- cross-posted to:
- coops@lemmy.ml
- opensource@lemmy.ml
I discovered Resonate today, immediately became a member and have been discovering lovely new music all evening.
I quit Spotify a few years ago when I realized that most artists get pennies while a few really big names get enormous payouts.
Seeing an artist and user owned streaming service, completely open sourced under GPL 3.0 and with a thriving community where everything is developed in the open – it really made my day.
Yes, their catalogue is still tiny compared to every other streaming service, but the music I have listened to today is of really good quality. I will still listen to and buy music from other services like Bandcamp, but I became a member of Resonate also because I really want such a service to exist and thrive!
What do you think?
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It’s not open source afaik. I couldn’t find a link to a git repository on their website, had to go on twitter to find a tweet where they had a link. Apparently they open source some of their tools only. https://resonate.github.io/
I know him from my home instance on the fediverse.
maybe https://github.com/resonatecoop
Cool
For the first few listens of a track, the price remains less than a 1 cent in total for the listener. Yet on Resonate, listening to a song only a few times multiplies the artist’s earnings by three to four times compared to the biggest corporate services.
By your sixth listen of a track, its price to play is still less than 10 cents a stream, but the artist is being paid twenty times what they’d be paid on a corporate streaming platform.
Aah there it is. Where did you find it?
click listen at the top of the page and it changes to a .coop website. I suppose the other one is like a landing page. Any way I’m happy this is for real :p
Thank you for recommending this! This is exactly the kind of thing I hope to find on Lemmy.’ I wanted to figure out how much it costs because it’s a little unclear even on the pricing page. But I see it looks like to pay as you stream up to $11.20.
I will say, I love this way of thinking about their catalog:
the explorer
“I want something new every day.”
10€ ($11.20) at Resonate provides around 4 hours of listening a day – 30 days a month – to wander our catalog.
How can you say a catalog is limited when you get 4 hours of new music a day?? It’s a good way of thinking of it.
It doesn’t appear to be FOSS, but they do say under “what’s next”:
How can we support and collaborate with each other, not just between artists and listeners, but across like-minded platforms?