Month: August 2026

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Open-Source Music Players in 2026: From Feishin to Spotube

There has never been a stranger time to love recorded music. The major streaming platforms have never been more convenient, more algorithmically fluent, or more comprehensive — and yet the sense of unease around them has never been louder. Prices creep upward. Catalogs shift under your feet as licensing deals expire. “Your” library is a […]

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Why Major Streaming Services Are Killing the Long Tail of Indie Artists

In 2004, a Wired editor named Chris Anderson looked at the sales data of online retailers and saw the future. Digital shelves were infinite. Freed from the physical constraints of a record store that could only stock the hits, an online catalog could carry everything—and, Anderson argued, the aggregate demand for all the obscure, niche, […]

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SoundCloud vs Spotify: Where Indie Music Finds Its Audience

For an independent artist in 2026, the question is rarely “should I put my music online?” That decision made itself years ago. The real question is more subtle and more consequential: where does my music actually find the people who will care about it, and which platform’s economics reward the way I make and share […]

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