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Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify

> Sleepify is an album by the American funk band Vulfpeck, released March 2014. The release consists solely of ten roughly 30-second-long tracks of silence. The album was made available on the music streaming service Spotify, where the band encouraged consumers to play the album on a loop while they slept. In turn, royalties from the playing of each track on the "album" were to be used to crowdfund a free concert tour by the band.

They basically took advantage of how Spotify royalty calculation worked and ended up making $20k off of it, which did then get used to fund a small free admission tour of the US.




Guess that explains why Spotify hit hard on white noise over time. Can't advertise to sleeping users (...Yet).




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