Oddbean

I have no interest in last.fm Time would be better spent learning about the independent musicians currently revolutionizing the music industry. Look at lnbeats.com for examples of great independent music. Learn about value for value and how it is being applied to music. value4value.info v4vmusic.com Use a modern podcast app such as fountain.fm and directly support musicians. Check out some v4v music shows on lnbeats. We are slowly eroding the parasitic music industry and bringing sovereignty back to the artists, where it belongs.

We’re all aligned on this. The goal of creating an open music graph is to remove all barriers between artists and audience. It’s the anti last.fm. Same for Spotify, YouTube, etc…. No intermediaries. What Erik created was just a cool proof of concept to funnel data out of that system, to set it free. The kind 2002 event type can be published by any client. Another vision I have personally….. we should be empowering audiences to own the media they purchase. The problem I see with V4V is I don’t want to lease my music through something which is effectively subscriptions by another name. I would rather see a decentralized Bandcamp, where I can buy something, and I can own it. I don’t need access to an infinite library, I don’t have infinite time.

Agreed. Already working on another extension that I'm calling `window.scrobble`, so any client can just hook into that to publish the scrobble event. Bridging existing data out of walled gardens is just one piece. I also agree on the "streaming by another name". I want to just own my music and pay you for it one time.