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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/81992

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!

https://github.com/resonatecoop/stream

  • Jeffrey@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    If you’re interested in helping get more content onto Resonate consider joining the upload crew, and you can reach out to artists directly to encourage / help them put their music on Resonate. Most artists I’ve met love to hear from their fans, and are eager to share their music pretty much anywhere if they know someone is listening there.

    Right now resonate is in the middle of a full-stack rebuild. It is currently pretty labor intensive for new music to be added to the platform (about 10 min per track/album) and uploading is done entirely by volunteers. When Resonate’s new platform is rolled out it is supposed to be significantly easier and faster to add new content.

    Resonate is open to hosting music from big labels, but it is uncertain if labels will be interested in working with Resonate. Hypothetically, even if a big label wanted their music on Resonate right now the co-op is limited by its IT stack; it would take tens of thousands of volunteer hours to get all that music uploaded with the current workflow. My understanding is that once the full-stack rebuild is complete then the focus will shift to growth. In the meantime growth is still good especially if new listeners contribute funds and choose to volunteer!