What does pay-per-play even mean? IRTFA, and then searched again to see if I missed something for the terms 'start', 'finish', or 'duration'. I did not. I get how crappy it is for musicians to get ahead in the world, but it would be for everyone if we could be open about what the basic unit of currency is in this economy.
Most of the time for my paid Rdio account, I listen to stuff I know I already like. Sometimes I don't, and I don't listen to more than 10-30 seconds of a song. Does that count as a play? Other times I'll go find tons of stuff within the app, but it's still all within Rdio-land.
Also the stuff I stream on Rdio, I already paid for much of it within iTunes, but I prefer to have everything under the same hood. First world problem, I know. Do I get a discount for everything that I bought on vinyl, cassettes, CDs, and mp3s on other formats?
I play thousands of songs each month, should I be paying 1 cent each?
I play thousands of songs each month, should I be paying 1 cent each?
Assuming a song is 3 minutes long on average, and assuming you play 1000 songs (including maybe 1000 others that you didn't like and only listened to for a couple of seconds), that's 50 hours of musical entertainment, which at a penny a song would be $10.
Most of the time for my paid Rdio account, I listen to stuff I know I already like. Sometimes I don't, and I don't listen to more than 10-30 seconds of a song. Does that count as a play? Other times I'll go find tons of stuff within the app, but it's still all within Rdio-land.
Also the stuff I stream on Rdio, I already paid for much of it within iTunes, but I prefer to have everything under the same hood. First world problem, I know. Do I get a discount for everything that I bought on vinyl, cassettes, CDs, and mp3s on other formats?
I play thousands of songs each month, should I be paying 1 cent each?