#audiogate

[thebibliosphere]

I’ve talked about this with some friends, but the whole Spotify/audiobook drama legitimately makes me want to cry.

If you are unaware, earlier in the month, Spotify, who now owns FindawayVoices -- an audiobook distributor and one of the only major rivals to Audible on the creator end -- announced that their ToS would be updating.

The ToS updates were horrendous and basically allowed Spotify to make royalty-free translations of our works, as well as create derivatives, and basically just fuck us all over and feed all of our hard work into AI.

The backlash was so swift that less than 12 hours later, Spotify sent out a panicked “Sorry our wording wasn’t clear!” email with a promised update. Less than 24 hours later they issued a statement walking back the changes to the ToS, and have since been pulling a “we never said that, you misread our unclear verbiage” when in reality the verbiage was very clear (Not Spotify trying to pull a “gaslight gatekeep girl boss ✌️”), they just didn't expect to get dragged out into the metaphorical court of social media and get publicly annihilated with authors withdrawing their work from the platform and customers canceling their subscriptions left right and center.

Anyway, the walk back was acceptable enough for me to not feel the need to remove my work entirely from FindAway -- which is good because I would have lost access to the global audiobook market if I had, not to mention global library access. Which, again, is good. A significant chunk of my audiobook earnings comes from Libby, and I’d honestly be lost without that $20 every month. (we get paid quarterly but it breaks out to about $20 a month.)

What the walk back was not good enough for, was for me to trust them to keep streaming Hunger Pangs on their Spotify streaming service. Because quite frankly, I don't trust them not to pull some more ToS bullshit, and this is the part making me want to cry.

Why? Because I’m going through my royalty reports, and for the single month of December 2023 alone, Hunger Pangs was streamed so often it earned $400.

In one month.

That's more than I earn from Audible in a year.

That's more than I earn from kobo, b&n, libby, libro.fm and several author distributors combined in a year.

I’m going to scream.

[fluffyblue-multifandommess]

anyways download all your music and install VLC on your devices babes <3

[kaetrinsmusings]

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Review at AudioGals: Better Hate Than Never by Chloe Liese, narrated by Charlotte North & Stephen Dexter.

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[anonymousredactedconfessions]

"y’ll even complaining about the BA now?" i mean yes it's a confession tumblr, sweetheart lmao. if people wanna complain about why they no longer pay more than the cost of the monthly ad version of all of netflix for one bonus audio a month like who cares (and it wasn't all they complained about if we're talking about the same comment; and if you're talking the person saying some BAs don't feel as gender neutral as they claim to be then come on that feels like a valid concern for a channel that prides itself on gender neutrality even if that feels subjective)

my confession is that it's kinda a good thing that the great september purge happened last year to the channel (and should happen to other sex-heavy asmr channels that don't use age labels). erik had audios that he did not use youtube's built in age-restriction label (which if he had he might have avoided the purge) when he should have--milo getting road head from sweetheart, gavin fingering/giving a handjob to freelancer in the kitchen, vincent and lovely practically fucking in the back of a truck during fireworks and erik wouldn't ever put an age restriction on those videos back then.

for all his rightful concern over minors during october rape audiogate, it was weird asl for him to have audios like that without age restriction on like your of age audience can still watch them easily. i mean the beginnings of a lasko *BDSM* audio with the thumbnail saying 'sextember' and no age restriction was what started it off. i don't think every single audio he got rid of had to go or needed age restriction, but there were others/a lot that clearly had sex acts in them that he would post for minors to see that could have been avoided with youtube's age restriction label and he didn't use it for those back then.

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[thebibliosphere]

I just realized something really heinous about the Spotify announcement.

So, they gave us exactly 30 days' notice to withdraw our work from the new ToS agreement.

Except it can take up to 30 days for them to process that request.

So, if you didn't do it yesterday when it was announced, your work will remain up past the 30-day limit and be considered acceptance of the new ToS.

...

That's evil. And the thing is, they know we don't have anywhere else to go. Even Author's Republic requires me to sign a ToS with Findaway/Spotify (Spotify bought Findaway) to maintain library access.

Oh, I fucking hate it here.

[kaetrinsmusings]

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