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The artist and user owned music streaming service that is everything Spotify is not: Resonate (resonate.is)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

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/

PS. Just want to point out the acc joined 3h ago and this is their first post, 1h ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Aah there it is. Where did you find it?

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