Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist - Liz Pelly
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Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
Release date: 01-07-25
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike.
Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.
Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music and the rise of new payola-like practices.
For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about and listen to music.
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This post has 6 comments
January 31st, 2025
I heard it from a fried that he finally decided to put all his CD’s and player into storage. He set himself a task of building his own music repo. With the help of sharers and music bee he now (after a month) has 3.42TB of music. It will take him 5 lifetimes to listen to everything and he is not beholden to any Spotify etc. Not as pretty as Spotify but out of their clutches.
February 1st, 2025
Markje,
Your friend just stopped using CD’s? does he live in a 3rd world country? I haven’t used a CD in like 15 years, lol.
How does having 3 TB’s of music replace spotify? I have probably double that in archives, mostly lossless FLAC copies, but I’ll probably never use it, unless armageddon happens.
I have to say Spotify has the best intuitive playlist maker.
February 2nd, 2025
Thank you!
February 3rd, 2025
The author Liz Pelly also has a great cover story in the Jan 2025 Harper’s about Spotify paying Muzak-like companies (who produce bland recordings for advertising etc) and workaday musicians to generate cheap & simple music purposely designed to cater to certain playlist trends. The music is then uploaded to Spotify with fabricated band names, musician names, and even appealing histories of individual band members — yet it’s all fiction, and Spotify pays nobody any royalties for these products.
To my knowledge, Apple Music does not do this, and in my experience, people who are interested in listening to whole albums are better served by Apple Music. (Btw, I am no fan of Apple as a company, which created a corporate image for itself just as fake cool as the phony band descriptions created by Spotify)
February 25th, 2025
thank youuu! i was searching for it
March 11th, 2025
spotify, apple music,streaming services etc…the worst thing to happen to musicians, artists and the music biz…
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