Resonate – the ethical music streaming co-op
resonate.is
Resonate is a streaming music service cooperative owned by the people that use it – musicians, indie labels, fans + developers. Stream it until you own it.

I discovered Resonate today, immediately became a member and have been discovering lovely new music all evening.

I quit Spotify a few years ago when I realized that most artists get pennies while a few really big names get enormous payouts.

Seeing an artist and user owned streaming service, completely open sourced under GPL 3.0 and with a thriving community where everything is developed in the open – it really made my day.

Yes, their catalogue is still tiny compared to every other streaming service, but the music I have listened to today is of really good quality. I will still listen to and buy music from other services like Bandcamp, but I became a member of Resonate also because I really want such a service to exist and thrive!

What do you think?

  • mekhos
    9•2 years ago

    maybe https://github.com/resonatecoop

    Cool

    For the first few listens of a track, the price remains less than a 1 cent in total for the listener. Yet on Resonate, listening to a song only a few times multiplies the artist’s earnings by three to four times compared to the biggest corporate services.

    By your sixth listen of a track, its price to play is still less than 10 cents a stream, but the artist is being paid twenty times what they’d be paid on a corporate streaming platform.

    • @0x00cl
      3•2 years ago

      Aah there it is. Where did you find it?

      • mekhos
        4•2 years ago

        click listen at the top of the page and it changes to a .coop website. I suppose the other one is like a landing page. Any way I’m happy this is for real :p