CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@gsuberland yeppppp, one of the messiest, most frustrating-for-no-good-reason issues with shell scripting imo

@forestine @JoscelynTransient i’ve heard distrokid straight up won’t let you opt out of spotify, but i don’t have any personal experience there… i imagine it’d be simpler with a distributor that isn’t captured by spotify though

@JoscelynTransient @forestine i don’t know how much deviation there is between qobuz’s streaming and their purchase catalogs, but that’s where i always go to buy stuff that isn’t on bandcamp. major label releases (at least, the ones i care about, ymmv of course) are always there, and i know they’re partnered with the big distributors so most stuff ends up there unless an artist has specifically opted out.

@forestine also the distribution service that folks are likely to know if they only know of one is partially owned by spotify and really seems to prioritize that partnership — the worst possible one for artists — from what i’ve heard.