Japan is a terrible example for you, they are focused on ditching the US.

Hang on, they used a computer to help them create the post content?! Outrageous.

What about Etched? https://techfundingnews.com/nvidia-rival-ai-chip-maker-etche...

I think Bandcamp could do with a simple way to just pay artists money. There is that "name your price" thing but it's a bodge.

Has that not already happened? Spotify recently broke streaming on a load of AVRs following the Anna's Archive release, I'd have thought this hardware would have suffered the same fate.

Because it's a complete waste of bandwidth.

Tidal seems less obsessed with breaking everything all the time. They have a decent API and while they want you to use their playback SDKs, they're relatively less hostile to the various 3rd-party playback libraries (they don't actually encrypt their media, so once you have a valid bearer token you've got everything). I've not tried their Tidal Connect solution but I have heard it's a bit rubbish.

I believe that changed recently and Spotify started blocking the key requests from free accounts.

Then how do people with free accounts listen to music lol

(It is plausible they added some new DRM but it's not going to be anything too crazy)

Their official clients have moved over to playplay DRM protection for non-lossless files too. The old key endpoints no longer work for free accounts, they must have added a server-side check.

I thought they started producing their own podcasts. Can't bring in much though.

260+ million songs they don't own vs a dozen or so podcasts

They also have fake artists they put on playlists :P

Yes, but it's still the required correction to your claim. I actually don't know how many podcasts are using their publishing platform. I imagine it's considerably more than a dozen.

They want to own something but it's always going to be a drop in the ocean. They have a small new music label thing called RADAR but I imagine the failure rate on that is very high. They need to buy a label if they want to meaningfully change this. Just like Amazon now owns MGM and Netflix maybe getting Warner Bros. Presumably they can't afford to do this, and I don't think that integration would work as well in the music industry.

It's called playplay. It's used for protecting their new lossless files. But the first rule of playplay is you can't talk about playplay. https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-dismantles-spotifydl-track-...