Your app is living off the work of artists and making it in a way that gives them a way to profit from it costs you nothing, so it is the right thing to do.

Show some merch buying options or display a button that allows you to pay for the music as a thank you to the artists or something. Makes you appear better in front of the crowd that would use bandcamp/soundcloud in the first place (so your core demographic) and supports the artists.

I am listening to music on bandcamp/soundcloud because I love music and this is a place where you can find new interesting music — not because it is free there. And in my experience as someone who sells on bandcamp many listeners share that spirit.

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prmoustache 5 days ago | parent [-]

> Your app is living off the work of artists and making it in a way that gives them a way to profit from it costs you nothing, so it is the right thing to do.

The app just find the music on free sources, probably published by the artists themselves or their agents. How is that living off their work and where do the nuclear developer receive money from the nuclear app users in the process?

	▲	atoav 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		You read "living of" as a monetary value, that isn't what I meant. That particular app is useless without musicians that upload stuff for free, meaning the fact that musicians do that is of existential importance for it. And that means such an app enters a certain relationship with these musicians. This relationship can be symbiotic (good) or parasitic (bad).