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by knaught 27d ago
Interesting, would you mind sharing the album? There might be some weirdness with album searching with our latest updates.
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by knaught 27d ago
We're back now, give it a whirl!
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by knaught 27d ago
Apologies for the delay, we're back now!
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by knaught 27d ago
Right? They have the real numbers, they just purposefully obfuscate it.
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by knaught 27d ago
Spotify is throttling us very hard right now. Check back tomorrow, you should most definitely look that artist up.
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by knaught 27d ago
I apologize for jumping to that so quickly. I respect your response, and you're correct. There is a lot of nuance to this. It's a best estimate because we don't have all of the information, how much is on Spotify vs other pla
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by knaught 27d ago
Music is broken down into two copyrights: Masters and Publishing. Masters is the recording themselves, made by recording artists, distributed by record labels and distributors (DistoKid, TuneCore, CD Baby, etc.) Publishing is the "work
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by knaught 27d ago
We just added more capacity, and are adding even more here in a bit.
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by knaught 27d ago
Appreciate it, we blew through 250K tracks in an hour, the HN hug is real. We have added more capacity.
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by knaught 27d ago
Thanks for letting me know, I'm checking the logs now.
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by knaught 27d ago
When the Music Modernization Act passed in 2018... all US digital streaming mechanical royalties we're just held until the MLC was operational in 2021. So this is money owed from 2018 through 2026, it adds up.
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by knaught 27d ago
I bet you're a blast at parties. Everything about this is publicly verifiable.
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by knaught 27d ago
Excellent point, I'll fix that.
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by knaught 27d ago
Amazing! The only stream count we can find that is publicly available is Spotify, so we use it as a reference point in our calculation, and it's why we give a range. If they have heavy plays on a different streaming platform like Apple
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by knaught 27d ago
I agree with you that pro-rata streaming royalties are not ideal. DSPs like Deezer do have 'artist centric' royalty systems, which I think are great. That being said, the MLC has been holding this money for 6 years, and by law (Th
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by knaught 27d ago
The code behind this is a whole AWS stack built as part of our larger infrastructure. It's not just a simple script, it's a full data pipeline. The MLC data is ~400GB of raw TSV data dropped on an FTP server every week, which we t
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Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours(pub.doub.ly)
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by knaught 14y ago
We currently have a prototype of Loom running in HTML5 via WebGL and emscripten. We also have a much earlier version of Loom running under Flash Player using FlasCC. We could also potentially target NaCL in Chrome. Each option has its posit
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by knaught 14y ago
The Engine Company is a small company (5 of us) based in Eugene, OR. We are self funded so we don't have any VCs that we have to please. We feel our licensing terms are very fair: http://theengine.co/license
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by knaught 14y ago
Haha.. good catch. Already have submitted a pull request with the fix for it. Cheers!