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As a final notice from us: Spotify has started to shadow-ban artists. Since Streaming Month of February, they set the payout per stream to zero if they recognize streaming fraud. It happened to multiple artists across different uploaders (Distrokid / RecordJet) where we see all the expected...

To which question do you answer?

Has anyone already received the Streaming Month of February in the Distrokid bank?

Do you have sources which found your statement that streams from speaker-style devices do not count financially?

Did you stream on the same six tracks for all family accounts?

I have a custom build solution which is using large, international VPN providers to hide all traffic. VPN providers are not shady itself, if used correctly. Normal people also use VPN providers, therefore Spotify cannot just ban all users coming from VPNs. Business Proxy IPs are a direct red...

I don't use proxies because the way my business case works is with lot of automation, scale-out and therefore several terabytes of traffic each month. Too costly for business proxy networks and impossible to route through 4G proxies without getting in troubles by the ISP. But in the past I was...

tbh I haven't tried yet in my production farm, just in my development. My farm automatically uses the password reset link to set a new password. I can report back when I've implemented it. But it should be possible, because my personal spotify session in the browser doesn't change weekly and I...

How do they pay out? Paypal or Bank Withdrawl - both? I remember this page layout. In the depths of the Internet, there is a whitelabel distributor offering by a company. You can basically be your own distrokid and brand the website, but the main elements (like the stright Anti-Fraud policy)...

Keep track of the session cookie in the Browser, this way you can stay logged-in throughout IP changes.

Thanks, this matches my observation

Have you also experienced the situation that Spotify detects your bot streaming, keeps you online but doesn't pay out royalties? (like Shadow-banning)

The game is still on, but the Distributors have increased the challenges to upload music. Additionally, Spotify triggered a larger takedown in January and Distrokid claims that Spotify was it. However, we've had several other distributor who kept the music up and we have streamed all music...

I would recommend you to use puppeteer which, at the very bottom, is nothing more than browser automation. With the right services you can stream any platform with browser-based listening. Combine that with a cheap root server offering (e.g. Hetzner) and there you go