@magela @chris

#TidalRising and #DirectArtistPayout ran indeed concurrently until #DAP was scraped and TidalRising was adapted.

I liked to (have at least the illusion to) influence my artist payouts directly and transparently via my most listened artists list.

Now it is sort of a curated payout. TidalRising's payout mechanism became intransparent to me as a consumer. I can't no longer "vote" via my individual streams where my major payout money goes to except into the large bucket which #Tidal then empties on artists of their choice.

https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/13866139989009-Direct-Artist-Payout-Transition-

There's also an article about that at Tech Crunch https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/tidal-will-cut-direct-artist-payout-program-to-invest-more-in-emerging-artists

@chris @magela

We used to have a "Plus" subscription because of the high payouts, namely because of the direct artists payout (DAP) program, which depending on your individual streams payed a fixed sum (I think that was 3€) of your subscription fee directly to your most listened to artist and the rest of your subscriptipn fee that was set for payout was payed to artists relative to your own individual streams.

When #Tidal scraped their DAP schema in spring 2023, we downgraded to normal subscription. 🤷‍♂️

#TidalRising as a replacement for DAP is not good enough for us, because our individual streaming habits do no longer influence where the major share of our subscription fee payouts go to.