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Music From KQED From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum, Spotify was originally marketed as a democratic anti-establishment music streaming platform. But according to journalist Liz Pelly, it has become a system favoring major labels and its own algorithmic playlists, all while underpaying independent artists.

Peli draws on interviews with former Spotify

employees, music industry veterans, and artists to pull back the curtain on the music streaming

giant in her new book, Mood Machine, The Rise of Spotify, and the Cost of the Perfect

Playlist. We listen back to our January conversation next on Forum.

Music back to our January conversation next on Forum. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. As music has become increasingly, quote, playlisted,

personalized, and auto-played.

In other words, the Spotify model, how has it affected artists as well as listeners?

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