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In 2023, I wrote a sci-fi rock song about a corporate-controlled A.I. that erased all the original blues men and women. It also got pissy if you insisted Robert Johnson (and others) existed.
Crazy? Right?
The Apple Music Link to the album version of “Welcome to the Truthatorium A.I.”
https://music.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-the-truthatorium-a-i-album-edit/1738797873
@pomCountyIrregs I like using this link sharing for songs. Cuz it's got all the streaming services. https://song.link/us/i/1714900604
@frigginglorious @pomCountyIrregs Interestingly I don't boost song.link links for three reasons:
[a] they require an extra click before you can hear the song (as opposed to going directly to a page where you can listen),
[b] sometimes they only include streaming services you have to sign up for before listening, and
[c] for those of us with privacy plugins in our browser, the song.link page itself can take over a minute to load.
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@frigginglorious @pomCountyIrregs I also won't boost links to exploitative sites: Facebook, Spotify, Google pages, etc.
I always boost links which embed the song directly in the Mastodon message (eg Mirlo, Bandcamp, Soundcloud etc).
I usually boost links to pages where the listener can hear the song immediately without signing up (eg Faircamp, Ampwall, personal websites etc).
I realise this makes me a pedant. If song.link and similar services work for you, fair enough I guess.
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@elsemusic@musician.social - no, you are doing it exactly right! Best kind of pedantism there is!
Thank you!
@frigginglorious@freeradical.zone @pomCountyIrregs@mstdn.social
@herr_irrtum @pomCountyIrregs @elsemusic I have a hard disagree on this stance! That apple music link only let's me listen to snippets of songs. Songs aren't meant to be algorithmically edited!
Granted, song.link doesn't find bandcamp/faircamp links automatically - I think that has something to do with using a kind of ISBN number with your tracks when u upload them?
But it's super privacy friendly. They even use youtube-nocookie domain for embedded videos.
@frigginglorious @herr_irrtum @elsemusic
I split up my links between Bandcamp and Apple Music. Not everyone can use Apple Music, that’s true, but it is the second largest. The largest streamer I shall not name. This would have been there.
Any way, exploitative or not, my music is at a streamer because I let it be there. Any one who has reasons to not go some where, it’s okay by me.
With all true respect, I’m unlikely to change my methods, but I will note concerns for future considerations.
@pomCountyIrregs @frigginglorious @herr_irrtum I think you have to take what you believe to be the best approach.