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#SpotifyWrapped

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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

And here it is! This year's earworm statistics.

As I mentioned before, I keep a list of songs that are stuck in my head every morning. At the end of the year, I look back, crunch some numbers, and review the Top 10. And I share it, just for fun.

Read here:
multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com

Is anyone else doing this? It is like an internal #SpotifyWrapped 😄

multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com338 earwormsThis was my 6th year noting the songs stuck in my head every morning, and once again, here are the statistics. This is my own internal versi...
#music#earworm#TuneTuesday
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iFixit

Spotify killed the Car Thing, but they don't have to die! When a company like Spotify decides to generate huge amounts of unnecessary e-waste, the community steps in to save them from the landfill.

Image credits:
DeskThing (Dammit Jeff on YouTube)
GlanceThing (GlanceThing on GitHub)

Mobile music player app interface, with the song playing called "My life is "Wrapped" up" by "Spotify Car Thing." The song art shows a Spotify Car Thing mounted to a dashboard of a car driving down the road, and on the Car Thing it says "Car Thing is discontinued and no longer operational" on a white background. Underneath the song art and title/artist is a playhead with shuffle, previous song, play, next song, and loop. Under that is the iFixit logo in the bottom left corner and "What happened" in the bottom right, with a blue arrow pointing to the right.
Image of Spotify Car Thing at the top, with a generic Spotify interface showing Playlists, specifically Liked Songs, Indie Roadtrip, and Jazz Vibes. Below the image it reads: The Spotify Car Thing was released in 2022. Earlier this year, Spotify decided to deactivate the product and told customers to "safely dispose of your device following local electronic waste guidelines." December 9, 2024, marks the official death of the very short-lived product. However, many of its users have found ways to repurpose the Car Thing—let's take a look at a couple! Underneath the text is the iFixit logo in the bottom left corner, and "See more" with a blue arrow pointing to the right in the bottom right corner.
Photo showing someone using a Spotify Car Thing that is sitting in a desk holder instead of mounted to a dashboard. On the screen is the song "She Said" with the same track controls as the first slide underneath. On the left side of the screen there is a volume slider, which corresponds to a hand that is visibly adjusting the volume dial on the Car Thing. Under the image is the caption: Desk Thing is an open-source software that aims to not only extend the life of the Car Thing, but also adds new features. It doesn't require a Bluetooth connection, supports local audio (letting you use music apps other than Spotify), and integrates weather reporting. Underneath the caption is the iFixit logo in the bottom left corner, and "See more" with a blue arrow pointing to the right in the bottom right corner.
Image at the top showing a Car Thing render with a distinctly different interface from Spotify. It has the time and date in the top left of its screen, with a music interface (track art/title/artist/previous track/pause/next track/playhead) below it. In the top right of the screen, it shows apps like Firefox, and another section below it that shows a lock icon with text saying "Lock" below it. The text below the image reads: GlanceThing is another open-source project that breathes new life into the Car Thing. It connects to a desktop companion app to enable music controls, app shortcuts, command actions, and a status bar displaying the date and time. These are both awesome ways to save the Car Thing from the landfill. If you own one, make sure you get your refund from Spotify before January 14, 2025. Happy hacking! Below the text is the iFixit logo in the bottom left corner, and "Links below" with an arrow pointing down in the bottom right corner.
#spotify#SpotifyWrapped#ifixit
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Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

As suspected, Spotify is using generic stock Muzak bought from production libraries so they don’t have to pay royalties to artists.

Not surprised, since CEO Daniel Ek refers to music as “content” and thinks it takes little effort to create. 🙄

This is one of the ways “content” hurts the arts and severs the relationship between artists & their audience.

harpers.org/archive/2025/01/th

In a Slack channel dedicated to discussing the ethics of streaming, Spotify’s own employees debated the fairness of the PFC program. “I wonder how much these plays ‘steal’ from actual ’normal’ artists,” one employee asked. And yet as far as the public was concerned, the company had gone to great lengths to keep the initiative under wraps. Perhaps Spotify understood the stakes—that when it removed real classical, jazz, and ambient artists from popular playlists and replaced them with low-budget stock muzak, it was steamrolling real music cultures, actual traditions within which artists were trying to make a living. Or perhaps the company was aware that this project to cheapen music contradicted so many of the ideals upon which its brand had been built. Spotify had long marketed itself as the ultimate platform for discovery—and who was going to get excited about “discovering” a bunch of stock music?
Artists had been sold the idea that streaming was the ultimate meritocracy—that the best would rise to the top because users voted by listening. But the PFC program undermined all this. PFC was not the only way in which Spotify deliberately and covertly manipulated programming to favor content that improved its margins, but it was the most immediately galling. Nor was the problem simply a matter of “authenticity” in music. It was a matter of survival for actual artists, of musicians having the ability to earn a living on one of the largest platforms for music. PFC was irrefutable proof that Spotify rigged its system against musicians who knew their worth. In 2023, on a summer afternoon in Brooklyn, I met up with a jazz musician in a park. We talked about the recent shows we had seen, our favorite and least favorite venues, the respective pockets of the New York music scene we moved through. He spoke passionately about his friends’ music and his most cherished performance spaces
#Spotify#IndieMusic#MusicBusiness
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Morgan ⚧️

Btw there's another reason not to share #SpotifyWrapped this year in particular: they're straight up fucking lying lmao tiktok.com/t/ZTYfXQDHo/ I bet not a single indie artist is gonna show up because they want as many as possible to stay under the threshold to get paid whatsoever!

That being said *please* talk about the music you like! Tell us who your favorite artists and songs are! My top artists this year have prolly been Leanna Firestone and Bo Burnham lol

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