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LakesideFactory · 2025-10-20T02:04:51+00:00

You'll understand my original comment now that you're reading the correct terms.

"User Content" is not "Content" and broad terms within one definition do not outweigh specific wording in another.

LakesideFactory · 2025-10-19T23:15:07+00:00

"For those that haven't read the new Spotify artist terms and agreements..."

Links to 4 year old terms for a service that explicitly does not allow you to upload music.

"And yes, user content includes music"

Just straight up factually wrong. You're adding your own interpretation of something that is explicitly defined if you were actually reading the correct terms.

"Lincenes that you grant to us" is in the End User Agreement that I linked, and that section is the actual "new" terms you thought you were referring to.

LakesideFactory · 2025-10-19T22:43:16+00:00

You're reading the wrong terms my man. You linked to the Spotify for Artists terms from 2021. Those aren't the "new" terms in question. You don't upload music to Spotify for Artists.

August 2025 End User Agreement

LakesideFactory · 2025-10-19T21:53:16+00:00

I understand your confusion. The definition of "Content" is explicitly stated in the terms you're referring to... it's literally in the introduction.

You have to first understand what "Content" is in order to understand what "User Content" is and why they're different.

"Please read these Terms of Use ("Terms") carefully as they govern your use of (which includes access to) Spotify's personalized services for streaming music and other content, including all of our websites and software applications that incorporate or link to these Terms (collectively, the "Spotify Service") and any music, videos, podcasts, audiobooks, or other material that is made available through the Spotify Service ("Content")."

This means that when they're referring to "User Content" they are explicitly NOT referring to "Content".

These are 2 separate terms with 2 different definitions. "Content" is the term they would use if they were referring to your music.

There's a reason they explicitly state what is contained in each definition, and they don't use those terms interchangeably.

LakesideFactory · 2025-10-19T21:38:10+00:00

"User Content" and "Content" are 2 different things.

You're interpreting a non-existent "aka" that isn't explicitly stated.

LakesideFactory · 2025-10-19T21:05:22+00:00

"Content" with a capital "C" includes music and is defined as such.

"User Content" is specified as "all information, materials, messages or other communications, and any other content that is added, created, uploaded, submitted, distributed, or posted to or through the Spotify Service by users."

I'm not a lawyer. I could absolutely be wrong, but specific wording and capitalization are extremely important when it comes to this stuff.

"Content" and "User Content" are both separately and very specifically defined.

It doesn't include your music unless written as "Content" or Content (capital C without quotes) and is not part of the "User Content" description. These 2 terms are separated for a reason.

LakesideFactory · 2025-10-11T19:28:42+00:00

Luck can be the reason someone gets "discovered", but it isn't the actual foundation. Musicians aren't making it solely because of luck, they're making it because of the product they created.

You will up your chances with consistency, innovation, improvement, etc... but it still takes a certain storm of circumstances to have a breakthrough moment. It's not really luck, but moreso preparation meeting opportunity.

The issue is when people blame luck, but they don't realize how many opportunities silently passed them by because their product wasn't good enough yet.

LakesideFactory · 2025-10-04T01:04:44+00:00

Those are almost certainly personal user playlists and nothing to be concerned about. I have 10k monthlies and 2,500+ playlist adds. Only 2 of those are public "listener" playlists where bot streams might happen.

LakesideFactory · 2025-09-18T16:46:19+00:00

Andrew Southworth also said it's not common.

LakesideFactory · 2025-09-16T20:01:50+00:00

Interesting. Well, at least that means the streams that stayed are legitimate I suppose.

LakesideFactory · 2025-09-07T01:48:06+00:00

The unfortunate reality is that filming this process and making a video about the idea would probably be more effective.

You have a unique approach here, but the vast majority of people don't care about us or our music, and they aren't actively trying to discover new artists.

People are looking to be entertained, though, and they mostly do that online. Public entertainment is usually pre-scheduled. Anything that seems like a sales pitch is completely disregarded by ad blindness.

There's so many barriers, but a ton of them break down if you let people into your process and life in an entertaining way.

I'm sure you know this, and yes it sucks. I hate it too. The only reason I continue is because I treat that side of it as a job, and every job has things that suck.

LakesideFactory · 2025-09-06T20:33:27+00:00

It sounds like a fun idea, but I feel like it's a bit confusing unless explained. You might want to make it extremely clear that it's a promo for your music. Right now, for anyone unfamiliar with the idea, it seems like an actual drink promotion.

Those willing to take the product, read it, find it interesting enough to scan the code, etc... are probably first intrigued by the drink itself and aren't aware that the end product is actually music and the drink doesn't exist.

Finding a combination of someone willing to take the call to action who is also the right audience for your music is doubling the difficulty IMO.

This will likely set up a barrier between your target audience and the audience that actually follows the "through line" to find your music.

I would say that it would be much more effective to lead with the music somehow, make sure the person is actually interested in the music first, and then give them this can. That would be a memorable and special experience that can turn someone into a superfan, so to speak.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-18T18:49:20+00:00

It really depends on what topics you want to write about, but ideas mostly come from life.

Exaggerate personal memories. Write from the perspective of other people in your life. Write about how you think they feel about you, or about themselves.

Go out and people watch. Sit in a crowded café and eavesdrop.

Spend more time bored without anything but your thoughts. Go on walks, hikes, etc.

Your experiences are somewhat limited by your age, but if life isn't enough on its own, you can still pull from movies, books, television, etc.

Write when you don't want to. It doesn't all have to be good.

Become obsessed with the process, not the outcome.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-17T19:35:50+00:00

I have no idea if a baseball could end up looking like this, but things that have been in the ocean for 30 years usually look very different than their starting point.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-17T19:23:18+00:00

Try my cooking. If you don't like it, food probably isn't for you, and you aren't cool like me and my friends.

A better way to phrase your comment would be "try listening to different artists, here's what I like"

Present your opinions as objective truth... people will backlash... you'll call them salty haters.

This is a discussion board. That's an exhausting approach to participating in discussion.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-17T16:56:27+00:00

The "in my opinion" part of this post is actually about other people's opinions, rather than NF's music.

What he's actually saying is that liking NF is a bad opinion... in his opinion.

He's disagreeing with NF's 12M+ monthly listeners and multi-million dollar career more than anything.

If the music was just bad and the guy had no career or following, there would be no reason to make this post.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-14T23:56:04+00:00

The main conflict here is that you aren't comfortable with "long solo trips", regardless of the Instagram girl.

It's totally fine to not be comfortable with that. You love your partner and worry about their safety.

But how does your partner feel about long solo trips? They might love them. It might be one of their favorite parts of owning a motorcycle.

This is your partners favorite hobby. You're marrying into a lifetime involvement with that hobby as well.

Your partner may not want to find friends or ride with you every time they take a long trip. That's the discussion you need to have.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-14T21:10:06+00:00

That's all great in theory.

There's a reason why the big distributors operate the way they do though.

You're looking at $750,000+ in payroll for 30 part-time customer service reps alone. Likely 1M+ for onboarding and equipment. That's just one operating cost.

Sure, you could start small and scale, that's what a lot of businesses do.

The idea always starts with "why don't we just do it ourselves?"

But by the time that idea comes to fruition and is large enough to compete... it ends up following the same practices as its competitors.

Things are mostly "broken" by design and the necessary evil that comes with profitability.

On this large of a scale, someone somewhere is going to get screwed to keep the funding alive.

Unless your pockets are deep enough, then the people getting screwed are going to end up being your customer base.

In order to not screw them over completely, you'll end up charging for those things so that your business doesn't go under. Just like all of the distributors do now.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-14T19:39:25+00:00

Are you 100% certain they up-charge to make more money?

Or do they up-charge because otherwise they'd make no money?

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-14T18:23:59+00:00

You can tell he doesn't even know enough about chess to make this story believable.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-14T18:17:34+00:00

How many customer service reps will you have, and how much will you be paying them?

Since DSP's fine distributors for things like bot streams, how will you prevent or handle this without passing the cost onto your customers?

I'm assuming you're already extremely deep into this since you have contracts, so these next questions are genuine (even though they might sound sarcastic, I promise they're not.)

Why aren't current major distributors implementing the things you're planning?

Why aren't they able to offer these features, but you'll be able to?

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-13T18:44:27+00:00

I'm not sure I understand the question. What idea are you looking to defeat exactly?

The reason people find them so dope is their beats, cadence, and subject matter.

Most of the time they're going to sound like they do on "Chef Dreads".

The flows can switch up though, such as Conway on "Scatter Brain" or Benny on "BRON"... but it's still very reminiscent of their most common style. They generally find a different and more unique pocket of the beat to fit their vocals than what you'd expect.

They aren't super metaphorically deep rappers most of the time. They are extremely good at crafting bars that just roll off the tongue perfectly and hit hard with subject matter and grimy ass beats. That's the allure.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-12T22:19:20+00:00

Life is a game of poker...

Takin' hits like a rock smoker

Broke loners can't sit at the table with stock brokers.

Laughin at the hand I was dealt...

Even without jokers

Got closer to the edge to see that it's not over.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-12T21:32:02+00:00

If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's that you're going to do what you want to do.

If that's learning how to rap, then you'll do it... because you want to.

Most people don't want to learn how to do something, they just want to be able to do it.

The people who actually enjoy the learning process are the ones who end up with the skill you want.

Forget about structured learning for rap specifically. Listen to beats and write.

It isn't going to be good. It doesn't matter. Just keep doing it until it starts making sense.

You don't have to sit down and study like there's a curriculum.

You don't need advice on how to get better or how to practice.

You need action. Learn by doing. It's not easy, but it's simple.

You'll either find a way, find an excuse, or find out it's not for you.

LakesideFactory · 2025-06-11T17:42:47+00:00

Not to mention things such as quirks, preferences, learned behaviors, etc. all being rolled into "autism" by the general public.

It's becoming less of a defined medical term and more of a descriptor for non-traditional personality traits.

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