paying for music and films

jimboo1212

I use blogs and downloads to listen to artists and then I buy the product. 10 - 20% of royalties split 4 ways is hardly fair on the makers and performers.Everybody and his dog rips off the artist every chance they get. You could help by reducing what you take considering you play no part in the creative process.

CKhalvashi

jimboo1212 wrote: »

And that is it in a nutshell , protect your side of the deal not the artist. We both know who makes the bucks on the average deal don't we ? Any contract treats the artist as a commodity and the same with their art. You take from the artist and bleat when your cut is damaged.

Average artist payout for us is IRO 60%, and well over 20% of our turnover is gone directly to staffing, before other costs.

'Average' is something I don't do, and certainly don't agree with.

CK

arthurwellsley

I want to buy a paid for music service.
I want it to play on a home Sonos.
I want it to play on 6 iphones.
I want it to play on 3 ipads.
I want it to play on 4 computers.

Yes there are 7 of us in the household. So there is a very wide range of musical choice between us.

Should I buy a subscription for beats, itunes or Spotify or some other provider?

Which provider has the best apps?
Which provider has the best choice in music?
Which provider offers the best value for money?

Thoughts and advice please.

Jessica.langlands

Also have this issue and would equally appreciate some advice!

jimboo1212

I am glad to hear that , what do you do for your clients exactly? (genuinely interested)

silentkiller

Spotify is good for a radio but it's really expensive to use as a long term music programme (to me anyway) as its like £15 or something a month (or 9.99, I can't remember) and it's simpler to get youtube music onto a playlist in Itunes but anyway...

Not heard of beats but will check it out. Itunes is not in the same league as the others as it is not really somewhere you can draw music from (unless you mean on an individual album/single basis which would end up costing a fortune) so it's good to organise music but not to buy from (I don't think so anyway)..

Napster and Pandora used to be good but I believe they've taken them out of use in UK... Hopefully some other people reply with more links as I was looking for a similar music player the other week and gave up.

Imdaewen

That is a lot of devices you wish to access it from, you may wish to check each services device limit before committing.

silentkiller

I checked beats and the only site I could find says its £9.99 per person up to 3 devices.

raquelbuzz

itunes is a download service and you pay for what you want. the others all are you can consume subscription services

beats - not live yet in the uk. us only.

spotify, deezer and napster - £9.99 per month
all have pretty much the same catalogues which span all genres. work with sonos. sync offline to mobile devices but none will cover as many devices as listed below.

spotify is more 'social' and playlist focused.
napster slightly older demographic
deezer remembers what you like and recommends around this

avoid the free tiers (deezer/spotify) as you cannot play on demand

apps - if you mean apps within the service the answer is spotify who have a number of recommendation tools including the guardian, pitchfork and playlist generators eg filtr
if you mean iphone/android app then all of the above have these

i would suggest signing up for a trial of all and trying them out.

i'm new to the forum to respond to this q but please follow up if you have any other questions. happy to help.

lordsmiff

There's also Google Play Music which will play all your music from the cloud (it can import iTunes music collections and upload where needed) and that's free (not sure about simultaneous streams though) and there is a premium bit (all access I think it's called) that's the same price as spotify for similar functionality.

The downside is though that both google and spotify will only stream to one device at a time.

With the free google service though, you could each have your own account.

Similarly, spotify is free on desktop and mobile now but has the occasional ad and no caching (meaning no playback if your phone has no signal for example).

So far, I like Spotify's interface more...just trying to work out if I should pay for it though or stick with free...

Hope this helps.
Smiffy.