don’t have a problem with music takedowns. During the four years that I’ve been releasing music, I’ve only gotten 3-4 takedown notices from all distributors, as opposed to the 81 songs I’ve released. Most of them have been from SoundCloud, and they have a lousy algoritm for detecting copyright violations. But one thing that saves them is they do have a resolution mechanism for disputing copyright claims. Apple, on the other hand, has no dispute mechanism. This meanswith Apple, there’s no way to dispute their findings, and if Apple’s algoritm is as bad as that that discovery tool they’ve got, then they get a lot of false positives.

Got a rig together last night that included the Roland S-1 and Roland SP404. Recorded some ideas with the Zoom H8 recorder. I still can’t figure out how to save the settings on the S-1 so if I get a musical idea, I have to record it otherwise it’s gone. The S-1 manual doesn’t seem to be of much help. Maybe I should check out Youtube to see if there are tutorials on the S-1.

Well, we had our first 100 degree day of 2024 here in Las Vegas. 101 to be exact. To me it didn’t feel that hot as the humidity was low. I guess summer is coming. Gonna try another season without air conditioning. Once I get used to the heat, going outside where the temperature is high is less oppressive than the temperature differential when using air. I’ll continue to run my humidifiers as the plants and stringd instruments dry out too much.

Found a new place to buy organic and other less processed foods, Misfits Market. They also have fruits and veggies that won’t be sold in grocery stores because they’re blemished or off sized. But the prices seem to reflect that and if you’re looking for a larger assortment of organic stuff than the usual big box store, check them out. Click on the link and get $10 off your order. https://www.misfitsmarket.com/?promo=COOKWME-TP4EHAGGAVC

Maybe Meta should get the TikTok treatment, given that Zuckberg conspired with the Russians in the Cambridge Analytics fiasco. Right wing traitors should be forced to divest, if American “security” is so important. Its well-known that Meta boosts right wing propaganda and suppresses news from other sources. They also allow hate speech from the right unimpeded.

Meta is a right leaning social platform, just like Twitttr and Fox faux “News” and Truth Social . In fact its hard to find a platform that’s not right wing. Oligarchs want it that way so that they can control the narrative. That’s why its important thet TikTok doesn’t get banned.

“Security” objections? Google, Microsoft, and Meta all perform all sorts of data mining on their users in order to sell that usage info to the highest bidder. Users have no choice in the matter. That’s why there’s so much identity theft.