Glenn McDonald

And the amazing truth is the system that the whole music business runs on is like orders of magnitude less sophisticated than that.

everything gets to streaming services via distributors and those distributors send giant bulk files audio with xml metadata and artists can be identified with unique ids but don't have to be and thus, especially from indie distributors, are often just referred to by name.

everything gets to streaming services via distributors and those distributors send giant bulk files audio with xml metadata and artists can be identified with unique ids but don't have to be and thus, especially from indie distributors, are often just referred to by name.

everything gets to streaming services via distributors and those distributors send giant bulk files audio with xml metadata and artists can be identified with unique ids but don't have to be and thus, especially from indie distributors, are often just referred to by name.

So Spotify probably gets a thousand files a day that have names that just say the artist's name is Cake, or just like a thousand short common word names, and then has to figure out, okay, of all the artists named Cake, of which there are probably a hundred, which one is this?

So Spotify probably gets a thousand files a day that have names that just say the artist's name is Cake, or just like a thousand short common word names, and then has to figure out, okay, of all the artists named Cake, of which there are probably a hundred, which one is this?

So Spotify probably gets a thousand files a day that have names that just say the artist's name is Cake, or just like a thousand short common word names, and then has to figure out, okay, of all the artists named Cake, of which there are probably a hundred, which one is this?

Got it. There's a giant trust system that controls all of this and is trivially abused. or accidentally abused. And so when I was still at Spotify, I spent quite a bit of energy that I honestly didn't want to spend trying to guard against this, making tools that would look at the week's upcoming releases and look at patterns of, oh, that's funny.

Got it. There's a giant trust system that controls all of this and is trivially abused. or accidentally abused. And so when I was still at Spotify, I spent quite a bit of energy that I honestly didn't want to spend trying to guard against this, making tools that would look at the week's upcoming releases and look at patterns of, oh, that's funny.

Got it. There's a giant trust system that controls all of this and is trivially abused. or accidentally abused. And so when I was still at Spotify, I spent quite a bit of energy that I honestly didn't want to spend trying to guard against this, making tools that would look at the week's upcoming releases and look at patterns of, oh, that's funny.

Cake has never had a release from that distributor before.

Cake has never had a release from that distributor before.

Cake has never had a release from that distributor before.

These things are easy to fix individually.

These things are easy to fix individually.

These things are easy to fix individually.

So as soon as it happens, people will begin complaining, and those complaints will eventually irritate somebody enough to spend the 30 seconds it takes to move that supposed cake song onto cake number 93.

So as soon as it happens, people will begin complaining, and those complaints will eventually irritate somebody enough to spend the 30 seconds it takes to move that supposed cake song onto cake number 93.

So as soon as it happens, people will begin complaining, and those complaints will eventually irritate somebody enough to spend the 30 seconds it takes to move that supposed cake song onto cake number 93.