Resonate is a streaming music service cooperative owned by the people that use it – musicians, indie labels, fans + developers. Stream it until you own it.

Resonate is a really cool co-op and they could really use some volunteers & users.

I’ve been looking for a more ethical music streaming service since I discovered Spotify and other streaming platforms are terrible for small artists. Only the top 3% of artists make $1000/yr and only the top 1% make more than $5000/yr. You’d have to be in the top 0.2% to actually earn a living of $50,000/yr on Spotify.

Resonate is the only platform I’ve found that’s doing something radically different. They have a stream to own model in which listeners pay artists directly about 1/4 of one cent for their first stream then the price increases exponentially with each stream until the 9th stream at which point the listener has paid ~$1.50usd. At that point the user can download the song for offline listening and never has to pay to stream that song again.

Perhaps the coolest part is they are a co-op, 45% of governance weight is reserved for artist shares, 35% for listener shares, and only 20% for staff.

Resonate is a small project that could use all the help it can get. If anyone knows of any other cool music platforms, I’d love to know about them, too!

  • oshitwaddup@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    Buying a song or album without knowing if you’ll like it is a big risk, and it’s tough to find music listening to radio especially since an algorithm can give you way better, more niche/personalized suggestions without ads. And streaming allows you to have a huge library of all the unique songs you’ve found without having to pay 1000s of dollars, hours of time finding and buying all the albums you want, and then finding a way to store them all

    Reposting this comment cause i though my comment got posted twice but i think it was just a glitch on my lemmy client

    • Emberleaf@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      Every online music store I’ve ever used has allowed me to listen to at least a 30 second clip of the song I’m interested in before I buy it. There’s no risk there. I dunno, I’m still not convinced. But anyway, don’t mean to hijack the thread or anything. Carry on, citizens! :)

      • youngbrett@lemmy.ml
        5·
        3 years ago

        Not only that, but the best online store to buy music from (Bandcamp) generally will let you listen to entire songs, if not the entire album before purchasing.

          • youngbrett@lemmy.ml
            5·
            3 years ago

            I own… a lot of music on bandcamp haha:

            I stopped paying for streaming services a looong while back and now I just buy things on bandcamp (or elsewhere if unavailable on bandcamp) and put it all on my plex server.

            • Emberleaf@lemmy.ml
              4·
              3 years ago

              Heck yeah, dude. I just discovered them about a year ago and I’ve been finding so many new artists that I absolutely love. I have nowhere near the amount you do, but I’m definitely happy with what I have and the service itself. :)

      • oshitwaddup@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        Very true, i guess for me a lot of my favorite songs i diin’t even like that much the first time i heard them. There’s a big difference for me between listening to a song to see if i’d buy it and just listening to a song while chilling or driving or working or whatever. I wish i was different though, i’d much rather be able to comfortably use bandcamp or resonate or something than spotify