Hearing Things has quit Spotify:

Our values as a publication—pro-worker, pro-artist, pro-active listening, anti-villainous corporations—did not align with many of Spotify’s actions and policies.

I learned a couple new things via this article too. The book they reference, Mood Machine, sounds fascinating. It’s on my to-read list. Also, I didn’t know this:

In April 2024, Spotify enacted a new policy that denied royalties to songs that collected less than 1,000 streams, causing artists to wonder what would stop the company from arbitrarily increasing that number in the future.

Gross.