On this thread: https://piefed.social/post/1243539 one of the main points of contention is about the tension between how spotify pays artists very little, but piracy doesn’t, on it’s own, pay them at all.

I’m a heavy user of bandcamp, but i know that it has strengths and weaknesses: it’s great for finding independent artists and small labels, but it doesnt have a big catalog for popular tracks.

Do people have experience with other sources for purchasing? What about https://us.7digital.com/ ?

Specifically for self hosting, is there a way to streamline purchases from sites like these into lidarr? If not, is there an automated solution for (1) uncompressing a downloaded archive file from a purchase, then (2) making it conform to a file/folder organizational structure, and (3) having navidrome, jellyfin, etc import it?

Just trying to find workable ideas for owning music and getting artists most of the money.

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
    72·
    21 hours ago

    I have been using mp3va.com for some time, the price per track is mad cheap. Im not saying its fully legal (https://www.mp3va.com/help#q42_0) but if pay someone for my music then I feel a bit better about it.

    If what you want is on bandcamp then get it from there, as has already been said its the little guys that need your money. The big artists already have millions.

    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      You feel better if you just give some change to whomever, even if your favorite artists get didly squat… 🙄

      mp3va.com has been listed in U.S. Trade Representative annual reports as being unauthorized to sell music. Legal experts have explicitly stated that while MP3VA claims to operate legally under Ukrainian copyright laws, “it is not legal for them to sell this music in the United States”.

      The site operates from Ukraine with Russian IP addresses, and security analysis tools give it an “extremely low” trust score. One security review describes it as "a pirate website from Russia engaged in the selling of digital downloads without licensing or distribution agreements from record labels.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        15 hours ago

        mp3va.com has been listed in U.S. Trade Representative annual reports as being unauthorized to sell music. Legal experts have explicitly stated that while MP3VA claims to operate legally under Ukrainian copyright laws, “it is not legal for them to sell this music in the United States”.

        I’ve never used the site, but there seems to be an argument here regarding moral law and legalities within the United States.

        But the site claims that:

        Service www.Mp3va.com pays full-scale author’s royalties to owners of pieces of music, trademarks, names, slogans and other copyright objects used on the site.

        If that’s the case, I think the OP should feel good about it.

        Buying off a site like them likely pays out more per user than listening to the same songs on a streaming platform.