"This isn’t so much of an issue for established artists producing studio releases, but it does undermine Funkwhale’s long-underserved secondary community: independent musicians on the Fediverse. While producing MusicBrainz data for a track isn’t necessarily hard, it can be extremely time-consuming, and brings friction to a simple process like uploading your own music."
@news, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/funkwhale-filter/
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I'm envisioning a AP-enabled digital music platform that allows me to display a collection of recordings I've paid for. Not only would the artists get my money, but their records would be endorsed to my social network as music worth paying for, so at least worth a listen.
What I get out of it, as well as the warm fuzzies of giving financial support to artists I like, is the satisfaction of building and sharing a record collection. Without having to own physical media.
@strypey Sounds like something #funkwhale could do. I've seen a mention of Stripe in a recent PieFed toot. Maybe there's going to be more of a paywalled federation at some point, or the protocol can guarantee that I'm sharing my 5 allowed private copies for music media (EU, DE)?