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Compensation structure

I read your FAQ on compensation structure, and frequently listen to music on rdio, even if I own it on mp3 or other format both for convenience and in hopes that the artists do in fact continue to get compensated for my patronage, but I think "by popularity" is vague and would like to know more about it.

I ask specifically because you seem to tally popularity by song-listens, which it would seem to me, if that were the sole popularity structure, would unfairly benefit pop music with short songs over any other form that might lean torwards longer extended songs. Maybe that is just the presentation layer, and you rank payment-popularity on number of bits streamed, but if you do it only by songs, that would reward any artist with a regular 12-song album (listened all the way through once) the same credits as Cecil Taylor's 2 T's for a Lovely T (12 songs but 10 cds long).

I Have no illusions that modern classical will ever get as many listens as the latest M83 album, but I would hate to see them get even more of the short shrift by weighted measures.